How a Medusa sculpture from years ago became #MeToo art

Medusa With The Head Of Perseus was reimagined as a symbol of triumph for victims of sexual assault. PHOTO: GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA
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NEW YORK (NYTIMES) - When artist Luciano Garbati made his sculpture of Medusa holding Perseus' severed head - an inversion of the centuries-old myth - feminism was not what he had in mind.

He was not thinking of the #MeToo movement either: Garbati had created the work in 2008, nearly a decade before the movement went mainstream.

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