Just put a thread about an artist starving a dog to death for the sake of art in 2007.
Now he wants to repeat this exhibition again.

Did not realise it would get pulled as I had put a petition onto the thread asking other dog lovers to complain about this man.sorry about that!
Just seen a young man on you tube telling us about this Guillermo Vargas man.
I'm hoping with the power of public outrage he will be stopped from doing this again.

I am not giving this man publicity for what he has done by mentioning his name. Only to ignore something bad and cruel is not in my nature. ignoring cruelty and suffering will not make it go away.
I did not actually believe this when I heard about it.

If you had not put it up I might have, I also signed petition, cruelty should be fought by everyone where ever it is found, ignoring things means we could repeating the holocaust. Its mans inhumanity that is so fearful

This was on the news last night too - disgusting behaviour and I don't know who is worse, the artist who did it or the exhibition that asked him to repeat it - they should chain them to a wall and leave them to starve !!

Someone sent me this poor little dog on an email with the petition, must say it upset me all day still can get his little face out of my head. Totally disgusting, I am amazed this has been allowed to happen!
Surely there are animal lovers over in his country who will hunt him down for this?  I truely hope so

My minds been freting about this all flipping day.
I say get in touch with ALF let them have a little chat with him..
Makes me so angry. 

I woke up about 3 am and was upset all over again, I thought about Rainbow Bridge and sad old person that I am hoped someone would love him there, Oh bugger in tears again!!!

It does break your heart thinking what he went through.
My tears very easily turn to anger. This inhuman way some people do behave.
Reading about those children the other day beating up that staff puppy was bad enough but personally this news puts that in the shade in my book.
The evil men do makes me shudder.

The poor little dog is suffering no more. 

this is so bad,makes me sick!
how can suffering be art???
i thought art was ment to be pretty pictures!!!

I missed your first posting - no you are not promoting him - I would never have guessed such a thing could happen unless told.  It is horrible to hear things like this but at least the more people who know about it the more people to stop such things with any luck.

This was highlighted earlier this year magica and many of us signed the petition, as already said it has also been e-mailed through other sources for many of us to sign too, (I've signed 3 seperate petitions already!) so there must already be thousands of signatures on this petition from all over the world, yet he still wishes to continue.

I expect he is enjoying the publicity not caring whether good or bad, all eyes are on what he is doing, I guess that is all he cares about. :-(

I had several people send me the petition but is it really real, has anyone checked with snopes.  If it was in France they have Animal cruelty laws like our own so surely the person would have been prosecuted, and someone would have reported them.

Brainless

Id love to hear it isnt real, I may be able to sleep at night! How can we find out?  I was thinking that, how could the authorities sit by and let this happen as word would have surely got out what was going on?

You should look here :-  http://www.snopes.com/critters/crusader/vargas.asp

Snopes says that it is "undetermined" and puts the case without showing the actual pictures - read the complete article.

Evil is done when good men do nothing.

There is a group set up on Facebook specifically about this subject & it has apparently been revealed that this was nothing more than a stunt - the dog was untied and released the same day the pictures were taken.

I saw an article about this last year and it had several photos in it and would not want to see them again :(

What follows is the wikipedia report on this:
In 2007 Guillermo Vargas took a stray dog from the streets of Managua, Nicaragua, and tied it to a short leash in an art gallery, titling his exhibit "Eres Lo Que Lees" ("You Are What You Read"). Photographs appeared on the Internet showing a emaciated dog, tied to a wall by a length of rope in a room full of standing people, with the title of the exhibit written on the wall in dog food. The outrage triggered by the exhibit spawned allegations that the dog had been left to starve to death; these allegations quickly spread internationally via blogs, e-mails, and other unconfirmed sources. However, other than a three-hour period during which the dog was on display as part of Vargas' exhibit, the gallery alleges the dog was not tied up, and was fed with food brought in by Vargas himself.[2] There are no indications in the photos of where or when they were taken, nor of who took them. Juanita Bermúdez, the director of the Códice Gallery, was quoted in La Prensa[3] as saying that the animal was fed regularly and was only tied up for three hours on one day before it escaped.[4] Upon conducting a probe, the Humane Society was informed that the dog was in a state of starvation when it was captured and escaped after one day of captivity; the Humane Society also acknowledged, in reference to reports that the dog had been starved to death, "the facts [had] been misconstrued in some news articles"; however, the organization also categorically condemned "the use of live animals in exhibits such as this." [5]

This matter was brought to the attention of the World Society for the Protection of Animals (WSPA), who investigated the issue found it had enough merit to take action, and are satisfied that no animals will be abused during the upcoming Biennial exhibition.[6]