ART

Realist painter Lowell Nesbitt has cut the Corcoran Gallery of Art out of his will. The gallery is the target of a growing artists’ boycott because of its cancellation of a Robert Mapplethorpe show that included explicit photographs of homosexual activity. Nesbitt, 55, a Baltimore native who lives in New York and has no heirs, is leaving the bulk of his multimillion-dollar estate of art and property to the Baltimore Museum of Art. In drawing up his will 20 years ago, he split his estate between the Corcoran and the Baltimore museum to honor former directors of both institutions who supported him in his early years as an artist.