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Art history is too white, too male for Yale

By Madeline Fry Schultz

Published January 27, 2020 8:55pm ET

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Too many white men have created great art over the past few centuries, and Yale is finally going to do something about it.

The Ivy League university will be scrapping its art history survey course, “Introduction to Art History: Renaissance to the Present,” in order to become less “problematic.” Apparently, the class focused on too many straight, white men, that abhorrent genre of geniuses.

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