Mike Simpson (R, ID), chairman, House Subcommittee for Interior, Environment and Related Agencies
Attention Art-lings! If you’ve already booked flights, trains and limos to Washington for Smithsonian Secretary G. Wayne Clough‘s Thursday morning hearing before the House Subcommittee for Interior, Environment and Related Agencies, cancel those plans!
As I had warned in my post announcing this event, the hearing’s schedule was “subject to change.” Now word comes that it has changed: The subcommittee has postponed various hearings that were scheduled for this week, including the Smithsonian’s. No new date has been announced at this writing.
I guess I won’t have the benefit, then, of that riveting give-and-take before I prepare my remarks for this Saturday’s public discussion at Rutgers University, Newark (with co-panelist Martin Sullivan, the National Portrait Gallery’s director). Our topic: Hide/Seek: Museums, Ethics and the Press.
Don’t forget to register (at the above link) for our colloquy on the controversy. Admission is free; space is limited—just like at the House subcommittee’s hard-to-pin-down hearings!