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Contract Workers at Smithsonian Protest Low Wages

Some 50 food service workers at the Smithsonian museums went on strike yesterday, in protest of their less-than-livable wages, but the institution tried to spin the story.

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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

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Smithsonian Regents Board Report Waffles on Controversy; Clough Won't Go [UPDATED]

The Smithsonian Board of Regents met on January 31st with Smithsonian Secretary G. Wayne Clough to discuss the fallout from the recent censorship scandal at the National Portrait Gallery. In its released report, the Board fails to make a strong statement against the censorship but suggests several w

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Jan 31 Protest Will Confront Smithsonian Board Meeting

The Smithsonian's Board of Regents, the highest administrative body of the organization, will be meeting on Monday January 31st with Smithsonian Secretary G. Wayne Clough to discuss his decision to censor David Wojnarowicz's “A Fire in My Belly” from the National Portrait Gallery's Hide/Seek exhibit

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Protesters Stage 'Funeral Procession of Free Artistic Expression' in LA Against Smithsonian Censorship

Los Angeles — With a cardboard cross and draped coffin, a group of activists and artists assembled in front of downtown LA's Millennium Biltmore Hotel to stage a “Funeral Procession of Free Artistic Expression,” where Smithsonian Secretary Wayne Clough was speaking as part of the Town Hall Los Angel

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As Protests Take Place in LA, a Smithsonian Secretary Clough Update [UPDATED]

Today is the day that Smithsonian Secretary Wayne Clough is going to face the press in Los Angeles to answer questions related to the Wojnarowicz censorship case. I'm sure there will be lots of news from the event, particularly since LA Raw will be protesting [http://hyperallergic.com/17125/la-raw-p

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Tomorrow LA Raw Staging Protest Against Smithsonian Secretary

Los Angeles-based art protest group LA Raw will be staging a Funeral Procession for Freedom of Expression [http://laraw-art.blogspot.com/2011/01/protest-escalating-art-censorship-from.html] on Thursday, January 20, 2011 (11:00 AM) at the Biltmore Hotel (506 South Grand Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90071)

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Smithsonian's Censorship Gaffe Continues to Snowball

Two new developments in the Wojnarowicz Censorship case since we last reported on the Hide/Seek show and its problems with government censorship and a Smithsonian Secretary who just can't say sorry … Washington Post's Philip Kenicott is asking for Secretary G. Wayne Clough to resign … collector Jim

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Why Secretary Clough Won't Leave the Smithsonian

The scandal that erupted when the Smithsonian's secretary G. Wayne Clough decided to remove David Wojnarowicz's “A Fire in My Belly” from the National Portrait Gallery's Hide/Seek exhibition under Republican political pressure shows no sign of calming down. Only in the past week, the Warhol Foundati

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Smithsonian Director Unrepentant, Curator Talks “American Taliban,” Catholic League Gets a Beer

At a conversation held with Hide/Seek curators Jonathan Katz and David C. Ward at the New York Public Library December 15th, a few things became clear about the censorship scandal: Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery director Martin Sullivan is far from repentant over the decision, and the Catholi

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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