IRREVERENT: A Celebration of Censorship
Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art
26 Wooster Street, NYC
February 13 – April 19, 2015
Opening Reception Friday, February 13th, 6-8pm
Curated by Jennifer Tyburczy
Inspired by the creative and activist responses to the censorship of Robert Mapplethorpe’s art in the 1980s and 1990s and the more recent withdrawal of David Wojnarowicz’s A Fire in My Belly from the National Portrait Gallery in 2010, Irreverent explores how sexuality has been, and continues to be, used as a tool to prohibit LGBTQ cultural artwork.
I got a note from my friend Barbara Nitke, that she’ll be in this show:
“My part in the show stems from Nitke v. Ashcroft, a US Supreme Court case I fought against censorship on the internet along with the National Coalition for Sexual Freedom and our attorney, John Wirenius. Jennifer included an insightful description of that lawsuit in her recent article about the show for The Archive. History buffs can read more about the case in John Strasbaugh’s 2002 article in New York Press. ”
Read the press release:
https://www.leslielohman.org/about/press-release/2015/irreverent-pr.html