WHAT THE SMITHSONIAN DIDN'T WANT YOU TO SEE

 

 

Temporary ‘Museum’ in Washington, D.C. Will Keep Banned Art Available to Public as Smithsonian Censorship Controversy Grows

 

WASHINGTON, D.C., January 11, 2011 — The Museum of Censored Art will open to the public on Thursday, January 13, 2011, on the Smithsonian’s doorstep, announced art and free speech activists Mike Blasenstein and Michael Dax Iacovone today. The free speech advocates will open the Museum of Censored Art in a mobile office trailer outside the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery, where they will screen the film censored by the Smithsonian, “A Fire In My Belly” by the late gay artist David Wojnarowicz.

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