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Art

A Loose History of Misbehaving

Curated by Scott Hug, B-Out at Andrew Edlin Gallery, weaves together over 100 artists into an imaginative installation that illustrates a partial and subjective history of what it means to create outside the norm.

Interview

The Dirty Scene of Downtown New York

From artist David Wojnarowicz's glasses to advertisements for the Pyramid Club in the zine the East Village Eye, signs from Bronx nonprofit Fashion Moda to flyers advertising performances by punk and No Wave legends Richard Hell, Lydia Lunch and Patti Smith, the Fales Library and Special Collections

Art

Political Pressure Censors Artwork And Creates Unexpected Spectacle

I feel naïve to have thought that art offered one of the only scared spaces to be freely expressive. Two weeks ago, I wrote a post that attempted to diplomatically depict the controversial saga that has unfolded over artist Brett Murray’s “The Spear”, a Communist propaganda style portrayal of South

Art

Gay Sex, Art and Nostalgia on the New York Waterfront

While at The Piers: Art and Sex along the New York Waterfront at the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art, one question kept popping up in my mind: What is with this obsessive nostalgia for the decaying, destroyed and often depressing New York of the past, particularly as connected to the eme

Art

When Controversy and Failure Become Art

In the exhibition Canceled: Alternative Manifestations and Productive Failures at the Center for Book Arts, the documents, language and narrative of controversy, censorship and failure become a new form of work to consider.

Art

Always Here, Always Queer and Art History Is Starting to Get Used To It

While at the landmark exhibition Hide/Seek: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture at the Brooklyn Museum, I realized I had to start my review with a statement that will look simple and quite possibly stupid: Hide/Seek is more than David Wojnarowicz's "A Fire In My Belly."

Opinion

NY Catholic Group Wants Brooklyn Museum to Cut Wojnarowicz Video from Show

Here we go again. Almost a year after the controversy at the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery, Catholic groups in New York have started to raise alarm over David Wojnarowicz's "A Fire In My Belly" (1986-7) that will appear in the Brooklyn version of Hide/Seek.

Opinion

David Wojnarowicz's Journals Make His Private World Very Public

Just in time for National Coming Out Day last Tuesday and the November opening of the controversial Hide/Seek: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture at the Brooklyn Museum, Triple Canopy has published a selection of visual artist and writer David Wojnarowicz's journals online. Giving readers

News

Smithsonian Censor Wins Muzzle Award

The Thomas Jefferson Center for the Protection of Free Expression has given out one of its annual “Jefferson Muzzle” awards to Smithsonian Secretary G. Wayne Clough for his removal of David Wojnarowicz's “A Fire in My Belly” video and censoring of Hide/Seek at the National Portrait Gallery. That's o

Art

Going Contemporary at the Armory

If the art world has been about globalism for quite a while I can say that is more true now than ever — if that's possible.

Announcement

[Sponsor] Censoring Wojnarowicz

In The Life Media, producers of In The Life, the longest running television show documenting the gay experience, have created Censoring Wojnarowicz, an exclusive online video exploring the controversy surrounding the removal of David Wojnarowicz's “A Fire in My Belly” video installation from the Nat

News

Art Positive Requests Smithsonian Wojnarowicz Installation Shots

Bill Dobbs, representing anti-censorship organization Art Positive, has sent a letter to Smithsonian director Martin Sullivan requesting that the museum release the original installation shots of David Wojnarowicz's “A Fire in My Belly,” as well as photos of the gallery as it now stands, minus the v