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Warhol Threatens to Cease Funding Smithsonian Exhibits

Warhol Foundation wants Wojnarowicz brought back to Hide/Seek … Smithsonian says no … Catholics for Choice weigh in …

Opinion

Where Is the Art World Wikileaks?

Some of us have been thinking the [http://twitter.com/hragv/status/13681350116638721] same thing [http://community.nytimes.com/comments/artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/12/13/los-angeles-museum-of-contemporary-art-deems-mural-inappropriate/?permid=3#comment3]. Since the art world depends on tight-lip

Opinion

MOCA's Delayed Response to Blu Mural Removal [UPDATE 2]

MOCA has emailed their version of why the Blu mural came down to Vandalog, the street art blog. We discover that Deitch was involved in the removal of the mural but some questions remain …

Art

Should Smithsonian Replace Wojnarowicz Video?

The Smithsonian's decision to remove David Wojnarowicz's “A Fire in My Belly” video from its Hide/Seek exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery is already made and done. The piece is gone, but it has popped up in a number of other locations, including a display at the New Museum and Transformer G

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Mural Too Controversial for LA's MOCA? [UPDATED]

If you thought the march of street art into the American museum world was going to be easy, think again. LA's MOCA museum is gearing up for their much trumpeted Art in the Street exhibition that will take place next year and feature lots and lots of street art, but yesterday the Museum that commissi

Art

Announcing International "Draw Jesus Day" on Dec 26!

We're classy, so in response to the GOP's attack on David Wojnarowicz's "A Fire In My Belly" video, we want to go head to head with the fascists in the American right-wing political establishment and announce that their irrational frenzy has encouraged us to announce the "International Draw Jesus Da

Interview

Interview with Hide/Seek Co-curator David C Ward

David C. Ward is co-curator of the National Portrait Gallery's Hide/Seek: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture [http://www.npg.si.edu/exhibit/exhhide.html] exhibition, which has become a lightning rod for right-wing attacks on the federally funded Smithsonian institution. The show is the fi

Opinion

Julian Assange Is a 21st Century Marat

An Australian internet activist named Julian Assange (bio [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_Assange]) exposes top secret American diplomacy on an international website. He's profiled last June in The New Yorker by Raffi Khatchadourian, photographed by Phillip Toledano [http://hyperallergic.tumblr

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DC Arts Community Protests Smithsonian Censorship (Photos)

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

Opinion

Smithsonian Cowering From Idiots (video)

On a recent RT America segment [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=io4ydriHDUU], a Catholic League spokesperson is calling David Wojnarowicz's "A Fire in My Belly" video anti-Christian and compares ants on Jesus to "putting a swastika on a synagogue." The video was part of the Smithsonian's Hide/Seek ex

Opinion

And Now a Message from Jesus to the Smithsonian

In light of the recent censorship removal of an ant-covered Jesus video [http://hyperallergic.com/13726/smithsonian-dangerous-precedent/] by the Smithsonian Museum, we wanted to make one thing clear and we couldn't think of a better way to do it then with Johnny Phoenix's "A Note to All the Indigeno

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Smithsonian Caves to GOP Pressure, Removes Ant-Covered Jesus Video

The National Portrait Gallery has caved under Republican political pressure and removed a potentially “offensive” video work by David Wojnarowicz, a multi-media artist who was felled by AIDS in 1992, from its Hide/Seek exhibition. The exhibition, deemed brave and important by critics, uncovers previ