The Metropolitan Museum ... Dreaming (1938), that has been targeted by an online petition. The petition—which has garnered more than 8,700 signatures in five days—states that the Met should ...

In a tweet posted around 5 p.m. on Friday, November 30, Mia Merrill, a New York City entrepreneur, implored the public to join her in asking the museum to remove a work by Polish-French artist ...

The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York has decided not to take down a Balthus painting of a young girl, Thérèse Dreaming (1938 ... of clarification, the Met is, perhaps unintentionally ...

The Metropolitan Museum of Art has made the right decision ... The 1938 painting, “Thérèse Dreaming,” shows an adolescent girl sitting on a chair, with one leg raised to expose her ...

A painting at the Metropolitan Museum of ... “Thérèse Dreaming” by Balthus, painted in 1938, depicts a “pubescent model lost in thought,” according to the Met’s website.

The current controversy around Balthus’s scandalous 1938 painting Thérèse Dreaming, which shows a prepubescent ... in the painting’s description.” The Met’s response was unambiguous, declaring that ...

I both like and dislike “Thérèse Dreaming” (1938), the Balthus painting that thousands of people have petitioned the Metropolitan Museum to remove ... At present, the Met is standing by ...