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Controversial San Francisco School Mural Won’t Be Removed. It Will Be Hidden By Panels.

ISSUES, VISUAL Posted: August 14, 2019 6:03 am

In a 4-to-3 vote, the San Francisco Board of Education voted to reverse its earlier decision to paint over the series of 13 Victor Arnautoff frescoes, collectively titled The Life of Washington, at the city’s George Washington High School. Students and activists had complained of the murals’ depiction of Native Americans and of Washington’s African-American slaves, though Arnautoff had maintained that those depictions were meant to be critical of the country’s treatment of those two groups. – The New York Times

ISSUES, VISUAL Published: 08.14.19, sj

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