Protests Over National Portrait Gallery Controversy Spread to New York

This weekend marked the first major protest outside of Washington DC over the ongoing controversy surrounding the National Portrait Gallery‘s decision to pull a piece of art from an exhibition following pressure put upon it by political and religious groups. Art+, an art-based activist group, put together the protest yesterday afternoon in New York, which wound up bringing together somewhere between 400 to 500 protesters. The march, filled with artists, free speech advocates and placards by the hundreds, began at the Met and ended at the Smithsonian‘s Cooper-Hewitt.