POSITIVE FIGURES
N 2010, ACTIVIST GROUP ART+POSITIVE stood on the steps of New York’s Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, a Manhattan-based Smithsonian institution, to demand that the Smithsonian return the film , by HIV-positive artist David Wojnarowicz, to the National Portrait Gallery’s exhibition “Hide/Seek: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture.” Its eventual expulsion from the show underlined not only the queerphobia of American institutions, but also how they actively erase HIV-positive
