ART

Washington Director Resigns: Jock Reynolds, director of the Washington Project for the Arts for the last six years and a key player in the summer censorship controversy that gripped the National Endowment for the Arts, resigned Thursday to become director of the Addison Gallery of American Art on the campus of Phillips Academy in Andover, Mass. Officials said Reynolds, who had been at the Addison Gallery on sabbatical since September, had quit to explore new challenges at Phillips Academy, of which he is a graduate. Earlier this year, Reynolds and WPA accepted a show of work by photographer Robert Mapplethorpe after Washington’s Corcoran Gallery of Art canceled it in an ill-fated attempt at political appeasement of conservatives in Congress.