Hide/Seek Timeline: March 2011

March 11, 2011

Taylor, Kate. "Smithsonian’s Controversial Show May Come to Brooklyn Museum and Tacoma Art Museum". New York Times. 2:43 PM

The controversial National Portrait Gallery exhibition “Hide/Seek” may come to the Brooklyn Museum, the museum’s spokeswoman, Sally Williams, said on Friday [March 10]. . . . “Hide/Seek” closed last month, but now the Brooklyn Museum and the Tacoma Art Museum in Washington State are collaborating to reconstitute it, Rock Hushka, the director of curatorial administration at the Tacoma museum, said. Mr. Hushka said that the planning was on a fast track, with an eye to the exhibition possibly opening in Brooklyn before the end of the year, and eventually going to Tacoma.

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The new interest in the show, which was not originally scheduled to travel, is clearly in part a result of the controversy it stirred in Washington. Mr. Hushka, who is working on another show with one of the curators of “Hide/Seek,” Jonathan D. Katz, said he had followed the exhibition’s development closely . . . . Then, in January, the Tacoma Art Museum’s director, Stephanie Stebich, asked him if it would be possible to remount the show “in a very, very short time frame,” he said. “And I said I would move heaven and earth to make this happen.”