The Corcoran Gallery of Art is considering leaving its longtime home at 17th Street and New York Avenue NW, according to three sources at the museum.
The sources said the institution's board will vote on a plan to put the Corcoran's Beaux-Arts building up for sale. Besides those sources, several current and former trustees confirmed the [...]

The National Building Museum announced this morning that it will institute an admission fee starting Monday, June 27. In an internal memo quoted in a press release, executive director Chase W. Rynd said the new policy is a response to economic pressures.
“Over the past few years, the recession has been particularly devastating for the [...]

A theme ties these books together, even though I wasn't looking for one while reading them. They're all about "I," or perhaps  "me, Me, ME!"
You'd expect an autobiography like Jules Feiffer's Backing Into Forward: A Memoir (Doubleday, $30) to be all about its author—and it mostly is, but it's also idiosyncratic. While Feiffer says the [...]