December 20, 2010, 2:20 PM
National Portrait Gallery Rejects Artist’s Request to Remove His Work
By KATE TAYLOR James Estrin/The New York Times
AA Bronson
The National Portrait Gallery in Washington will not comply with an artist’s request that it remove a work of his from the exhibition “Hide/Seek: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture,” the gallery’s spokeswoman said Monday afternoon. The artist, AA Bronson, asked last week that the gallery remove from the show his photograph “Felix, June 5, 1994,” which shows the body of Mr. Bronson’s partner shortly after he died of AIDS, to protest the removal of another work after it was criticized by members of the religious right and some congressional Republicans.