New Yorkers call for removal of Met painting that ‘sexualizes’ girlNew Yorkers launched a petition demanding that the Metropolitan Museum of Art remove a 1938 painting of a young woman with her underwear exposed due to the “current climate around sexual assault†— but the Met refused Sunday. The piece, “Thérèse Dreaming†by the French artist Balthus, “sexualizes†the girl by depicting her lounging in a skirt with her knee up on a chair, according to the petition,
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