The Robert Mapplethorpe exhibition was canceled on June 13, 1989. Now, a new exhibition confronts that fateful decision.

We talk to Rob Rogers about his upcoming D.C. show.

We tip our hat to Grammar.police for pointing us to a May 1 piece in the Post we missed when we were on vacation where Blake Gopnik pushed the idea of renaming the Corcoran Gallery of Art to bring in more visitors. Saying the current Corcoran name has an identity problem, Gopnik suggests a name promoting it as a national center of photography: You could even imagine that the Corcoran Museum of Photography — why…

A standoff between activists and the police at a closed men’s shelter in Southeast D.C. ended yesterday when police arrested the remaining protestors. The activists had moved into the structure on Thursday, Nov. 25 to protest the sale of the building to the Corcoran Museum of Art. The City plans to sell the former school to the museum for $6.2 million. After the Randall Homeless shelter closed earlier in November, the city opened up 150…

(Compiled by Cyndi Spain) >> Doug Wilson of “Trading Spaces” fame will be at the Corcoran Museum of Art at 7 p.m. for a talk & book signing. The fee for listening to his kernels of design wisdom is $18 for general public and $15 for Corcoran members. While there, check out “Figuratively Speaking: The Human Form in American Art, 1770-1950,” a new exhibit featuring sculpture and paintings from the Corcoran’s permanent collections. >> “Book…

If you thought you couldn’t get enough of Frank Gehry by staring at models and renderings of the proposed wing at the Corcoran Museum of Art, head on over to 17th Street, as the museum opened today a new exhibition on the furniture of the Los Angeles architect. “The Furniture of Frank Gehry” runs through Nov. 15. The exhibition features work Gehry has done for three designers, Knoll, Heller and Vitra. Does any of this…