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

Tom Murphy by Minor White When the National Portrait Gallery’s exhibition Hide/Seek: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture finished its run in 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…

9/11: Only Half the Story?

This month the United States, as well as many countries the world over, has commemorated the 10th anniversary of 9/11. There have been museum-sponsored events and exhibitions such as the inauguration of the 9/11 Memorial Plaza at the World Trade Center in New York, and a display of 9/11 artifacts collected by the Smithsonian’s…

Museum Commons

..to create a space where real difference can be
spoken and explored seems a useful contribution.
-Lewis Hyde "Common as Air"

controversial exhibitions

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

9/11: Only Half the Story?