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Hi there, listeners. It's Friday, which means that it is time for Art Curious News this week.

Our short form news roundup meant to bring you up to date on some of the latest goings on in the realm of art history. As always, I am your

host, Jennifer Dassel, and we've got some great stories to share with you today. Friday, January 20th,

20, 23. For today's first story, I am sharing a follow-up

from my lead story of last week. In Art Curious News this week for January 13th, I discussed a New York

Times article about the firing of an adjunct professor from Hamlin University for displaying a 14th century image of the prophet Muhammad in a global art history class.

As I mentioned last week, this was huge, huge news.

And it was a story that touched on everything from the quality of life and wages provided to adjunct professors, freedom of speech,

religious tolerance, academic freedom, and even the state of art history as still a very

Eurocentric field. This week, the New York Times followed up with a report that Hamlin University

released a statement apologizing for their previous

comment that the display of the image of Muhammad was, quote, Islamophobic.

The reasoning for this about face, the times added, the lecturer is suing the university

for religious discrimination and defamation. The lawsuit argues that the lecturer has

experienced not only emotional distress and loss of income from her firing at Hamlin,

but that such claims of Islamophobia and more could potentially mar her career in perpetuity,

especially in this age, where everything on the internet follows us everywhere,

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