From AMPer Kitty Diggins:

There is now a petition to try to have Guillermo Vargas Habacuc removed from the Biennial of Central America.

For those of you who are not familiar with the story, Vargas is an artist in Costa Rica who found an ailing dog on the street and tied him up in a gallery as an installation piece as onlookers watched the dog die. He did not allow anyone to feed it, but rather placed dog food out of the dog's reach so that it could not get to the food. Here's a link to my previous blog on the situation.

He has been accepted into the very prestigious Biennial of Central America and has been asked to RECREATE THE INSTALLATION.

At this point, I think it is the art council which needs to be stopped rather than the artist.

For what it's worth, click here for a link to the petition.

Please sign it and email it to everyone you know and post it as many places as you can.

Thanks.

http://www.petitiononline.com/ea6gk/petition.html