Sunday, November 22, 2015

Art is still 'relevant'....bwahahaha!

BOSTON — With placards reading “God Hates Renoir” and “Aesthetic Terrorism,” a small band of protesters descended on the Museum of Fine Arts here this week. In their view, the long-dead French Impressionist Pierre-Auguste Renoir, who painted “treacle” and “deformed pink fuzzy women,” is overrated, overvalued and should not be taking up gallery space here or anywhere else.

https://news.artnet.com/art-world/renoir-protests-metropolitan-museum-art-342338



A pro-Renoir demonstrator at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Photo by Brian Boucher.




























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