Style Blog: Support for "Kunsthalle" proposal grows

Several key players have lined up in support of a local art collector's plan to convert the Franklin School, at 13th and K Streets NW, into a space for temporary art exhibitions--a local version of the "kunsthalle" idea. Dani Levinas's proposed Institute for Contemporary Expression, one of four ideas under consideration as the city looks to reopen the shuttered historic school building, has attracted interest from local arts groups, and even more critically, from the Advisory Neighborhood Commis...