News
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
Art
When I saw that the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery chose to remove David Wojnarowicz' “A Fire in My Belly” from its Hide/Seek exhibition following Republican political pressure, I was embarrassed and a little confused for the museum. Isn't it the job of the art world to stand up to those wh
News
A Facebook post is sometimes a dangerous thing. When Artinfo's “What's Troubling about the Smithsonian's Gay Art Show [http://www.artinfo.com/news/story/36233/whats-troubling-about-the-smithsonians-gay-art-show/],” re-titled “What's Troubling About the Smithsonian's Hide/Seek Show,” article was post
News
A few paragraphs in the New Yorker story about the Tea Party-funding Koch brothers should scare the hell out of you and make you wonder if the Smithsonian has gone to far.