By Kenneth Baker,
San Francisco Chronicle
On March 20, the San Francisco Art Institute opened an exhibition by Algerian-born Paris artist Adel Abdessemed. By the following Wednesday, the Art Institute announced that it had closed the exhibition until the controversy it provoked could be aired at a public discussion to take place Monday at noon. Over the weekend, the Art Institute canceled the panel discussion and the exhibition altogether. The reason: unnumbered threats of violence from animal rights activists and possibly from others. Menacing e-mails and phone messages had even streamed into Abdessemed's New York gallery, David Zwirner, unnerving its employees. A fellow artist represented by Zwirner, videomaker Diana Thater, circulated online one of the more reasoned statements of indignation over the SFAI show. Click here to continue reading...
Adel Abdessemed, 2007, Installation View. Photo by Matthew Septimus.
Adel Abdessemed, 2007, Installation View. Photo by Matthew Septimus.
Adel Abdessemed, 2007, Installation View. Photo by Matthew Septimus.
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