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Painter Chris Martin Goes Really Big in DC
I’m as big of a Chris Martin fan as vlogger and writer James Kalm (aka painter Loren Munk), so the video he just uploaded on YouTube of Martin’s new solo museum show — his first — at the Corcoran...
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Watcher from the Skies: Richard Diebenkorn’s Ocean Park Series
Richard Diebenkorn, “Untitled (Ocean Park)” (1986), charcoal and ink on paper, 17 5/8 x 37 1/8 inches (© and courtesy the Richard Diebenkorn Foundation)Beginning in 1968, in an act of governmental...
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Corcoran Students Install Giant “4 SALE” Signs to Protest Potential Sale
Corcoran students pose with their protest installation on the school’s facade (all images courtesy Katherine Macyshyn)A series of photos posted on Tumblr a few hours ago show a creative protest against...
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Corcoran Isn’t Selling Its Historic Building, But May Seek Institutional...
The Corcoran Gallery of Art (Image via visitingdc.com)Washington, DC’s Corcoran Gallery of Art will be remaining in its historic building after all, backing off from plans it had been developing to...
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Rolls of Engagement: Photography Goes to War
Thomas Hoepker, German (born 1936), “A US Marine drill sergeant delivers a severe reprimand to a recruit, Parris Island, South Carolina,” from the series US Marine Corps boot camp, 1970, 1970, inkjet...
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End of the Corcoran? New Plan Would Dissolve the Gallery
The Corcoran Gallery’s Beaux-Arts building, designed by Ernest Flagg (photo by Laura Padgett, via art around on Flickr)After years of financial crisis, Washington, DC’s Corcoran Gallery of Art — the...
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Corcoran Merger with George Washington University and National Gallery Finalized
The Corcoran Gallery’s beaux-arts building, designed by Ernest Flagg (photo by Laura Padgett, via art around on Flickr)The Corcoran Gallery of Art’s absorption into George Washington University (GWU)...
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Corcoran Group Mounts Legal Challenge to National Gallery Deal
The Corcoran Gallery’s beaux-arts building (photo by Laura Padgett/Flickr)Several concerned parties, including the Save the Corcoran advocacy group, have filed legal briefs seeking to block the...
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Met Envy Apparently Fueled National Gallery of Art’s Interest in Corcoran
Albert Bierstadt, “The Last of the Buffalo” (c. 1888), from the collection of the Corcoran Gallery of Art (image via Wikipedia)Buried in a Washington Post story about the court appearance of...
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Mapplethorpe’s Other Man
Sam Wagstaff, “Self-Portraits” (1973) (courtesy Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles) In Wagstaff: Before and After Mapplethorpe, Philip Gefter’s new biography of collector, curator, and market force...
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More Than a Year After the Dissolution of the Corcoran, Its Art School Still...
A sign pointing to the location of the old Corcoran Gallery and School of Art building. (photo by J B/Flickr) WASHINGTON, DC — Maeve McCool vividly remembers when she first learned that the Corcoran...
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Corcoran Gallery Gives More Than 10,000 Artworks to DC Institutions
The exterior of the Corcoran Gallery in Washington, DC (photo by Carol M. Highsmith, via Wikimedia Commons) The saga of the dissolution of the Corcoran Gallery of Art seems to have come to a close,...
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