Posted on 09/26/2017 1:51:52 PM PDT by SMGFan
A trio of art exhibits at the Guggenheim Museum in New York City have been pulled due to questions over alleged animal abuse.
“Out of concern for the safety of its staff, visitors, and participating artists, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum has decided against showing the art works ‘Dogs That Cannot Touch Each Other’ (2003), ‘Theater of the World’ (1993), and ‘A Case Study of Transference’ (1994) in its upcoming exhibition ‘Art and China after 1989: Theater of the World,‘” explained the museum in a press release on Monday.
The museum added, “Although these works have been exhibited in museums in Asia, Europe, and the United States, the Guggenheim regrets that explicit and repeated threats of violence have made our decision necessary. As an arts institution committed to presenting a multiplicity of voices, we are dismayed that we must withhold works of art. Freedom of expression has always been and will remain a paramount value of the Guggenheim.”
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yes, “their” I should have been used not “there”
Oh, so the exhibit is done with live animals.
Well, now I understand some of the objection.
It’s not a knee-jerk snowflake response at all.
No, sentient, domesticated animals should not be used in such a manner. If we were talking about Japanese Fighting Fish facing off, with one fish per it’s own glass bowl, that would be somewhat different, so long as they could move around a bit for tension relief.
Good. They were sadistic.
I read elsewhere the artist received a $300,000 grant from the National Endowment of the Arts. We are paying for this.
Gasp, I cannot believe that I must actually agree with the request to pull these exhibits.
Given that I’d choose an animal, any animal, over a low IQ snowflake currently infecting our universities, is there any way we could put some of the snowflakes on those treadmills instead of dogs or other innocent animals?
Like some cretinistic sociology prof on the mill with a Confederate flag taped just in front of him/her/it/whatever? Please?
Disgusting. These are live creatures, G-d’s creations, not inanimate objects to be arranged as desired. Excrement-for-brains, whoever sanctioned these acts of cruelty (sure as heck can’t be called art!).
I read elsewhere that the exhibit is a video recording of an event in China in which the animals never touched each other.
Then they ate them. Just kidding.
** Disgusting. These are live creatures, G-d’s creations, not inanimate objects to be arranged as desired. **
I didn’t post the pic of the “transference” exhibit. That artist is a pervert by most standards.
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