Andrew, I'm disappointed you're not going to "engineer" a "leaf burial performance" of their "neighbour". Here's a link to a recent article which traces the decline of the Corcoran back to the notorious cancellation of a Robert Mapplethorpe exhibition: http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/display.php?id=8297 Have managed to witness a number of in-person appearances by photographers at Tommy The Cork's bottle over the years, but not much recently except anxiety over whether I'm going to miss a long-delayed in-person screening by Phil Solomon. The money to host readings by out-of-town writers was eliminated years ago. Barry On Wed, 24 Oct 2007 20:05:15 +0800, andrew burke <[log in to unmask]> wrote: >Ah, some lovely stuff on display ... A neat site indeed - much more for me >to view later. Thanks. > >Is Sir Les Patterson our Cultural Attache there, too? A true Australian! > >Andrew > > >On 24/10/2007, Barry Alpert <[log in to unmask]> wrote: >> >> Andrew, >> >> The most promising neighbour for your implied purposes would certainly be >> the Corcoran College of Art & Design: >> >> http://www.corcoran.org/ >> >> If you flaunt your exotic credentials, enlist the assistance of the >> Australian cultural attache, & find the appropriate context in which to >> advertise what you should call a commission, you might be able to enlist >> Corcoran students in a "leaf performance". >> >> Barry >> >> >> On Wed, 24 Oct 2007 10:07:10 +0800, andrew burke <[log in to unmask]> >> wrote: >> >> >Suburban guerilla warfare - great to see it flourish! Does the White >> House >> >have neighbours? >> > >> >Andrew