The #MeToo movement has sent reverberations around the art world, as it has around almost every industry on the planet. In January, Manchester Art Gallery sparked controversy when it temporarily removed John William Waterhouse’s famous painting Hylas and the Nymphs from its walls, in a bid to start conversations about how women are presented in art.

The pre-Raphaelite painting, which showed seven naked women trying to lure a man into a lily pond, had previously hung in a room titled In Pursuit of Beauty – which also featured many 19th century paintings showing nude women.

Other galleries and museums have run into problems when staging exhibitions of work by men accused of sexual misconduct. The Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) in Canada faced such difficulties earlier this year, when a woman came forward to say that the late Indian photographer Raghubir Singh had sexually assaulted her. A retrospective of Singh’s work was scheduled to be shown at the ROM between July and October.

In response to the woman’s allegations against Singh, the ROM decided to go ahead with the exhibition of his work. However, the museum also created a new exhibition to run at the same time, titled #MeToo & The Arts.

“#MeToo & the Arts seeks to encourage a larger conversation about how museums, and the public, are engaging with art within the context of the #MeToo and Time’s Up movements,” the museum said.

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