I find a few things bizarre about the art piece:
a) People are very upset, yet, don't really care about the thousands of strays starving on the street.
b) In one of the galleries, there are people around. No one frees him. No one calls the humane society of Costa Rica. They seem to be just standing there checking out the installation and other pieces around the dog.
c) I reasearched the exhibit, and there are a number of websites that quote each other. It reminds me when WorldNet"News" will report that the police tackle a 10 year old to the ground for emailing a classmate and calling him a homophobic name, yet can only cite other cites that seem to support each other.
d) The Us hurls puppies off of cliffs, and there is little said about it.
http://www.theginblog.com/2008/03/t...t-brings-us-the-unpatriotic-parts-of-the-war/
Snopes cannot confirm whether it is true or not, but a "sign the petition to..." is the smelling of a rat.
The article from Prensa
http://translate.google.com/transla...ta/219438.shtml&langpair=es|en&hl=en&ie=UTF-8
And finally, the dog "escaped"? Really?
In an art museum with guards? Either it was let go purposefully by the artist or by someone not related to the exhibition out of protest. The dog was tied up, it was part of the exhibit, and just "escaped"? Really???
I used to live in Minneapolis. The NEA was cut because of this:
The performance Mr. Yelkin and Mr. Berenson saw, an adults-only fringe event sponsored by the Walker Art Center, was given by the now notorious Ron Athey, who uses ritual tattooing as part of his autobiographical art. But at the time Mr. Athey's show was not notorious; it only became so after surfacing in The Minneapolis Star Tribune three weeks later.
In that front-page article, Mr. Yelkin and Mr. Berenson are the only two audience members quoted by name. Their description of the Athey event suggested that a panicked crowd fled from overhead towels allegedly soaked with a performer's H.I.V.-positive blood. The story also reported that $150 in N.E.A. funds had been spent on the show.
Soon the Christian Action Network was recycling the account in a "Declaration of War" asking its faithful for money to prevent the N.E.A. chairwoman, Jane Alexander, from seeking a $50 billion budget for "dripping blood on the audience." (The N.E.A.'s actual budget is a mere $49.83 billion short of that figure.) Before long The Washington Times imported this hysteria to the capital, running a dozen pieces, among them a crude satirical fantasy of Ms. Alexander's being kidnapped by North Korea's Kim Jong Il.
I go to Patrick's Cabaret, so I knew many people who were there. The performance artist, who is HIV positive, tells a autobiography, and uses scarification (something still used in Africa). He then had cloth that was put against his skin, and it created a pattern of blood in the cloth. The cloths were then put on a clothesline, and pulled over the audience. They weren't "dripping with blood" at all.
And the most interesting thing about it? Alexander wasn't in the audience.
I wouldn't believe everything you read.
There are pics at the link as well. This is absolutely disgusting. I'm so disgusted by this I can't even find the words to descibe how I feel. Unbelievable. 
