Animal rights and visual imagery
"Nitsch, an Austrian artist, uses animal entrails, blood and carcasses in his performances to embrace Dionysiac orgy and catharsis. A show including Abdessemed’s Don’t Trust Me at the San Francisco Art Institute was cancelled in March 2008 after animal rights activists threatened museum staff with bodily harm. An exhibition of the video was also closed in Turin, northern Italy, in February, after protests and questions of legality, although the show subsequently reopened.Details here.
Meanwhile, animal rights groups and 26 states have filed or joined briefs in support of the 1999 law, which makes it a crime to create, sell or possess depictions of animal cruelty with the intent to sell them in interstate commerce."
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ATTENTION WALM-ART SHOPPERS!
ATTENTION WALM-ART SHOPPERS!
Artists wanting their 15 minutes of fame for creating pro-America pro-1st Amendment art that spits in the eye of PETA and any law 'which makes it a crime to create, sell or possess depictions of animal cruelty with the intent to sell them in interstate commerce' are asked to report to Bentonville, Arkansas ASAP with slides and resumes in hand to apply for inclusion in WALM-ART's 1st Piss On PETA Biennial, which is co-sponsored by the NRA and the Sarah Palin Foundation For Moose Hunting Handi-Abled Kids!
Please note that public law mandates that real fur coats must be worn at ALL opening receptions in the state of Arkansas - GO RAZORBACKS!
Thank you for defending your 1st Amendment rights while shopping at WALM-ART's museum gift store!
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