Sneak Peak at Brooklyn Museum's Controversial "HIDE/SEEK" Exhibit
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
By Katie Nelson
NEW YORK - The Daily News got a sneak peek Tuesday at an upcoming exhibit at the Brooklyn Museum that has been slammed for including a controversial depiction of ants running wild over a crucifix. “This show is challenging,” Tricia Laughlin Bloom, the project’s curator, said while standing in front of an enormous photo of a dead, open-eyed AIDS patient by AA Bronson. “We are asked to confront different artists’ perspectives on how they experienced the AIDS crisis of the 1980s, and in the case of [video creator] Wojnarowicz, it’s angry.” The exhibit, “HIDE/SEEK: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture,” is set to open on Friday — and features the avant-garde four-minute video called “A Fire in My Belly.” The silent video, the brainchild of Brooklyn artist David Wojnarowicz, shows ants crawling over the body of Jesus as depicted in a crucifix. “The crucifixion clearly is about ultimate suffering,” explained museum director Arnold Lehman. “It’s been used by artists for hundreds of years to represent the world’s suffering.” [link]
By Katie Nelson
NEW YORK - The Daily News got a sneak peek Tuesday at an upcoming exhibit at the Brooklyn Museum that has been slammed for including a controversial depiction of ants running wild over a crucifix. “This show is challenging,” Tricia Laughlin Bloom, the project’s curator, said while standing in front of an enormous photo of a dead, open-eyed AIDS patient by AA Bronson. “We are asked to confront different artists’ perspectives on how they experienced the AIDS crisis of the 1980s, and in the case of [video creator] Wojnarowicz, it’s angry.” The exhibit, “HIDE/SEEK: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture,” is set to open on Friday — and features the avant-garde four-minute video called “A Fire in My Belly.” The silent video, the brainchild of Brooklyn artist David Wojnarowicz, shows ants crawling over the body of Jesus as depicted in a crucifix. “The crucifixion clearly is about ultimate suffering,” explained museum director Arnold Lehman. “It’s been used by artists for hundreds of years to represent the world’s suffering.” [link]
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