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Article: Provocation art: where to draw the line?(FRONT PAGE)(art exhibition posponed because of animal rights protest)
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- Art in America
- Article date:
- June 1, 2008
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A number of artists' projects have recently stirred up controversy, variously raising the ire of animal-rights activists, abortion opponents, pro-choice advocates, fertility-challenged women, and more.
On Mar. 26, Adel Abdessemed's show at the San Francisco Art Institute was suspended, then permanently closed a few days later, after protests from diverse quarters. At question was his series of six looped videos, each only a few seconds long, showing animals--a fawn, a horse, a goat, a pig, an ox and a sheep--as they were bludgeoned to death with a sledgehammer. That the scenes depicted are real is not in doubt. What is unclear is whether the artist commissioned the ...
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