WASHINGTON, DC.- The Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery will continue to display AA Bronson’s work “Felix, June 5, 1994” in its exhibition, “Hide/Seek: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture,” through the show’s scheduled closing Feb. 13, 2011. Bronson recently requested the portrait’s removal in protest over the deletion of a video segment by David Wojnarowicz titled “A Fire in My Belly.” Martin Sullivan, director of the Portrait Gallery, and curators David C. Ward and Jonathan Katz carefully considered Bronson’s request. They also considered concerns expressed by supporters of “Hide/Seek” that the theme and impact of the overall exhibition would suffer significantly if the work were removed. Sullivan consulted with the National Gallery of Canada, which owns the work and loaned it to the Portrait Gallery for the exhibition. “I have great empat