Venus Statue Deemed Sexist Removed From Berlin Federal Office

I see what you don't see, says the Equal Opportunity Officer. Namely sexism! In Berlin, a Venus sculpture was removed from a Federal Office. It seems that this shocking sight can be better tolerated elsewhere.

According to the equality officers, the naked bronze statue "Venus Medici" was removed from a Federal Office. Now it is in the Grassi Museum in Leipzig.

Venus Statue Deemed Sexist Removed from Berlin Federal Office

The plague of presentism seems to be on an unstoppable march. One might think that the exercise of projecting the values of the present day onto the past has been exposed often enough to discourage those practising it. But this is not the case: it is not only zealous activists who want to see artwork embodying one of the ‘guilty isms’ disappear but overeager bureaucrats, too.  The War Against the Past: The Ideology of ‘Presentism’ A minor German…

For years a bronze venus decorated a Berlin authority. Then her nudity aroused trouble and she had to give way. Her moving history.