Spay and neuter your pets, kids, or fluffy gets a razor blade to the throat!

I love this quote so much I am making it my signature.

I keep reading this as "That motherfucking artist is black", and it makes me want to punch you in yr face, you fucking racist.

I keep reading this as "I'm political correct, that can't take a joke", and it makes me want to punch you in yr face, you fucking hippie.

I thought you were going to say that grafitti 'artist' 'Banksy'. I find him a little annoying.

As far as I know, the bodies in said exhibit weren't murdered/tortured. Correct me if I'm wrong, though.

Murder and torture is something you actively do.

Allowing a dog to starve is something you passively do.

Wow, this is making me want to bust out the Aristotle.

Neglect is still a form of cruelty. Either way, the lives of the humans in the Body Worlds exhibit weren't purposely ended or "hurt" (I can't think of the right word I want to use..) for the exhibit. Again, this is as far as I know.

Prince no longer claims to be an artist. These days he prefers to be called, "The dead dog formerly known as Prince."

i wish people bitched so much about the million iraqi dead since the war started

Again.
Of course it's more important that millions of iraqi died for nothing but the fucking Bush's killing desire, but that doesn't make less important things to forget. Otherwise we could just close every thread in that section of the forum in order to talk about more important things (and then we would close those threads because we would find something even more important, and then...)

all balls. balls i tell you.

this was too ridiculous and i couldn't pass it up

this was too ridiculous and i couldn't pass it up

and deserved a double post.

anngella: do they have a guaranty that all the bodies on the bodies exhibition died of natural causes? and above all, does it make a difference? they are corpses.

i'm not for or against bodies (or even the puppykiller artist, he's just a sick asshole like many others, starting by the current president of the u.s.), but it makes me wonder, just because it's socially acceptable to go see a bunch of human carcasses as art/entertainment is not viewed as bad as, say, work by damien hirst involving dead animals. makes me wonder how long 'til televised executions become the next craze in reality television.

the Body World's exhibit is "entertainment" in the vein that a lecture on art history is entertainment or a visit to a science museum to see dinosaur bones is "entertainment"

that was a wonderful exhibit. anything that allows us humans to understand that in nearly every single respect we are all, each of us, 99.999999% EXACTLY THE SAME is a GREAT thing.

If you get a chance to go go. you will be better off for it.

If you actually took the time to look into this 'story' you would find out that the dog didn't die.
The Humane Society investigated this case and concluded that the dog was actually treated pretty well. Yes it was skinny, but that's because it was a street dog. According to the Humane Society's report the dog wasn't tied up for more than 3 hours at a time, was fed and watered regularly and was released, in good health, at the end of the installation.
Mr Habacuc has produced a very though provoking artwork that shows the hypocrisy in us all. When there are thousands, if not millions of animals and human beings starving to death all over the planet that we conveniently ignore, it is only when faced with the perceived death of an innocent creature as a public exhibition that we are finally wrenched from our apathy to do what? - Sign an online petition for gods sake!? If this story has affected you, why don't you drag yourself away from your PC screen, go out into the big wide world and do something about it.

Although you state that "anyone that actually takes the time to look into this 'story' will discover that the dog did not die." I looked into the story. I still don't know anything definitive.


I found this at the Humane Society website.
http://www.hsus.org/contact_us/human...l#Q_dog_artist

Do you have an alternate link?

Wiki and other pages on the web say something to this effect:
A probe by the Humane Society revealed that the dog was in a state of starvation when it was captured and escaped after one day of captivity. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guillermo_Habacuc_Vargas

And, as far as I can determine, the exhibit lasted for more than one day. So, if the dog ran away in one day, then did he just make arrangements to find and obtain yet another stray dog to take its place, right?
As of yet, I cannot ascertain with any definitive certainty if any dog(s) died or not in connection to the exhibit(s).

At any rate, an animal, an intelligent animal that people normally keep as a pet, is being abused, at least on some level, in the installation. Florya opines that, after all, it's just a dog, and if it the "piece" provokes thought, then it is valid. Maybe so.

I'm still not sure about the validity since far too many "conceptual" works are piles of hodgepodge assembled by "artists" with little to no talent merely for shock value and often to support some half-baked sociopolitical idea.
But I will write that all along I figured that this was probably actually the case, that the dog was simply emaciated beforehand and that the artist did nothing to squash rumors that he was killing the dog when all he was doing is holding it up and suggesting we take a look; and that all the while he was affording the dog some meager sustenance on the sly as it were. Then again, I still don't know what to believe. And owing to the exhibits taking place in other countries, I also did consider that perhaps the guy really is starving stray dogs to death.