Guggenheim Pulls Three Works from Upcoming Show After Outcry Over Animal Abuse
Last night, the Guggenheim Museum announced that it would exclude three works from its forthcoming historical survey of contemporary Chinese art, Art and China after 1989: Theater of the World, following outcry from animal rights activists. The works in question — “Dogs That Cannot Touch Each Other” (2003) by Peng Yu and Sun Yuan, “Theater of the World” (1993) by Huang Yong Ping, and “A Case Study of Transference” (1994) by Xu Bing — had been the focus of a Change.org petition launched last week. As of this writing, more than 600,000 people have signed it, making it the site’s most popular petition in the US this week.
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