San Francisco to Criminalize the Harming of Animals

A committee in San Francisco’s city government has introduced a bill that would allow misdemeanour or felony criminal charges to be brought against any artist or financial backer who causes “the death, abuse or suffering of an animal” when making a work of art. […] The bill, which is still in the process of being drafted, must go before the city legislature before it can become law.

We propose making an artwork where dogs harm an artist and present it as animal art. We could start with a pack of pitbulls taking turns on that bozo from Latin America who allegedly chained a dog and starved it to death. Now there’s cutting edge work!

This story brought to our attention by Heather Loring (who we should probably hire) via The Art Newspaper.