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The attack occurred at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. last week:
I have to ask:
Was the woman who attacked the painting a Muslimah?
Why did the Washington Post crop that painting for the web version of the story?
Maybe someone here at IBA can do some digging and help me to the find the answers to those two questions.
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Gauguin's Two Tahitian Women Attacked
The attack occurred at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. last week:...Screaming “This is evil,” a woman tried to pull Gauguin’s “Two Tahitian Women” from a gallery wall Friday and banged on the picture’s clear plastic covering, said Pamela Degotardi of New York, who was there.Here's something else interesting about the above story. The hard copy edition of the Washington Post shows the painting as in this posting. However, the online edition of the Washington Post has cropped a photo of the painting so as not to show the women's bare breasts:
“She was really pounding it with her fists,” Degotardi said. “It was like this weird surreal scene that one doesn’t expect at the National Gallery.”
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The suspect in the attack, who was not identified by name, was presented in court on Saturday....Details of the court appearance were not immediately available....
I have to ask:
Was the woman who attacked the painting a Muslimah?
Why did the Washington Post crop that painting for the web version of the story?
Maybe someone here at IBA can do some digging and help me to the find the answers to those two questions.
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