A court fight is quickly escalating over the future of the Corcoran Gallery of Art. Two weeks after the gallery’s trustees asked a judge to approve a plan that involved transferring control of the museum’s building, art and school, a group of faculty, students and others—represented by Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher—filed papers opposing the deal.
The Corcoran has struggled financially for years. Under the trustees’ proposal, George Washington University would take over the museum’s building and art college, and most of the art would go to the National Gallery of Art. The trustees, represented by Paul Hastings and Washington’s Julyan & Julyan, filed a petition in District of Columbia Superior Court on June 17 asking a judge to sign off on the deal.
