Rhode Island School of Design's Museum of Art Closes for August, Suffers Layoffs

No one, it seems, is safe from the mighty blow of a ruined economy. We’ve long since lost count of how many museums and other cultural institutions we’ve talked about here who have found themselves in troubled waters. But this one in particular hurts extra bad, because we’ve always been such fans. Caught on Brown University‘s Daily Herald and also recently written about at The Providence Journal, the Rhode Island School of Design‘s Museum of Art is the latest to be hit.