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Walker Art Center Director Olga Viso traveled to D.C. earlier this week to tour the National Portrait Gallery's exhibition 

Hide/Seek: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture

. The exhibition is the ongoing source of controversy, after public reaction to the video "Fire in my Belly" prompted the Smithsonian to pull the video from the exhibition.

Viso, a former Smithsonian curator and museum director (of the Smithsonian's Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden), says the Walker will screen various versions of the film "Fire in my Belly" daily at the Walker Art Center later this week 

, pending arrangements with the artist's estate. In a statement on the Walker's website, Viso says:

Association of Art Museum Directors, under the leadership of Minneapolis Institute of Arts' Kaywin Feldman, also 

The video in question, it should be noted, is easily found on YouTube:

Update: The Walker will screening the film beginning tomorrow through December 30 from 11:30-noon in the Lecture Room; and on Thursday evenings at 8:30 pm. It will be screening the original 11-minute film and the artist's excerpted 7-minute version, as well as the 4-minute version that was shown as part of the National Portrait Gallery exhibition.

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The Walker will screen a video the Smithsonian pulled from its own exhibition.

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