Thread by @Medea_Matters, $1 billion for the Smithsonian ? Well, they've got a lot of [...]

$1 billion for the Smithsonian ? Well, they've got a lot of connections to DC elites .. like.. https://hirshhorn.si.edu/dynamic/podcasts/podcast_191.pdf https://twitter.com/aturbo17/status/1341555618084134918

Tony Podesta and pizza guy James Alefantis ..

I suppose some of that money will go to the magazine too .. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/are-babies-born-good-165443013/#ixzz2Gy9eUkPj%20

The Smithsonian could put some of that money towards the underground tunnels at Dupont Circle

Strange that this Smithsonian article does not mention James Alefantis involvement in the Dupont Underground Art Project . https://www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/underground-tunnel-dc-finally-getting-fresh-air-180955206/

The pdfs have been scrubbed but ..

Alefantis worked with James Huckenpahler on the Dupont Art Project. Few links to JH's documents survive today ..

>Huckenpahler in Berlin with Dr Pong , Alefantis partner ..

But Huckenpahler really needs his own thread .. back to Smiths...

Patty Stonesifer - former co-chair and CEO of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and former chairman of the Smithsonian Institution Board of Regents ...

https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/sdut-smithsonian-board-seeks-changes-after-video-flap-2011jan31-story.html

Microsoft Canada >
https://slate.com/business/2019/03/patty-stonesifer-microsoft-marthas-table-transcript.html

President & CEO Martha's Table https://bernsteinfamilyfoundationdc.org/patty-stonesifer/

Martha's Table was involved with the Prince Charles visit to DC in 2011 https://archive.is/pvrrY

In this thread I explain the links of this event to the Alefantis and other networks .. https://twitter.com/Medea_Matters/status/1328324530583052288

https://twitter.com/Medea_Matters/status/1328324530583052288

Patty Stonesifer was involved with the dispute with the Catholic Curch over the video “A Fire in My Belly” by David Wojnarowicz https://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/01/us/01smithsonian.html

James Alefantis and his Transformer Gallery objected to the 'artwork's' removal

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/arts-post/2010/12/transformer_letter_to_smithson.html

James Alefantis was caught up with the Act Up AIDS activism of the time, as was the artist David Wojnarowicz .. as well as the Wellcome Trust .. which Alefantis visited in London

Wellcome Trust > Act Up + amfAR > Peter Staley > James Staley > Epstein

James Alefantis was caught up with the Act Up AIDS activism of the time, as was the artist David Wojnarowicz .. as well as the Wellcome Trust .. which Alefantis visited in London Wellcome Trust > Act Up + amfAR > Peter Staley > James Staley > Epstein

ACT UP! stage protests all over the US *begging* the FDA to pass AZT. They barricade themselves in Burroughs-Wellcome's North Carolina HQ ..

I'll just pop this here for now ..

Wellcome Trust + Damien Hirst >'Mad cow disease' explored in exhibition

https://wellcome.org/press-release/mad-cow-disease-explored-forthcoming-exhibition

James Alefantis pops up again on the Club Caravan Host Committee - they provide glittering galas for the Freer and Sackler Galleries of the Smithsonian

The Silk Road Society Presents "Club Caravan" Black Tie After-Party http://www.digitaljournal.com/pr/938883

Smithsonian works with Art in Embassies - FAPE

See: Art in Embassies Program Gave Podestas, Jeff Koons, Rockefellers, Clintons, Marina Abramovic, Rothschilds even Alefantis access to a private shipping channel that could bypass airport security https://archive.is/pDCj1

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