As the temporary collection they created notched its 5,000th visitor, Mike Blasenstein and Michael Dax Iacovone — the pair who were “banned” from the Smithsonian museums last December after protesting the removal of David Wojnarowicz’s “A Fire in My Belly” from the National Portrait Gallery — are now allowed to return to the the Institution’s museums.

Protests over the removal of David Wojnarowicz’s A Fire in My Belly from the National Portrait Gallery began to pick up steam last week, when about 100 people marched from Transformer Gallery, who had displayed the work in its front window, to the Gallery. Now, some are taking the protest into the halls of the Portrait Gallery.