One Year After Smithsonian's Turmoil, Another Round of Controversy Begins as Brooklyn Museum Prepares to Open 'Hide/Seek'

Has it already been nearly a year since the explosion of controversy surrounding the National Portrait Gallery‘s decision to pull artist David Wojnarowicz‘s video piece, “A Fire in My Belly,” from their exhibition “HIDE/SEEK: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture.” You’ll likely remember all about it, the whole story of the Smithsonian removing the work, which at one point depicts ants crawling over a religious icon, after numerous groups complained. It was, after all, seemingly the only thing the art world wanted to talk about for months (and was clearly still vying for the “#1 Art Story of 2011” until the even more discussed Ai Weiwei news broke).