In her documentary Cow, Andrea Arnold avoids anthropomorphism, instead trying to present the world as her main character sees it.
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Humankind’s History of Betraying Animals
Thalia Field’s poems collage scientific, historical, and philosophical sources to explore speciesism.
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The Guggenheim Calls for Greater Civility in Public Discourse While Avoiding Its Own Problems
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.
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Thai Street Artists Demand Justice After Killing of Endangered Black Panther
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.
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Guggenheim Pulls Three Works from Upcoming Show After Outcry Over Animal Abuse [UPDATED]
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.
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PETA Accuses Guggenheim of Catering to the “Twisted Whims” of Animal Abusers
The animal rights organization is calling on the museum to exclude two works from its upcoming survey of Chinese contemporary art.
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Guggenheim Accused of Supporting Animal Cruelty in New Exhibition
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.
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Animal Rights Activists Baaaash Artist’s Studio Over Indigo-Dyed Sheep at Documenta
For his project, artist Aboubakar Fofana dyed the coats of 54 sheep with indigo and brought them from Mali to the Greek capital.
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Four Parrots in a Cage Isn’t Art! Four Parrots in a Cage Isn’t Art!
MIAMI — Imagine a group of four-year-olds in a room with glass windows: Cleo, Zach, David, and Jany.
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The Calm and Controversy of 12 Horses in an Art Gallery
For a gallery with 12 horses and a line of visitors stretching out the door, Gavin Brown’s enterprise is exceptionally hushed.
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Cai Guo-Qiang Turns Tortoises into Art, Raising Animal-Rights Concerns [UPDATED]
The new Shigeru Ban–designed Aspen Art Museum will open with a 24-hour event this Saturday, but not everyone in town is happy.
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Required Reading
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.