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Three Georgia Politicians Think A Porta-Potty Would Be Better Than Art AIDS America

by Emily Colucci on May 24, 2016
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Who would have thought 90’s nostalgia would have resurrected the Culture Wars? Following the Catholic League’s pearl-clutching over Mark Ryden’s perceived “very anti-Christian and anti-Catholic” paintings at the Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art’s exhibition Turn the Page: The First Ten Years of Hi-Fructose, a group of local Georgia politicians are up in arms over Art AIDS America at the Zuckerman Museum of Art at Kennesaw State University [NSFW image featured]

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The Frieze Talks Are Out and Some of Them are Good

by Leighann Morris on July 18, 2012
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The Frieze talks are finally out and available to download as podcasts. Organized thematically, the series centers on the “atlas” and the way that artists and thinkers map, organize, and describe the world. The selection includes some really boring scholars talking about vaguely interesting subjects for an hour and a half (good luck getting past 30 minutes), directors from the Whitney and MOMA reeling a load of PR bullshit about plans to renovate, and some engaging and half-relevant discussions about the Occupy movement, and artists “in conversation”.

AFC has picked out what to listen to and what to avoid, so that you don’t waste your time listening to 20 hours of recorded footage.

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How Two Vocal Homophobes Are Sodomizing Art: Gertrude Stein Edition

by Whitney Kimball on January 20, 2012
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Remember that crazy-ass homophobe who spearheaded the successful campaign to censor Hide/Seek at the Smithsonian Museum? The same conservative sensationalist, Penny Starr, is now trying to censor a National Portrait Gallery exhibition featuring Gertrude Stein.

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Slideshow: Hide/Seek: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture

by Paddy Johnson and Christopher Schreck on November 21, 2011
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The Brooklyn Museum’s exhibition “Hide/Seek” opened this weekend and we’ve got the slideshow to prove it. The much lauded traveling show about how gender and sexual identity has shaped American portraiture became a point of contention in conservative circles last year after the Catholic League described the piece as an “outrageous use of tax payer money”. In response, Republicans took up the mantel, and Smithsonian Director Wayne Clough removed David Wojnarowicz's video “A Fire in My Belly” from the show at The National Portrait Museum, a move that sparked much criticism.

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[Sponsor] Censoring Wojnarowicz

by Sponsors on March 1, 2011
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In The Life Media, producers of In The Life, the longest running television show documenting the gay experience, have created Censoring Wojnarowicz, an exclusive online video exploring the controversy surrounding the removal of David Wojnarowicz’s “A Fire in My Belly” video installation from the National Portrait Gallery’s Hide/Seek exhibition.

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What AA Bronson Can Gain From A Smithsonian Shit-In

by Paddy Johnson on December 31, 2010
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A few friends and I have been discussing The Smithsonian’s censorship of David Wojnarowicz’s video “A Fire in My Belly” after protests from the right, and AA Bronson’s subsequent request that his work, Felix, be removed from the show “Hide/Seek”. Bronson has been working with a lawyer to get his work back, but has he explored all the options?

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AA Bronson Requests The Smithsonian Remove His Work From Hide/Seek | Show Curators Speak Out Against The Museum | Protest March This Sunday

by Paddy Johnson on December 16, 2010
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Hyperallergic reports that AA Bronson has requested The Smithsonian remove his work “Felix, June 5, 1994” from “Hide/Seek” in protest of the museum’s handling of David Wojnarowicz's “A Fire In My Belly” video. This piece was removed late November after The Smithsonian received complaints from the Catholic League and Rep. John Boehner. Bronson broke the news via facebook

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Curator Dan Cameron on David Wojnarowicz

by Paddy Johnson on December 8, 2010
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House Speaker-designate John Boehner (R-Ohio) and incoming Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) then called for the closing of “Hide/Seek”, the exhibition at Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery, citing the Wojnarowicz’s image of a Jesus statue with ants crawling on it, along with other works with sexual themes as an “outrageous use of taxpayer money”. Well, it’s not and Dan Cameron will tell you why

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