Paris’s famous art school removes all mention of #MeToo in new book

The renowned French art academy the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts (Ensba), in Paris, is at the centre of a censorship row following claims that a section about #MeToo sexual harassment claims were removed from a book about the history of women at the institution.

According to the French publication Le Quotidien de l’Art (8 March), 1,500 copies of the book Les Suffragettes de l’art. L’entrée des femmes a l’Ecole des Beaux-arts (The Suffragettes of Art. The Entrance of Women into l’Ecole des Beaux-arts) by the art critic Anaïd Demir were reprinted earlier this year. The new, second, version of the book is missing the sections “#MeToo years” and “A charter for gender equality”.

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