New York’s Museum of Modern Art to Display Controversial Video by David Wojnarowicz

NEW YORK, NY.- A controversial video artwork that was withdrawn from an exhibition following complaints by a Catholic group and Republican members of Congress will now go on display at the Museum of Modern Art. Announcing the acquisition, the museum said American artist David Wojnarowicz, who died in 1992, was “one of the most influential artists to have emerged from New York in the 1980s.” An excerpt from the 13-minute video entitled “A Fire in My Belly” by Wojnarowicz was withdrawn from an exhibition in November at the National Portrait Gallery, a Smithsonian museum in Washington, after Bill Donohue, president of the Catholic League, described it as anti-Christian “hate speech.” Donohue said he was offended by a short sequence in the video that

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