Difficult Subjects ~ Today in WojnaBloggery and Prehensile Toes

The Akron Art Museum will be showing the censored David Wojnarowicz video "A Fire In My Belly" with Museum Director Mitchell Kahan warning

Potential audiences should know that A Fire in My Belly is not easy viewing. It involves sex, violence, politics and religion, all of which are difficult subjects to view.

via The 330
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Two protestors ejected from the National Portrait Gallery for their independent showing of A Fire In My Belly on iPads will return across the street with a Davidian trailer flickering images to smote the Smithsonian Goliathan.

Support for their efforts can be displayed at http://dontcensor.us/

via washingtoncitypaper.com
via popnography quickies

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Here's a few takes on the legend:


flickr result found imagoogling "david and goliath" smithsonian

Study for David and Goliath, 1971, acrylic on canvas, 127 x 137cm,

Collection Colorado Springs Fine Art Center

via this hot take on Paul Cadmus from contemporarybalears.com

Appropriating Appropriately, Rendering Renditions

A fake National Portrait Gallery site (note the .us) has been created to show the censored David Wojnarowicz video "A Fire In My Belly"

Fake Site.
Censorer's Site.

Words In Action

Hyperallergic.com has several photos of Sunday, December 19, 2010, action in NYC.  The protesters marched  to the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, operated by the Smithsonian.

Silence = Death
Smithsonian Stop the Censorship ART+

World Class Hero

Philippa P.B. Hughes at The Pinkline Project describes Patti Smith's performance and words of tribute to David Wojnarowicz at the National Portrait Gallery on Saturday in Patti Smith is still a hero. 
"Her best line of the day: "I imagine Jesus coming back and embracing the ants and being appalled by the crucifix." "