As part of the current rush to defend all things Muslim, "The Museum of Modern Art in New York City is protesting Donald Trump’s executive order preventing certain citizens from entering the U.S. by taking down some of the most famous pieces in its permanent collection and replacing them with works created by artists hailing from the seven Muslim-majority countries targeted by the travel ban. After the museum closed Thursday night, its crew carefully swapped out seven paintings, including works by Pablo Picasso, Francis Picabia and Henri Mattise, and replaced them with installations done by the Sudanese painter Ibrahim El-Salahi, Iraqi architect Zaha Hadid and the Iranian artists Tala Madani and Charles Hossein Zenderoudi, the museum's senior curator, Jodi Hauptman, told Gothamist Thursday."
I have a better idea. If you want to see a work by some famous Muslims, just look here instead:
Monday, February 06, 2017
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