Uncovering the Conservative Writer Who Fueled the National Portrait Gallery Controversy

The controversy over the National Portrait Gallery‘s decision to pull a piece by artist David Wojnarowicz just got a bit more interesting with this story filed by Kriston Capps at the Washington City Paper. Digging into the origins of the story, wherein an unlikely piece of art, considered “fairly minor” and “not even the most prominent piece by the artist on display” at the Gallery’s new exhibition “Hide/Seek,” became such a hot button issue, Capps tracks the whole thing back to conservative advocate and writer Penny Starr, who not only published the

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