“I respect MOA Director Anthony Shelton’s decision to cancel ‘The Forgotten’ exhibition. However, it saddens me as I see this as society’s continuing refusal to acknowledge what happened to these women,” Masik said.
A high-profile British Columbia museum has caved in to pressure from First Nations and women’s groups and censored one of Canada’s most prominent artists.
Citing “serious concerns” and fears of causing “further distress,” the Museum of Anthropology has cancelled an exhibition of paintings of missing and murdered women from the city’s Downtown Eastside.