December 2010
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Patti Smith & Michael Stipe celebrate Jean Genet →
On Sunday, December 19, MoMA visitors were treated to a “walk-in performance” by artist and musician Patti Smith, to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the birth of prominent and challenging French writer and political activist Jean Genet.
“What are you eating?”
“Kidney beans.”
“Why are you eating them?”
“To piss off Pythagoras.”
“Under the stars?”
“Out of the circle.”
— Just Kids
Susan Cadogan - Nice and Easy.
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This Beautiful Fight: Reinstall Wojnarowicz Video.... →
sophiawallace:
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…
Sign a petition against censorship at the National... →
bustour:
The National Portrait Gallery ceded to pressure from Christian fundamentalists to censor the first exhibition in the U.S. to examine questions of sexual difference and dissidence in the sweeping context of canonical American art.
Please sign this petition and spread the word as much as you can, we need to start making noise and let them know this is not acceptable. For more...
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National Portrait Gallery withdraws Wojnarowicz...
“Catholic League President Bill Donohue said the video by artist David Wojnarowicz depicting ants crawling on a crucifix was “hate speech” and designed to insult Christians,” and so yesterday the National Portrait Gallery simply removed the video from the Hide/Seek: Difference in Desire in American Portraiture exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery.
The allegedly...