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  • 2017-09-26 (xsd:date)
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  • Did the Guggenheim Museum Plan to Host Exhibits Criticized by Some as Cruel to Animals? (en)
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  • Controversy surrounded a planned exhibition of Chinese art at the Guggenheim Museum in New York, in September 2017, amid claims that it featured animal cruelty. In a petition posted to Change.org, Stephanie Lewis wrote: We received several inquiries from readers about this. The petition highlighted and objected to three works from the exhibition: a seven-minute video showing eight dogs strapped to treadmills and forced to run on them while facing each other in pairs; a video showing pigs with Roman letters and Chinese characters stamped on them having sex; and a table covered in a see-through dome containing insects and reptiles. In its preview, The New York Times described these three exhibits. On Peng Yu and Sun Yuan's Dogs That Cannot Touch Each Other: On Xu Bing's A Case Study of Transference: On Huang Yong Ping's Theater of the World: The Times preview also includes photographs which appear to support these descriptions. Whether or not these exhibits meet your personal definition of animal cruelty, Stephanie Lewis's petition accurately describes the basic facts about them. On 25 September 2017, the Guggenheim Museum announced that these three installations would not be included in the forthcoming exhibition. (en)
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