December 2010
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Dec 15th
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Reinstall Wojnarowicz Video.
On December 1st, David Wojnarowicz’s video “A Fire in my Belly” was yanked from an exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, DC, Hide/Seek: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture.  ”A Fire in My Belly” contains some challenging images: mummified bodies, bloody icons, lips being sewn shut, and 11 seconds of ants crawling on a crucifix....
Dec 15th
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Dec 15th
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At last
Warhol Foundation Threatens to End Financing of Smithsonian Exhibitions By KATE TAYLOR for the New York Times The Andy Warhol Foundation is threatening to stop its financing of Smithsonian Institution exhibitions if the institution does not restore a work of art that wasremoved from an exhibition after it drew attacks by the head of the Catholic League and some Republican members of Congress....
Dec 14th
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