The Rose Art Museum’s director, Michael Rush, has said its closure would be “like a death.” Jeff Weinstein asks: “Can a museum, or any cultural institution, die? I’d like to propose that the answer is yes. But I don’t mean that a museum or concert hall dies merely when it goes out of business or the walls get knocked down. The core of my reasoning is personal. If the Rose and its art were to go, a serious part of me would mourn, and as far as I’m concerned, mourning is incontrovertible evidence that something alive and important has passed away.”