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In the latest tragical-comical episode linking the art world and the #MeToo movement, a group of artists and activists, with the help of the gallery’s curator, removed a seminal Pre-Raphaelite artwork from the wall of the Manchester Art Gallery “to initiate a discussion.” My analysis<\/a> of what happened was just published in Dispatches section of The New Criterion<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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In the latest tragical-comical episode linking the art world and the #MeToo movement, a group of artists and activists, with the help of the gallery’s curator, removed a seminal Pre-Raphaelite artwork from the wall of the Manchester Art Gallery “to initiate a discussion.” My analysis of what happened was just published in Dispatches section of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[905,903],"tags":[837,838,843,840,841,844,630,842],"class_list":["post-3232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-metoo","category-the-new-criterion","tag-metoo","tag-censorship","tag-manchester-art-gallery","tag-pre-raphaelites","tag-social-practice","tag-sonia-boyce","tag-the-new-criterion","tag-waterhouse"],"yoast_head":"\nManchester Art Gallery "Challenging a Victorian fantasy" is a clumsy publicity stunt - Julia Friedman<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/juliafriedman.org\/?p=3232\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Manchester Art Gallery "Challenging a Victorian fantasy" is a clumsy publicity stunt - 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