46th Biennial - Brief Article

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: 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 and Victor Burgin?). Corcoran curator Philip Brookman is doing his best to put an end to 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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