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In Trump’s America, the question of what art is shown in national galleries and museums is a potent one, and Catherine Opie believes she knows when she’s not welcome.
“There’s absolutely no way the Smithsonian will show me right now,” she says while overseeing the final installation of her highly anticipated new exhibition in London, at the UK’s National Portrait Gallery. It would be reasonable to assume a show like this, which displays photos of American people from the ’90s to now, might eventually make its way to the National Portrait Gallery in Washington DC but no, she says. “Absolutely not.”
Opie, one of America’s foremost…