CORCORAN MUSEUM JOB CUTS

The Corcoran Gallery of Art, in Washington, has laid off three curators and two other department heads in a restructuring announced Thursday, reports The Washington Post. The dismissals come one month before Paul Greenhalgh begins as the new director and president of the institution. Mr. Greenhalgh replaces David C. Levy who resigned as director after the board announced in May that it did not raise enough money to begin building a new wing designed by Frank Gehry. The gallery released a statement that said the job cuts were “a minor restructuring of the institution to create additional efficiencies” and added that: “For the Corcoran, this is not part of a larger downsizing plan.”