{"id":346786,"date":"2018-02-04T15:19:33","date_gmt":"2018-02-04T14:19:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/museum-removes-19th-century-painting-to-prompt-conversation\/"},"modified":"2018-02-04T15:19:33","modified_gmt":"2018-02-04T14:19:33","slug":"museum-removes-19th-century-painting-to-prompt-conversation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/museum-removes-19th-century-painting-to-prompt-conversation\/","title":{"rendered":"Museum Removes 19th Century Painting to \u2018Prompt Conversation\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"\">\n<p>An art gallery in Manchester, England has taken down a painting that features naked women, ostensibly to spark discussion amid the #MeToo movement. Critics say it\u2019s simply censorship.<\/p>\n<p>On Friday, the Manchester Art Gallery announced it would be temporarily removing a painting from the 1890s in order to \u201cprompt conversation about how we display and interpret artwork\u201d during a time when several sexual harassment scandals are in the headlines.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe gallery exists in a world full of intertwined issues of gender, race, sexuality and class which affect us all. How could artworks speak in more contemporary, relevant ways?\u201d the gallery\u2019s statement reads.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p>Gallery 10 may look a little different to how you last saw it&#8230; This is to prompt conversation about how we display and interpret artwork in <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Manchester?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Manchester<\/a>\u2019s public collection. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/MAGsoniaboyce?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#MAGsoniaboyce<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/IXkcODOkTk\">pic.twitter.com\/IXkcODOkTk<\/a><\/p>\n<p> \u2014 MCR Art Gallery (@mcrartgallery) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mcrartgallery\/status\/957016772821078016?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 26, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>John William Waterhouse\u2019s 1896 painting Hylas and the Nymphs depicts a scene from Greek Mythology where Nomia, a water nymph, lures Hylas, one of Heracles\u2019 companions, to his watery grave. The seven mythical creatures in the painting are all shown as naked women.<\/p>\n<p>The painting used to hang in a room called \u201cIn Pursuit of Beauty,\u201d which features paintings of beautiful women, some of whom are represented without any clothing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis gallery presents the female body as either a \u2018passive decorative form\u2019 or a \u2018femme fatale\u2019. Let\u2019s&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/redice.tv\/news\/museum-removes-19th-century-painting-to-prompt-conversation\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An art gallery in Manchester, England has taken down a painting that features naked women, ostensibly to spark discussion amid the #MeToo movement. Critics say it\u2019s simply censorship. On Friday, the Manchester Art Gallery announced it would be temporarily removing a painting from the 1890s in order to \u201cprompt conversation about how we display and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2520,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-346786","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2520"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=346786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346786\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=346786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=346786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=346786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}