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Whether it achieved its goal of preserving the legacy of the Corcoran Gallery is debatable, but the landmark agreement that broke apart Washington’s oldest private museum has been an absolute bonanza for the National Gallery of Art.

After its board of trustees approves the next round of acquisitions on Oct. 1, the National Gallery of Art will have accessioned about 40 percent of the Corcoran’s collection, including priceless pieces by Edgar Degas, Frederic Edwin Church, John Singer Sargent and Carrie Mae Weems.

The University Museum of Contemporary Art is marking its 40th anniversary with of “40 Years/40 Artists,” featuring the work of artists whose exhibitions at the museum―at crucial moments in their careers―had the effect of opening up dialogue about ideas relevant to contemporary art and society.

The artists include Andy Warhol, Daniel Buren, Joel Shapiro, William Wegman, Dawoud Bey, Miroslaw Balka, Tom Friedman, David Goldblatt, Joel Sternfeld, Jenny Holzer, Kimsooja, LaToya Ruby Frazier, and Carrie Mae Weems, as well as architects Billie Tsien and Tod Williams, among many other renowned local, national and international artists.

Conceived as a challenge to long-standing conventional wisdom, "Creating the Future: Art and Los Angeles in the 1970s" (on-sale September 9th, 2014) examines the premise that the progress of art in Los Angeles ceased during the 1970s—after the decline of the Ferus Gallery, the scattering of its stable of artists (Robert Irwin, Ed Kienholz, Ed Moses, Ed Rusha and others), and the economic struggles throughout the decade—and didn’t resume until sometime around 1984 when Mark Tansey, Alison Saar, Judy Fiskin, Carrie Mae Weems, David Salle, Manuel Ocampo, among others, became stars in an exploding art market. However, this is far from the reality of the L.A. art scene in the 1970s.

The passing of those fashionable 1960s-era icons, in fact, enabled the development of a chaotic array of outlandish and independent voices, marginalized communities, and energetic, sometimes bizarre visions that thrived during the stagnant 1970s. Fallon’s narrative describes and celebrates, through twelve thematically arranged chapters, the wide range of intriguing artists and the world they created.

LA-based photography non-profit the Lucie Foundation has announced the six photographers to be honored with its 12th annual Lucie Awards. During the November 2 ceremony at Carnegie Hall, Carrie Mae Weems will be honored for fine arts, Nan Goldin for portraiture, Martin Parr for documentary, and Nick Ut for photojournalism. Jane Bown will receive the Lifetime Achievement award and Pedro Meyer will be given the Visionary Award.

For the second year in a row, Dior will sponsor the Guggenheim International Gala.

The annual benefit is a two-night event that is scheduled to take place on Nov. 5 and 6 in New York City. This year, the event, which is often referred to as GIG, will honor Carrie Mae Weems, whose retrospective was on view at the Guggenheim last spring, as well as Heinz Mack, Otto Piene and Günther Uecker of the German artist group Zero and Beijing-based contemporary artist Wang Jianwei, WWD reported. Zero's work will be featured in "Zero: Countdown to Tomorrow, 1950s-60s" from Oct. 10 to Jan. 7, and Jianwei will be the focus of the exhibition "Wang Jianwei: Time Temple," which will be on view from Oct. 31 to Feb. 16.