For 62 years, the Biennial of Washington's Corcoran Gallery has been a landmark of sorts. It was one of the few competitions to award gold, silver, bronze and copper medals to U.S. painters. Dignitaries attended it, men of probity sat on its juries. Unfortunately, the show often ended up as a hodgepodge of paintings submitted by amateur and professional artists of every conceivable age and stripe. The result was a tradition of timidity.
Last week the Corcoran opened its 31st Biennial, and it proved to be a radical change from its predecessors. Other...
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