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Hello everyone and happy new year.

We are back at it with our short form Friday roundup of my favorite art history updates and interesting news tidbits.

This is Art Curious News this week, and this gets you up to date on some of the latest goings on in the realm of art history.

I am your host, Jennifer Dassel, and one of my resolutions this year is to bring you this news show more

frequently, so let's do it. Today is Friday, January 13th, 2023. And this past week has been full of

levity, as well as some serious allegations and questions. First off, my art community was a buzz after the New York Times

published an article about the firing of an adjunct professor from Hamlin University, a small

liberal arts college in St. Paul, Minnesota. Earlier last fall, the adjunct, who was teaching a

global art history class online, displayed a 14th century

image of the prophet Muhammad, the founder of Islam. This work is considered to be, in the words

of one historian of Islamic art, a, quote, masterpiece of Persian manuscript painting, unquote.

And it is now part of the collection of the University

of Edinburgh in Scotland, a prize work of medieval art that has been displayed and published about

many times over. However, to many Muslims, the visual representation of the prophet is absolutely

forbidden. This is a subject that I touch on very briefly in my book,

Art Curious, by the by. And some consider the professor's decision to include this image and another

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