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I appreciate your writing so much. Thank you for the opportunity to consider images and ideas that I otherwise would have missed. I wonder if in the turning away from the (male) gaze, these paintings suggest women having a life outside of it, a personal self. I know next to nothing about art, but that’s one thing I see.

I hope that like past anti-art initiatives, the current one makes us all more aware of artists we otherwise might not have heard of. Robert Maplethorpe became a household name because of the outrage over his photography. I hope many other artists become famous this time around. Let’s make censorship work by highlighting the work of censored artists.

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