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Two women were arrested after tagging a Courbet painting with the words "Me Too" at the Centre Pompidou-Metz. Another work ...

"The Origin of the World" was one of several artworks targeted in a performance by artist Deborah De Robertis at the Centre Pompidou-Metz.

Gustave Courbet’s infamous nude painting L’Origine du monde (The Origin of the World) was targeted over the weekend by protesters who tagged it with the words “Me Too.” ...

after which two people were arrested Two women have sprayed the words “MeToo” on a 19th-century painting of a woman’s vulva by French artist Gustave Courbet in a stunt by a performance ...

The Origin of the World, famous nude by Gustave Courbet (1819-1877), was tagged with red paint on Monday May 6 News ...

On Monday afternoon, a group of feminist artist-activists tagged “MeToo” in red paint on Gustave Courbet’s L’Origine du Monde. Currently on loan to the Centre Pompidou-Metz for an ...

The painting L’Origine du monde (The Origin of the World, 1866)—an explicit full-frontal female nude by the French painter Gustave Courbet—has ... When Art Meets Psychoanalysis (until ...

Art Activists in Paris have defaced Gustave Courbet's "The Origin of the World" (1866). The painting was at the centre of ...

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