LACMA's plan to open a show featuring Robert Mapplethorpe's gay sadomasochistic photographs two weeks before Election Day proves we've come a long way--maybe
The exhibition that made headlines at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C., in 2010, "Hide/Seek: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture," opens today at the Brooklyn Museum…
The exhibition that sparked the now infamous censorship scandal last fall at the National Portrait Gallery is coming to Brooklyn. "Hide/Seek: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture" will be on …
Though not ostensibly about the censorship scandal that has roiled the art world, "Against Acknowledgement: Sexuality and the Instrumentalization of Knowledge," a panel chaired by Jonathan Katz, a "Hi…
The controversy over the removal of a four-minute video from an exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery has observers wondering whether the culture wars are back. If so, can anything be done to…
"Hide/Seek" at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C., explores a century's worth of profound changes in the representation of gay identity.
"Ants in my pants, fire in my belly," chanted critic Jerry Saltz, with an estimated 500 artists, curators, activists, and gay and lesbian supporters on Sunday afternoon. The collective chant voiced re…
"Hide/Seek: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture" currently on view (in part) at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C., has been called "Virulent," "vile," "strident," "decadent,"…