Issue No. 32: Responses to the Smithsonian's Censoring of Wojnarowicz

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The National Portrait Gallery's description of Hide/Seek: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture.

If you don't know the backstory, here it is.

This photograph by AA Bronson is part of the Hide/Seek Exhibit at the National Portrait Gallery in the Smithsonian Institute. 

AA Bronson, Felix.

“I made this photograph of Felix a few hours after his death. He is arranged to receive visitors, and his favorite objects are gathered about him: his television remote control, his tape-recorder, and his cigarettes. Felix suffered from extreme wasting, and at the time of his death his eyes could not be closed: there was not enough flesh left on the bone.”

AA Bronson

Felix died of AIDS on June 5, 1994

Bronson wants to pull it from the show.

The Warhol Foundation threatens to pull $375,000 of funding if the Wojnarowicz video is not restored.