{"id":10066,"date":"2015-10-10T12:28:22","date_gmt":"2015-10-10T16:28:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/evetushnet\/?p=10066"},"modified":"2015-10-10T12:28:22","modified_gmt":"2015-10-10T16:28:22","slug":"god-hates-renoir-protest-at-bostons-mfa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/evetushnet\/2015\/10\/god-hates-renoir-protest-at-bostons-mfa.html","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;God Hates Renoir&#8221;: Protest at Boston&#8217;s MFA"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>Glorious:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It\u2019s nothing personal, says <b class=\"b\">Ben Ewen-Campen<\/b>, he just doesn\u2019t think French impressionist <b class=\"b\">Pierre-Auguste Renoir <\/b>is much of a painter. Monday, the Harvard postdoc joined some like-minded aesthetes for a playful protest outside the Museum of Fine Arts. The rally, which mostly bewildered passersby, was organized by <b class=\"b\">Max Geller<\/b>, creator of the Instagram account <a class=\"a decorated-link\" href=\"https:\/\/instagram.com\/renoir_sucks_at_painting\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Renoir Sucks at Painting<\/a>, who wants the MFA to take its Renoirs off the walls and replace them with something better. Holding homemade signs reading \u201cGod Hates Renoir\u201d and \u201cTreacle Harms Society,\u201d the protesters ate cheese pizza purchased by Geller, and chanted: \u201cPut some fingers on those hands! Give us work by<b class=\"b\"> Paul Gauguin <\/b>!\u201d\u2026<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bostonglobe.com\/lifestyle\/names\/2015\/10\/05\/renoir-haters-picket-outside-museum-fine-arts\/e0ybbZMdhVclxN01wfmaYM\/story.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">more<\/a> (\u201cWe\u2019re Not Iconoclasts\u2013Renoir Just Sucks at Painting\u201d)<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Glorious: It\u2019s nothing personal, says Ben Ewen-Campen, he just doesn\u2019t think French impressionist Pierre-Auguste Renoir is much of a painter. Monday, the Harvard postdoc joined some like-minded aesthetes for a playful protest outside the Museum of Fine Arts. The rally, which mostly bewildered passersby, was organized by Max Geller, creator of the Instagram account Renoir [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1071,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[23],"class_list":["post-10066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","tag-lol"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>&quot;God Hates Renoir&quot;: Protest at Boston&#039;s MFA<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Glorious: It\u2019s nothing personal, says Ben Ewen-Campen, he just doesn\u2019t think French impressionist Pierre-Auguste Renoir is much of a painter. Monday, the\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/evetushnet\/2015\/10\/god-hates-renoir-protest-at-bostons-mfa.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"&quot;God Hates Renoir&quot;: Protest at Boston&#039;s MFA\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Glorious: It\u2019s nothing personal, says Ben Ewen-Campen, he just doesn\u2019t think French impressionist Pierre-Auguste Renoir is much of a painter. Monday, the\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/evetushnet\/2015\/10\/god-hates-renoir-protest-at-bostons-mfa.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Eve Tushnet\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2015-10-10T16:28:22+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Eve Tushnet\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Eve Tushnet\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/evetushnet\/2015\/10\/god-hates-renoir-protest-at-bostons-mfa.html\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/evetushnet\/2015\/10\/god-hates-renoir-protest-at-bostons-mfa.html\",\"name\":\"\\\"God Hates Renoir\\\": Protest at Boston's MFA\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/evetushnet\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2015-10-10T16:28:22+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2015-10-10T16:28:22+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/evetushnet\/#\/schema\/person\/ca04686b93c92257f019070302a23415\"},\"description\":\"Glorious: It\u2019s nothing personal, says Ben Ewen-Campen, he just doesn\u2019t think French impressionist Pierre-Auguste Renoir is much of a painter. Monday, the\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/evetushnet\/2015\/10\/god-hates-renoir-protest-at-bostons-mfa.html#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/evetushnet\/2015\/10\/god-hates-renoir-protest-at-bostons-mfa.html\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/evetushnet\/2015\/10\/god-hates-renoir-protest-at-bostons-mfa.html#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/evetushnet\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"&#8220;God Hates Renoir&#8221;: Protest at Boston&#8217;s MFA\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/evetushnet\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/evetushnet\/\",\"name\":\"Eve Tushnet\",\"description\":\"Conservatism reborn in twisted sisterhood\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/evetushnet\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/evetushnet\/#\/schema\/person\/ca04686b93c92257f019070302a23415\",\"name\":\"Eve Tushnet\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/evetushnet\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/be87ff28da150cb07788911c22e42ae2?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/be87ff28da150cb07788911c22e42ae2?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Eve Tushnet\"},\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/evetushnet\/author\/evetushnet\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"\"God Hates Renoir\": Protest at Boston's MFA","description":"Glorious: It\u2019s nothing personal, says Ben Ewen-Campen, he just doesn\u2019t think French impressionist Pierre-Auguste Renoir is much of a painter. Monday, the","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/evetushnet\/2015\/10\/god-hates-renoir-protest-at-bostons-mfa.html","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"\"God Hates Renoir\": Protest at Boston's MFA","og_description":"Glorious: It\u2019s nothing personal, says Ben Ewen-Campen, he just doesn\u2019t think French impressionist Pierre-Auguste Renoir is much of a painter. Monday, the","og_url":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/evetushnet\/2015\/10\/god-hates-renoir-protest-at-bostons-mfa.html","og_site_name":"Eve Tushnet","article_published_time":"2015-10-10T16:28:22+00:00","author":"Eve Tushnet","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Eve Tushnet","Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/evetushnet\/2015\/10\/god-hates-renoir-protest-at-bostons-mfa.html","url":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/evetushnet\/2015\/10\/god-hates-renoir-protest-at-bostons-mfa.html","name":"\"God Hates Renoir\": Protest at Boston's MFA","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/evetushnet\/#website"},"datePublished":"2015-10-10T16:28:22+00:00","dateModified":"2015-10-10T16:28:22+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/evetushnet\/#\/schema\/person\/ca04686b93c92257f019070302a23415"},"description":"Glorious: It\u2019s nothing personal, says Ben Ewen-Campen, he just doesn\u2019t think French impressionist Pierre-Auguste Renoir is much of a painter. Monday, the","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/evetushnet\/2015\/10\/god-hates-renoir-protest-at-bostons-mfa.html#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/evetushnet\/2015\/10\/god-hates-renoir-protest-at-bostons-mfa.html"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/evetushnet\/2015\/10\/god-hates-renoir-protest-at-bostons-mfa.html#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/evetushnet"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"&#8220;God Hates Renoir&#8221;: Protest at Boston&#8217;s MFA"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/evetushnet\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/evetushnet\/","name":"Eve Tushnet","description":"Conservatism reborn in twisted sisterhood","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/evetushnet\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/evetushnet\/#\/schema\/person\/ca04686b93c92257f019070302a23415","name":"Eve Tushnet","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/evetushnet\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/be87ff28da150cb07788911c22e42ae2?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/be87ff28da150cb07788911c22e42ae2?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"Eve Tushnet"},"url":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/evetushnet\/author\/evetushnet"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/evetushnet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10066","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/evetushnet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/evetushnet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/evetushnet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1071"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/evetushnet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10066"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/evetushnet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10066\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/evetushnet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/evetushnet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/evetushnet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}