Three piglets used as props in an art exhibition in which they were supposed to starve to death were stolen from their makeshift gallery, a former butcher shop. Animal rights activists railed against the showcase by provocative Chilean artist Marco Evaristti, who was attempting to make a point about animal rights in Denmark. But he had to cut his Copenhagen show—called “And Now You Care?”—short after the piglets, encased by two shopping trolleys, were stolen. The pigs were given only water and were expected to live for about five days before succumbing to starvation, supposed to show what they face in Danish farms—where their mothers are overbred, meaning there are more offspring than teats. Evaristti said that when the gallery space was being cleaned Saturday an animal rights group visited, with the pigs being taken shortly afterward. Police are on the case but there have been no charges yet. “They closed the [unlocked] door while the cleaning people were cleaning the toilet,” the artist said. “After four minutes, they come out and it was no pigs.” He shut down the exhibition Tuesday, saying it no longer had “soul.”
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