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At Gagosian gallery on December 23rd, black-shirted figures stood in front of Anselm Kiefer's enigmatic, monumental sculptures. Wearing shirts inscribed with “Next year in Jerusalem,” the protesters were attempting to continue Keifer's political dialogue. Gallery employees didn't agree and tried to
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Another New York museum has removed its photography ban in galleries. This time the Museum of Arts and Design (aka MAD) is the latest institutions to join the ranks of MoMA and other major art institutions that welcome photography in their galleries, though some restrictions may apply to specific wo
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Fighting the perception that all Catholics are as conservative as those espoused in William Donohue's Catholic League call for the Smithsonian to remove David Wojnarowicz's “A Fire in My Belly” from Hide/Seek, Catholics United has begun a petition calling for closer scrutiny Donohue's organization.
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At the Boston Museum of Fine Arts' new Wing of the Americas, the story of American art is told over the course of four floors, ranging from colonial and indigenous art through modernism. Stopping before contemporary, the third floor above ground level is the home of American modernism. The opening g
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BushwickBK's Stephen Truax, who also contributes to this blogazine, reports on Luhring Augustine's new Bushwick space [http://bushwickbk.com/2010/12/20/chelsea-gallery-buys-into-bushwick/]: > "The new building is primarily going to be our storage facility, but we hope > to have at least a quarter o
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In an email posted on Newsgrist, artist AA Bronson, who asked that his portrait of Felix Partz be removed from the Smithsonian's Hide/Seek exhibition following the censorship, suggests to director Martin Sullivan that his piece be removed to make room for the Wojnarowicz video.
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A protest is slated to take place on Sun Dec 19 at 1pm EST at New York's Metropolitan Museum. We have links to a handy flyer and a protest action kit!
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Some answers are finally surfacing after a week of the LA MOCA controversy. Recently an email between the censored street artist Blu and renowned graffiti photographer Henry Chalfant has been posted online. Blu has confirmed to me via email that the text is real, and Chalfant has said he will provid
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Al-Jazeera reports [http://english.aljazeera.net/photo_galleries/middleeast/2010113011444886787.html] that the once vibrant center of Jewish life in Beirut, Lebanon, and the city's largest and oldest surving synagogue, Magen Abraham is being restored by private donations, including from local Muslim
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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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Artist Blu has just blogged about his surprise that the word "censorship" is disappearing from the discussion of his whitewashed mural and being replaced by the word "curatorial choice." He also reveals why the mural isn't as finished as some of his other work …
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New York-based artist and artistic director of the Institute of Art, Religion and Social Justice AA Bronson has sent an email to the National Portrait Gallery requesting that his work "Felix, June 5, 1994" (1994/99) [pictured above] be removed from their Hide/Seek exhibition in light of the recent c