Politics and Sexuality in the Museum: A Second Act for Hide/Seek

Tom Murphy by Minor White When the National Portrait Gallerys exhibition Hide/Seek: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture슠finished its run슠in February, 2011, earlier plans to travel it had been abandoned due to the controversy it had engendered. Much of the uproar over an exhibition exploring themes of gender identity in portraiture was caused by the…