Zhang Huan’s iconic performance: A small mountain of naked people
Zhang Huang is one of the greatest and perhaps most popular controversial artists in contemporary China. He first started...
Pigs in art - 3 examples
Wim Delvoye is tattooing pigs. Is this cruel?
It is often said that art is an expression of one’s soul and when the medium of art is an animal’s back, it is rather fascinating. According to Wim Delvoye, the Belgian artist that came up with the tattooed pigs’ concept, an artist does not have to be cruel to animals to make great …
Heartbreaking: The abandoned animals of Fukushima
Fukushima’s disaster
A day after a tsunami damaged a nuclear reactor at Fukushima in Japan on 11 March 2011, inhabitants living within 20km of the power plant were forcibly evacuated. They had to leave their personal belongings as well as their household pets and farm animals behind. Three days later, there was a hydrogen explosion …
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