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The American Evolution
A History through Art
Through July 27, 2008
A display of nearly 200 objects from the Corcoran Gallery
of Art’s world-renowned collection of American art, The
American Evolution: A History through Art focuses
on five overarching themes that have shaped American
culture: Money, Land, Politics, Cultural Exchange,
and The Modern World. These themes are fundamental
to the way that the United States has developed, and
to the stories we tell about ourselves. From Gilbert
Stuart’s stately 18th-century portrait of George Washington
to Andy Warhol’s irreverent 1973 likeness of the Chinese
leader Mao Zedong, and from Frederic Edwin Church’s
dramatic 1857 view from the brink of Niagara Falls
to Richard Diebenkorn’s 1975 abstract rendering of
the suburban expanses of Ocean Park, California, The
American Evolution explores many of the ways that
American life and art have evolved over 250 years.
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Access to Life
Through July 20, 2008
Access to Life pictures the lives of AIDS patients in nine countries before and after they receive free treatment. Photographed by Jonas Bendiksen, Jim Goldberg, Alex Majoli, Steve McCurry, Paolo Pellegrin, Gilles Peress, Eli Reed, and Larry Towell and curated by William Horrigan, director of media arts at the Wexner Center for the Arts, The Ohio State University, the exhibition is a collaborative project between the legendary agency Magnum Photos, and The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria.
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From the Permanent Collection:
Sight/Insight
People and Places, Recent Acquisitions of Photography
and Media Arts
Through September 15, 2008
As part of an ongoing series of photography collection
exhibitions, Sight/Insight: People and Places,
Recent Acquisitions of Photography and Media Arts celebrates
the collectors and donors who continue to enrich the
collection of the Corcoran Gallery of Art. Presenting
contemporary and traditional works along with experimental
and conventional subjects, this exhibition reveals
the diversity that has come to typify the photographic
portrait and landscape. With an often-humanist perspective,
many of these pictures call attention to political
and cultural life, collective histories and personalities,
and race, gender, and class issues, as well as the
experimental nature of the photographic medium. Featuring
artists like Shimon Attie, Brassaï (Gyula Halasz),
William Christenberry, Kenneth Josephson, Mary Ellen
Mark, Richard Misrach, Zwelethu Mthethwa, Adi Nes,
Torborn Rodland, Shomei Tomatsu, and Minor White, among
others, this exhibition explores the breadth of the
Corcoran’s expanding collection.
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Treasures of European
Decorative Art and Sculpture
On View Now
This exhibition features major works of European decorative
arts from the Corcoran’s permanent collection.
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The European Landscape
On View Now
This exhibition features landscape paintings from the
17th to 19th centuries by major artists from the permanent
collection of the Corcoran and will explore themes
of idealism, romanticism, and realism.
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College Exhibitions:
You Won’t Believe Your Eyes
23rd Annual Printmaking Portfolio, 2008
Corcoran College of Art + Design
Through July 21
Both Bachelor of Fine Arts and Continuing Education students, as well as faculty and guest artists, participated in this year’s printmaking portfolio. The project’s theme, You Won’t Believe Your Eyes, speaks to the increasing difficulty of trusting what we see; it is no longer true that seeing is believing.
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