Pressure from outside the art world, threats of violence, and an online petition nearing a million people have compelled the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York to remove several artworks from an exhibition. Art and China after 1989: Theater of the World is the title of the exhibition. The cause of the firestorm came when animal rights activists, such as Peta became aware of 3 art works. These 3 works could be misunderstood as...

By The WayGuest UserNovember 15, 2017Guggenheim Museum NYC, Protest, America, PETA, Animal Rights, Sun Yuan, Peng Yu, Huang Yong Ping, Xu Bing, China, PodcastComment

BTW #2 - Death

A bit of change up on this episode of By The Way, as Eric and Ando talk about Sam Durant’s sculpture titled Scaffold. Originally created by Sam Durant for dOCUMENTA (13) in Kassel, Germany, the work has since been purchased by the Walker Art Center, USA. The story does not end there. We hope you listen to hear about why some people say ‘That's a...

By The WayGuest UserOctober 18, 2017Sam Durant, Walker Art Center, America, dOCUMENTA, Sculpture, Protest, Visual Art, PodcastComment