(via Met Envy Apparently Fueled National Gallery of Art’s Interest in Corcoran)
Buried in a Washington Post story about the court appearance of philanthropist Wayne Reynolds, a benefactor to the Corcoran Gallery opposed to its planned integration with the National Gallery of Art and George Washington University, is this gem (emphasis added):
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#19th century American art #Corcoran Gallery of Art #National Gallery of ArtPlans Underway to Break Up Corcoran Gallery in DC
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 city’s largest and oldest private museum, which focuses on American art — has announced a plan that would see it “cease to exist as an independent institution,” the Washington Post reports.
Under the…
(via Corcoran Group Mounts Legal Challenge to National Gallery Deal)
Several concerned parties, including the Save the Corcoran advocacy group, have filed legal briefs seeking to block the Corcoran Gallery of Art’s planned integration with the National Gallery, Washington City Paper reported. The effort, undertaken by faculty, alumni, donors, students, and former staff alleges managerial neglect on the part of the Corcoran’s administration and Trustees.
(via Finding Refuge in Wyeth’s Windows)
Over the course of his career, the 20th century American artist Andrew Wyeth created 300 drawings and paintings of windows that are more about the people looking out them than the views they depict. Sixty of these meticulously crafted studies are on view through the end of November in the National Gallery of Art’s Andrew Wyeth: Looking Out, Looking In — the first show ever exclusively devoted to them.
In Wagstaff: Before and After Mapplethorpe, Philip Gefter’s new biography of collector, curator, and market force Sam Wagstaff, the author argues that it was not only his subject’s life that was transformed by his relationship with Robert Mapplethorpe. Before Mapplethorpe, Gefter writes, photography was “an art world bastard, a utilitarian medium” and an inconsequentiality in the market. According to Gefter, the photography world today, its revered place within the art world, and the photography market as we know it is due at least as much to Wagstaff’s efforts as to those of his contemporary, the more known and lauded John Szarkowski, writer, curator, and Director of Photography at the Museum of Modern Art.
Rolls of Engagement: Photography Goes to War
Thomas Hoepker, German (born 1936), “A US Marine drill sergeant delivers a severe reprimand to a…
(via After Merger, Corcoran Gallery of Art Faces Uncertain Future)
On Saturday, the Corcoran Gallery of Art played host to a guerrilla funeral, not for a generous public figure or beloved artist, but for the institution itself. To outside observers, the funeral trappings — a hired hearse, Victorian mourning garb, a wreath left at William Corcoran’s grave in Oak Hill Cemetery — might seem hyperbolic. But they reflect the real loss felt by current and former faculty, staff, and students, as well as supporters of both the museum and the school, in the face of the institution’s dissolution.
At the Portland Museum of Art in Maine
“The museum building is IM Pei. inside, the art is a mix of 19th-century American art and on one side is one of Maine’s grand early 19th-century mansions and a good modernist building on the other. There’s a special exhibitions space, rotating contemporary exhibitions, and a good classic Pop Art-era Robert Indiana in the basement by the cafe.” —Hrag Vartanian, Hyperallergic’s Editor-in-chief
Single Point Perspective: Dürer’s Doomed Knight
Albrecht Dürer, “Knight, Death and Devil” (1513). Engraving, overall: 9 5/8 x 7 3/8 inches.…
