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Fox News blurs nipples on famous Picasso painting, angers many

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By Nesh Pillay, Reporter

May 14, 2015 | 4 min read

Fox News has angered many after it blurred the breasts of three female forms in Picasso’s famous painting, The Women of Algiers (Version O).

The network was reporting on the painting’s recent record-breaking $179m sale.

Both art enthusiasts and the general public took to Twitter to share their rage over the censorship.

Senior art critic for The New York Magazine, Jerry Saltz, wrote that the move was “sexually sick” and used the hashtag #sick minds.

Others echoed his sentiments, calling Fox News “pathetic,” while some used the hashtag #freethenipple to voice their disapproval of the censorship of the female body.

Fox News has not responded to the outrage.

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