Growing up next to a slaughterhouse in Hersham, England, artist Sue Coe knew something was wrong. “The smell of hogs seeped into everything–clothes and hair,” she writes, and then goes on to describe a childhood encounter with a group of her neighbors, who were laughing at one moribund pig’s futile efforts to escape the compound. […]
Philip Tinari
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Art for the people
When Xu Bing was born in Sichuan province in 1955, the British American Tobacco Corporation, a monopoly controlled by the Duke family, had just folded up its Chinese ventures. In the years between 1902 and 1948 the company had not only introduced the very notion of cigarettes to China, but sold more than 80 billion […]
