Opinion
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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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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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
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Warhol Foundation wants Wojnarowicz brought back to Hide/Seek … Smithsonian says no … Catholics for Choice weigh in …
Art
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
Opinion
As the Smithsonian censorship of David Wojnarowicz's “A Fire in My Belly” video continues to make waves, it's important to remember that the decision was made not by National Portrait Gallery staff, but by the absentee Smithsonian secretary. A leaked memo drafted by Portrait Gallery director Martin
Interview
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
We've all been curious about what David Wojnarowicz' video looks like installed in the lobby of the New Museum. Well, check it out! Click through for more photos.
Interview
When the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery announced that it would be removing “A Fire in My Belly,” a David Wojnarowicz video work, from its Hide/Seek exhibition due to Republican political pressure, the art world rushed to the work's defense. Among the first art institutions to respond to th
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Two activists were detained by police on Saturday at the National Portrait Gallery after showing David Wojnarowicz's "A Fire in My Belly" on an iPad inside the museum. Both activists were ejected and subsequently banned for life from any Smithsonian Institution facility. D.C. residents Mike Blasens
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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
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