Over the years, she also worked on a major research project focused on the work of American sculptor and land artist De Maria, who passed away in 2013. Her chronology-containing monograph, Walter De Maria: The Object, the Action, the Aesthetic Feeling, will be published this fall by Gagosian Gallery and her Rizzoli.
During her later years in Los Angeles, Corcoran’s one-bedroom condominium in Century City became her own salon and the venue for numerous home-cooked dinners and other gatherings that drew a large cross-section of the art world from Los Angeles. . from.
“Guests wrap tightly around the large dinner table in the center of the room, crammed into the small sitting area nearby, stand cheek-to-cheek in the entryway and bedroom, and spill out onto the small terrace on the driveway or the pool far below. Balance on the edge of the bathtub if necessary.” Written by Christopher Knight, art critic of the Los Angeles Times. He added, “David Hockney was secretly allowed to smoke.”
Rusha, who has known Corcoran for decades, said in an email:
Ms. Corcoran hated nostalgia and didn’t settle for the last time to reinvent herself. But when she reconfigured the shop at her museum in her county in Los Angeles, she believes that a fundamental ingredient to selling her books is to actually bring in real-time readers. she said.
“There were no customers, so I don’t want to go back to the old days of having lunch inside,” she said. “But I want to do that version today because I want to have a dialogue. Art is art and everything is connected.”