Hide/Seek Timeline: February 2011
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Continued from: Hide/Seek Timeline: January 2011
February 10, 2011
- "The show at the National Portrait Gallery became a flashpoint for many cultural issues and was the loudest uproar at the Smithsonian in years. The show, the largest in the portrait gallery's history, also drew record crowds. In January, the entire building, shared with another museum, had 85,656 visitors."
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- No matter the point of view, the show attracted thousands of visitors to the museum. The National Portrait Gallery shares a building with the Smithsonian American Art Museum at Gallery Place . It also shares visitor statistics. The entire building had 320,003 patrons from November 2010 to January 2011. American Art was hosting a successful show of Norman Rockwell at the time. For the same period the year before the two museums had 199,927 visitors.
- The Rockwell show closed January 2. The January visitor numbers, released by the Portrait Gallery, show 85,656 visitors, compared to the January 2010 tally of 64,968.
- On the last day, one more protest is planned. Two men who were removed from the museum for showing the banned video outside the exhibit entrance, have been screening the entire film in a truck outside the museum. On Sunday they have invited people to form a flash mob inside the show and show the video from their iphones and ipads.
February 11, 2011
{http://www.artinamericamagazine.com/news-opinion/the-scene/2011-02-11/caa-jonathan-katz/Hirsch, Faye. "Hide/Seek Curator Speaks Up at CAA. Art in America.]
