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  • Museum Called "White Supremacist" after Asking Visitors to Dress Like Painting Containing Kimono

    07/07/2015 10:05:03 AM PDT · by rightistight · 59 replies
    The Social Memo ^ | 7/7/15 | Aurelius
    The Boston Museum of Fine Arts is being called "racist" after it encouraged visitors to dress in a kimono to celebrate Claude Monet's 1876 painting "La Japonaise." The painting contains a woman dressed in a kimono: A group called "Stand Against Yellow-Face @ the MFA" has planned a protest for tomorrow at six o'clock. According to Stand Against Yellow-Face, "There is no education from curators or staff on the painting itself, nor the "orientalism" that was ocurring [sic] at the time, nor is there any sort of education on the kimono itself. "The act of non-Japanese museum staff throwing these...