CORCORAN GALLERY OF ART Call it trickle-down aesthetics: Word has finally reached Washington that there's more to life than painting.CORCORAN GALLERY OF ART 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: fresh Stories in Contemporary Art," is the first to point out video, film, installation, and, ye computer work, in succession a parity with the oldest of arts. Still, the choice of painters prompts a point of view (Close Re Yuskavage), while the potpourri of artists working in other media have the appearances more up for grabs (Nan Goldin and Victor Burgin?). Corcoran curator Philip Brookman is doing his best to set an end to business as usual at this greatest in number conservative of the institutional biennials. We'll view if he manages to drag DC above the cultural pauperism line. Dec. 9, 2000- Mar. 5 2001 COPYRIGHT 2000 Artforum International Magazine, Inc. |
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