All posts tagged "national portrait gallery"
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Removed “Crucifix” Video Leads Pair to Protest — With Video Camera in Tow
Michael Iacovone and Mike Blasenstein were not happy when they found out that David Wojnarowicz’s video, “A Fire in the Belly,” had been removed from...
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Déjà View
I was still a fresh-faced newcomer to D.C. 21 years ago when the Robert Mapplethorpe controversy erupted in Congress and the Corcoran museum. The famed...
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Show and Tell
Jonathan D. Katz was literally thrown out of New York's Guggenheim Museum in 2005. Katz, at the time the founding director of Lesbian and Gay...
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The National Portrait Gallery’s Gay Exhibit
Hide/Seek: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture is the first major museum exhibition to focus on the questions of gender and sexual identity in the...
