Editing David Wojnarowicz (section)

====Response from the art world and the public====
In response, the curator David C. Ward defended the artwork, saying, "It is not anti-religion or sacrilegious. It is a powerful use of imagery".<ref name="washingtonpost1" /> The [[Andy Warhol Foundation]] announced that it would not fund future Smithsonian projects, while several institutions, including the [[San Francisco Museum of Modern Art]] and the [[Tate Modern]], scheduled showings of the removed work.<ref>{{cite news |title=Outcry Over Smithsonian Censorship Grows |work=The Bay Citizen |date=December 14, 2010 |first=Reyhan |last=Harmanci |url=http://www.baycitizen.org/visual-art/story/outcry-over-smithsonian-censorship-grows/ |access-date=December 14, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101216092914/http://www.baycitizen.org/visual-art/story/outcry-over-smithsonian-censorship-grows/ |archive-date=December 16, 2010 |url-status=dead |df=mdy-all }}</ref>

The decision led to multiple protests.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/12/02/pulled-from-national-portrait-gallery-video-emerges-elsewhere-in-washington/ |date=December 2, 2010 |title=Pulled from National Portrait Gallery, Video Emerges Elsewhere in Washington |author=Dave Itzkoff |work=The New York Times }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=http://voices.washingtonpost.com/goingoutgurus/2010/12/hideseek_go_see_it_for_yourself.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110811040507/http://voices.washingtonpost.com/goingoutgurus/2010/12/hideseek_go_see_it_for_yourself.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=August 11, 2011 |title=Going Out Gurus – 'Hide/Seek': Go see it for yourself |newspaper=The Washington Post |date=December 1, 2010 |access-date=December 7, 2010 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last=Capps |first=Kriston |url=http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/artsdesk/visual-arts/2010/12/01/transformer-steps-up/ |title=Transformer Will Show Video Art That National Portrait Gallery Took Down |work=Washington City Paper |date=December 1, 2010 |access-date=December 7, 2010}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://news1.capitalbay.com/news/washington-dc/157567.html |title=National Portrait Gallery censorship controversy: Artist projects film on portrait gallery, recreating '89 protest |work=Capital Bay|access-date=December 3, 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110708114835/http://news1.capitalbay.com/news/washington-dc/157567.html |archive-date=July 8, 2011 |df=mdy-all }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.wusa9.com/news/local/story.aspx?storyid=123522&catid=158 |title=Silent March Held To Protest Controversial Film's Removal From National Portrait Gallery |publisher=WUSA9.com |access-date=December 3, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101203195236/http://wusa9.com/news/local/story.aspx?storyid=123522&catid=158 |archive-date=December 3, 2010 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite web| url=http://www.theawl.com/2010/12/what-else-is-in-the-national-portrait-gallerys-offensive-gay-show |title=What Else Is in the National Portrait Gallery's "Offensive" Gay Show? |author=Jessica Roake |date=December 2, 2010 |access-date=December 2, 2010| publisher=The Awl }}</ref>

On December 9, National Portrait Gallery Commissioner James T. Bartlett resigned in protest.<ref>{{cite web |last=Green |first=Tyler |url=http://blogs.artinfo.com/modernartnotes/2010/12/npg-commissioner-resigns-in-protest-of-video-removal/ |title=NPG commissioner resigns to protest removal |publisher=Modern Art Notes |date=December 9, 2010 |access-date=June 27, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120313033951/http://blogs.artinfo.com/modernartnotes/2010/12/npg-commissioner-resigns-in-protest-of-video-removal/ |archive-date=March 13, 2012 |url-status=dead }}</ref> Clough issued a statement standing by the decision.<ref>{{cite news| url=http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/culturemonster/2011/01/critics-notebook-smithsonians-clough-needs-to-admit-error-.html | work=Los Angeles Times | title=Critic's Notebook: Smithsonian chief digging a deeper hole | date=January 18, 2011}}</ref> Several Smithsonian curators criticized the decision, as did critics, with ''[[Newsweek]]'' arts critic [[Blake Gopnik]] diagnosing the complaints as "gay bashing" and not a legitimate public controversy.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Zongker |first1=Brett |title=Experts debate Smithsonian's response to critics |url=http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/apr/27/experts-debate-smithsonians-response-to-critics/ |agency=Associated Press |work=[[The Washington Times]] |access-date=24 April 2016 |date=27 April 2011 }}</ref>