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# DC Arts Community Protests Smithsonian Censorship (Photos)
- URL: https://hyperallergic.com/photos-dc-protest-smithsonian/
- Published: 2010-12-03T17:36:37.000Z
- Updated: 2025-11-24T15:49:06.000Z
- Description: About 150 protesters assembled at in the brisk cold outside Transformer's gallery space before marching to the National Portrait Gallery in Chinatown. That's not a small number: More than 100 people standing up for the memory of David Wojnarowicz and the sanctity of the museum as a space free from p
- Author: Hrag Vartanian
- Tags: News, #image-position-hidden, Censorship, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2025-11-17 09:23 (2009-2011)

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An artistic action by protestors on the steps of the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, DC (photo by Natalie Cheung)

We get this first-hand report from [Kriston Capps](http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/artsdesk/author/kcapps/?ref=hyperallergic.com), critic for *Washington City Paper* about last night’s DC protest against the Smithsonian’s censorship:

> About 150 protesters assembled at in the brisk cold outside [Transformer](http://www.transformergallery.org/?ref=hyperallergic.com)‘s gallery space before marching to the National Portrait Gallery in Chinatown. That’s not a small number: More than 100 people standing up for the memory of David Wojnarowicz and the sanctity of the museum as a space free from politics. These protesters stood up for LGBT rights.

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2010/12/action.jpg)

Artistic action participants outside the Capitol (photo by Natalie Cheung)

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2010/12/artistic-action-at-transformer.jpg)

Artistic action participants gathering outside Transformer (photo by Natalie Cheung)