The Campaign to Remove a Shocking Painting from the French National Assembly
A report by Lauren Collins for The New Yorker. Our thanks to Peter Jordens for bringing this item to our attention. The first time the French filmmaker and scholar Mame-Fatou Niang encountered “L’histoire en Peinture de l’Assemblée Nationale,” a large painting hanging in the National Assembly in Paris, she was “prise aux tripes”—grabbed by the guts. It…