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Don’t get me wrong, I’m an animal lover but this is the typical knee-jerk “liberal” SF reaction: ban and censor rather than discussion and exploration even though discrimination of such type is similar to totalitarian tactics.
Glad I live in New York where you can still buy live seafood!
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S.F. Gallery Suspends “Animal Snuff Video” Show After Protests
By ARTINFOPublished: March 27, 2008
SAN FRANCISCO—A San Francisco art gallery has suspended an exhibition feature video images of animals being bludgeoned to death following “massive” protests from local activists, reports the Sacramento Bee. “Don’t Trust Me,” featuring the work of Algerian-born, Paris-based artist Adel Abdessemed, opened at the San Francisco Art Institute last week and features video images of six animals, including a doe, a horse, a pig, and a sheep, being killed with a sledgehammer. The gallery has announced it will temporarily suspend the exhibition, originally scheduled through May 31, after groups including the Sacramento Vegetarian Society condemned the work as “an animal snuff video” and “a disgusting attempt to pass off the brutal abuse and killing of animals” as art. The museum says that the videos show images of events “that took place, and regularly take place, in the real world” and that the exhibition reflects the institution’s commitment to encourage “students and the wider public to think about and assess the world they inhabit.” The institute has scheduled a public discussion of the exhibition for next Monday at noon. |
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