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A Report From the Front Lines of New York’s Smithsonian Censorship Protest

NEW YORK—”Pro-ant crawlers” is how Catholic Leaguepresident Bill Donohue has dismissively termed the thousands of people who have risen in protest against the Smithsonian’s censorship of David Wojnarowicz’s video in the National Portrait Gallery’s “Hide/Seek” show, a 1987 artwork relating to the AIDS crisis that was removed after a handful of conservative radicals — Donohue and two Republican senators, essentially — objected to a brief scene showing ants crawling on a crucifix. The notion that the demonstrators are “pro-ant” is as laughable as the idea that the exhibition, a survey of work by gay artists, was targeted for its 11 seconds of Christ imagery. The hundreds of people who massed at the steps of New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Artyesterday to march on the Smithsonian’s Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum on 91st Street and Fifth Avenue had no such illusions about what was behind the right-wing response.

http://www.artinfo.com/news/story/36616/a-report-from-the-front-lines-of-new-yorks-smithsonian-censorship-protest/

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