46th Biennial.CORCORAN GALLERY OF ART Corcoran Gallery of Art: see under Corcoran, William Wilson. Call it trickle-down aesthetics: Word has finally reached Washington that there's more to life than painting. The Corcoran's 46th Biennial, "Media/Metaphor: New Stories in Contemporary Art," is the first to show video, film, installation, and, yes, computer work, on a parity with the oldest of arts. Still, the choice of painters suggests a point of view (Close, Reed, Yuskavage), while the potpourri of artists working in other media seems more up for grabs (Nan Goldin Nan Goldin (born 1953) is a notable American fine-art and documentary photographer. Biography Goldin was born in Washington, D.C. and grew up in the DC area suburbs in Maryland, but ran away from home and was fostered by a variety of families. and Victor Burgin Victor Burgin (born 1941) is an artist and a writer. Burgin was born in Sheffield in England. He studied art at the Royal College of Art, in London,from 1962 to 1965 (A.R.C.A., 1st Class, 1965) before going to the United States to study at Yale University (M.F.A. 1967). ?). Corcoran curator Philip Brookman is doing his best to put an end to to destroy. - Fuller. See also: End business as usual at this most conservative of the institutional biennials. We'll see if he manages to drag DC above the cultural poverty line. Dec. 9, 2000- Mar. 5, 2001. |
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