BREAKING EN HORROR: EPSTEIN AND THE WORLD OF MODERN ART -OF NOU JA, YOUNG FEMALE ART STUDENTS

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In the wake of the Epstein revelations, the New York Academy of Art said the school is taking steps to reconsider the way art collectors interact with its students going forward: ‘The New York Academy of Art is deeply shocked and saddened by what one of our graduates, Maria Farmer, went through at the hands of Jeffrey Epstein, and we are truly sorry for what happened to Maria,” a representative said. “The office of the president is establishing a committee to formalize a protocol for how art collectors can and should interact with the Academy’s student artists.’

As the lurid details about Jeffrey Epstein’s decades of crimes against women and girls continue to trickle out, one unexplained recurring character in the saga has been the New York Academy of Art, a private graduate school known for its emphasis on preserving the tradition of figurative art. It is where he met the young woman who became one of his earliest known alleged victims. LEES VERDER OP DE SITE VAN HET ROB SCHOLTE MUSEUM