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When I heard about the Smithsonian's upcoming video game exhibition, I was filled with a sense of dread upon reading the press release's bolded title: “Smithsonian American Art Museum Invites Public to Vote on Games to be Featured in “The Art of Video Games” Exhibition”. They tout the voting like it
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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
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If you, like I did, logged on to the internets this morning and noticed something about the Natural History Museum being on fire, don't worry: it's not the museum that's on fire, it's their facilities building. Bad, but not catastrophic. Phew.
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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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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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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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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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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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Last Thursday January 13, there was a panel discussion at LA's Fowler Museum titled "How Does Street Art Humanize Cities?" Organized with Zócalo, the event featured curators, artists, and reporters, most of whom were associated in some way with the LA MOCA's upcoming street art exhibition, yet to ev
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The New York Times announced today that the Museum of Modern Art has acquired David Wojnarowicz's “A Fire in My Belly,” including both the artist-cut 7 minute version and the 13 minute full work. The acquisition pays testament to the work's newfound significance after being censored from the Smithso
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On November 30, 1994, choreographer Bill T. Jones’s experimental dance piece “Still/Here” opened at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. The work featured live dancers performing in front of video footage of terminally ill people discussing their sicknesses. Nearly a month later, dance critic Arlene Croce
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Kriston Capps reports that the iPad protesters previously banned from the Smithsonian are returning to the site of their crimes. This time, artists Michael Blasenstein and Michael Iacovone will stage a fully legal protest by parking a trailer outside the National Portrait Gallery and screening Wojna