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<\/p>\nArtworks by leading queer American artists can still cause debate and censorship in the USA. A video by gay artist David Wojnarowicz has been censored at the Smithsonian\u2019s National Portrait Gallery. Fearing that the whole show would be closed by Republicans in Congress, the director of the museum had a David Wojnarowicz video removed from the queer exhibition\u00a0‘Hide\/Seek: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture’ recently.\u00a0\u00a0You can\u00a0see (the rest of) the\u00a0Hide\/Seek exhibition\u00a0through February 13, 2011.\u00a0 It is a mixed queer\u00a0exhibition, among the lesbian artists featured in this\u00a0show are Annie Leibovitz, Cass Bird, Romaine Brooks, Bernice Abbot and\u00a0Nan Goldin.<\/p>\n
The Foxnews.com writes: ‘The Smithsonian Institution\u2019s National Portrait Gallery is under fire for hosting an exhibit titled ‘Hide\/Seek,’ which is filled with homoerotic art such as an image of two naked men embracing, Ellen DeGeneres grabbing her breasts [by Annie Leibovitz] and other controversial installments like a video of Jesus on a crucifix covered in ants’ [the video by Wojnarowicz, which was removed from the exhibition].<\/p>\n
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The Hide\/Seek exhibition website with Annie Leibovitz’s photo of Ellen Degeneres, December 2010.<\/em><\/p>\n Hide\/Seek, curated by Jonathan D. Katz, is the first museum exhibition to focus on sexual difference in the making of modern American portraiture. The photo of Ellen DeGeneres grabbing her breasts is the cover photo of the Hide\/Seek website. The exhibition site presents samples of artworks and artists. You can also\u00a0find a slideshow with photos of the controversial\u00a0artworks\u00a0at the FoxNews website.<\/p>\n Artworks by leading queer American artists can still cause debate and censorship in the USA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[59,88],"class_list":["post-3891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-queer-art","tag-annie-leibovitz","tag-cass-bird"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\tFeminine Moments previous posts about Hide\/Seek<\/code>
\nHide\/Seek Exhibition At The Smithsonian, USA<\/a>\u00a0in which I mention the exhibition catalogue and
\nQueer portraits at the Smithsonian<\/a>\u00a0in which I am happy to see that contemporary photographer Cass Bird has been selected for the exhibition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"