Recent Art Controversies

Guest Blog: John Davis Malloy on the Smithsonian After Hide/Seek

By Michael O'Neil|2024-10-30T10:59:27-04:00May 11th, 2011|Categories: Blog|Tags: 1st Amendment, Art Censorship, Censorship, david wojnarowicz, DC, flashpoints, Free Expression, galleries, government censorship, heckler's veto, Hide Seek, homophobia, museums, Public Art, self-censorship, smithsonian, wayne clough|

It’s true that the Smithsonian’s Flashpoints and Faultlines forum was too late for Hide/Seek, but keeping the issues alive months after the exhibit closed may be the right timing for the future of this public institution. It was no surprise that in his welcoming remarks Wayne Clough described himself as [...]

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Clough Stands By Decision To Pull “A Fire In My Belly” From Hide/Seek

By Michael O'Neil|2025-04-07T13:24:57-04:00April 27th, 2011|Categories: Blog|Tags: Arts & Culture Advocacy Program, Censorship, flashpoints, government, Hide Seek, LGBT, Religion, smithsonian, wayne clough, Wojnarowicz|

Despite concerns the Smithsonian's Flashpoints and Faultlines forum would be a bland showcase designed to obscure the institution's commitments to First Amendment principles instead of examining them, last night's opening panels included direct criticism from the dais of Smithsonian Secretary Wayne Clough's decision to censor David Wojnarowicz's "A [...]

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NCAC Covering Smithsonian Flashpoints Forum On Censorship

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NCAC Covering Smithsonian Flashpoints Forum On Censorship

By NCAC Staff|2025-04-07T13:24:55-04:00April 25th, 2011|Categories: Blog, Incidents|Tags: Arts & Culture Advocacy Program, smithsonian, Visual Art|

We'll post live updates from the much-anticipated "Flashpoints and Fault Lines" forum, planned in the aftermath of the censoring of David Wojnarowicz's "A Fire In My Belly" from the National Portrait Gallery in late 2010

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Christian Extremists Vandalize Art — Again and Again

By Svetlana Mintcheva|2020-01-03T13:40:29-05:00April 20th, 2011|Categories: Blog|Tags: Art Censorship, Arts & Culture Advocacy Program, france, fundamentalist christians, i have a radio in my head, Jesus Christ, mob scene, nationalism, piss christ, Religion, vandalism|

Last October we reported about an incident at the Loveland Museum/Gallery in Colorado where a woman ripped into a lithograph after she busted the artwork’s plexiglass case with a crowbar. She did this because God told her to do it. In her explanation of the vandalism, Kathleen Folden refers to [...]

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