Andy Warhol Foundation Threatens to Pull Funding from Smithsonian

Following our post yesterday about the outing of the conservative writer who launched the ongoing controversy at the Smithsonian and the National Portrait Gallery, more heat has been added to the story this week. The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, which had donated $100,000 to help fund the “Hide/Seek” exhibition that the Gallery decided to remove a piece by artist David Wojnarowicz after catching the drummed-up ire of political and religious groups, has announced that unless the piece is put back, they

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