Paintings with 'offensive' and 'racist' titles to be renamed by top museum (2015) // canavarlar

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A leading museum has decided to rename any artworks that have titles which are deemed to be offensive.

In a move which is designed to get rid of the words given by non-whites to others, pictures in the digitised gallery of more than 220,000 will be targeted in the Adjustment of Colonial Terminology.

Amsterdam's Rijksmuseum has announced the project , which involves all 12 curators, and will replace words used with less 'racially charged' teminology, reports the New York Times .

For example, the 1900 painting ‘Young Negro-Girl’ will now be called ‘Young Girl Holding a Fan’.

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/paintings-offensive-racist-titles-renamed-7010653