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Posted inFilm

Letting a Dairy Cow’s Life Speak for Itself

Avatar photo by Manuela Lazic March 28, 2022March 28, 2022

In her documentary Cow, Andrea Arnold avoids anthropomorphism, instead trying to present the world as her main character sees it.

Posted inBooks

Humankind’s History of Betraying Animals

by Carl Little August 7, 2021August 6, 2021

Thalia Field’s poems collage scientific, historical, and philosophical sources to explore speciesism.

Posted inArt

The Guggenheim Calls for Greater Civility in Public Discourse While Avoiding Its Own Problems

Avatar photo by Zachary Small May 11, 2018May 14, 2018

The Guggenheim Museum’s two days of talks for its “Culture and Its Discontents” event resembled, at its best points, a mediocre rendition of Kum ba yah.

Posted inNews

Thai Street Artists Demand Justice After Killing of Endangered Black Panther

by Ben Valentine April 3, 2018

After a Thai mogul was arrested for allegedly hunting in a wildlife sanctuary, artists started painting panther murals to keep the story in the public consciousness.

Posted inNews

Guggenheim Pulls Three Works from Upcoming Show After Outcry Over Animal Abuse [UPDATED]

Avatar photo by Benjamin Sutton September 26, 2017September 26, 2017

The works by Peng Yu and Sun Yuan, Huang Yong Ping, and Xu Bing were the focus of a petition that garnered more than 600,000 signatures in the past week.

The original Change.org petition calling for the removal of three works from Art and China after 1989: Theater of the World has accrued nearly 500,000 signatures. (screenshot by the author)
Posted inIn Brief

PETA Accuses Guggenheim of Catering to the “Twisted Whims” of Animal Abusers

Avatar photo by Benjamin Sutton September 25, 2017

The animal rights organization is calling on the museum to exclude two works from its upcoming survey of Chinese contemporary art.

Posted inNews

Guggenheim Accused of Supporting Animal Cruelty in New Exhibition

Avatar photo by Benjamin Sutton September 22, 2017September 25, 2017

A petition is calling for the removal of three works, including an installation of live lizards and insects and a video of a performance involving pit bulls running on treadmills, from the forthcoming Art and China After 1989.

Posted inIn Brief

Animal Rights Activists Baaaash Artist’s Studio Over Indigo-Dyed Sheep at Documenta

by Claire Voon June 13, 2017June 15, 2017

For his project, artist Aboubakar Fofana dyed the coats of 54 sheep with indigo and brought them from Mali to the Greek capital.

Posted inArt

Four Parrots in a Cage Isn’t Art! Four Parrots in a Cage Isn’t Art!

by Scout MacEachron February 18, 2016February 18, 2016

MIAMI — Imagine a group of four-year-olds in a room with glass windows: Cleo, Zach, David, and Jany.

Posted inArt

The Calm and Controversy of 12 Horses in an Art Gallery

Avatar photo by Allison Meier June 26, 2015June 29, 2015

For a gallery with 12 horses and a line of visitors stretching out the door, Gavin Brown’s enterprise is exceptionally hushed.

Posted inIn Brief

Cai Guo-Qiang Turns Tortoises into Art, Raising Animal-Rights Concerns [UPDATED]

by Jillian Steinhauer August 6, 2014August 6, 2014

The new Shigeru Ban–designed Aspen Art Museum will open with a 24-hour event this Saturday, but not everyone in town is happy.

Posted inOpinion

Required Reading

Avatar photo by Hrag Vartanian July 10, 2011July 10, 2011

This week’s Required Reading examines how copyright law impacts images by animals, art’s LGBT problem, a history of English, China’s political prisoners, against reviews and Frank Lloyd Wright’s dislike of intellectuals.

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