Comments on: Animal Art, Brutality in San Francisco

By: Madeline

Madeline — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 05:40:45 +0000

A horse…used for food…I don’t think so. This artist and whoever killed the animals this way are sick people. This is just plain revolting..

By: Ashley

Ashley — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 07:15:13 +0000

i think its so cruel to =( i cant stand that people in this world can do it!!!!! i have a dog called jack. hes a silky terrier…. if anything happened to him id find out who did it and say to him ur going to jail 4 life!! if only it were that simple so please donate money and buy any animal from the RSPCA no matter where u live PLEASE!!!

By: maddy campbell

maddy campbell — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 22:22:55 +0000

people in our world are so cruel this is so sad, I cant believe people with a sick enough mind who want to kill animals in the cruelest ways, and call it “art.” I don’t get why you would want to kill any animal. How would he like it if someone did that to him?

By: jon Tucker

jon Tucker — Fri, 30 May 2008 14:51:40 +0000

are these animals specialy killed for this?
in my opinion these are wrong they should stick to pencil and paper

By: Artist to Starve Dog, Again « The Discerning Brute

Artist to Starve Dog, Again « The Discerning Brute — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 14:29:24 +0000

[...] with intentionally vague context. It would seem that following in the footsteps of Damien Hirst, Adel Abdessmed, and Guillermo Vargas Habacuc could gain any artist immediate and extensive press coverage by [...]

By: Stillers

Stillers — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 19:04:42 +0000

Squiggy -

SFAI has not been ‘decent’ in this case, but complacent, and so ‘well-intentioned’ it’s now resurfacing the road to hell. I see President Bratton got to come at it well after the event in an nicely embarrassing damage limitation exercise.

Someone said the result of the phonecalls amounted to censorship. Rubbish. Those vicious phonecalls were the most vivid thumbs-down that artaster could have. Abdessemed’s idea was so crassly poor that his piece wouldn’t have got past first base at any art school anywhere in the world (yes, including Algeria). His piece about killing animals asks no questions at all, instead it makes some ghastly, moronically sick assumptions about untrammelled power in an artist, assumptions that went unquestioned all the way to the top of a world-famous art gallery. Hey, transgression, schmansgression… you have to get it right when you transgress!

‘Don’t Trust Me’? It’s not exactly trust you’re worried about now, Adel.

By: Arlene Steinberg

Arlene Steinberg — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 05:38:57 +0000

To DD:

First of all, that’s MS. Steinberg to you. Learn some manners (and grammer) before you open YOUR mouth. That alone should shut you up for about 15 years.

In fact, don’t open your mouth at all if all you are going to do is self-aggrandize and posit a bunch of pseudo-intellectual ranting. Your own hostility and meanness was so pervasive through your post, it completely diminished whatever point you thought you were making. Yes, I did indeed state an incorrect point, but there is an intelligent and polite way to correct and debate……and then there is your way.

And DD, you sure are a Master Debater.

Take an anger management course. Your sorely need one.

And take an art course while you’re at it. Maybe you’ll learn to tell the difference between cruelty and creativity.

By: today in art » Blog Archive » Don’t Trust Me - by Adel Abdessemed

Fri, 04 Apr 2008 14:29:01 +0000

[...] his message. Video footage of matters like these is a powerful tool for change if used effectively. The Discerning Brute says it well, “documenting animal cruelty is one of the most powerful tools animal advocates [...]