Comments on: The Shifting Art Offensive

By: Rebecca Tichon

Rebecca Tichon — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 15:25:58 +0000

this is terrible, i do not only pay attention to starving animals in a gallery i take in every abandoned, stray animal, even adopt from shelters so thats shit just because some dont care, did he not think of those of us who do care , the dog was a living creature that feels pain and sadness, id LOVE to see that fuckin artist die a slow death

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incense burners — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 16:49:26 +0000

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By: Cynapse

Cynapse — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 11:40:35 +0000

That angle was already covered in the article. Story seems to change depending on whether Habcuc is losing publicity and/or risking real-life charges.

By: Pearce

Pearce — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 21:10:21 +0000

They didn’t kill the dog. They just pretended to. Sure fooled you, though.

“It has now emerged, however, that artist Guillermo Habacuc Vargas intended the work to be a stunt to show how a starving dog suddenly becomes the centre of attention when it is in a gallery, but not when it is on the street. The work was intended to expose people for what they really are – “hyprocritical sheep”. He said that in order for the work to be valid, he and the gallery had to give the impression that the dog was genuinely starving to death and that it died.

“Juanita Bermúdez, director of the Codex Gallery, stated that she would not have allowed the dog to be mistreated, that it ate and drank regularly, and that it was allowed to escape back to the streets from where it was taken at the end of the exhibit. “It is conceptual art and a work that leaves a social message”, she said.”

http://thepetextraordinarium.blogspot.com/2008/03/starving-dog-exhibit-reported-as-hoax.html

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By: b-psycho

b-psycho — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 16:25:09 +0000

At root of the controversies that come with government funding of art is attempts to define art itself. Some people simply will not rest until everything conforms to their personal morality.

That said, ummm… what’d crack cocaine have to do with the plight of stray dogs?