2022/09/25

No Vacuum Cleaners, No Feather Dusters: Tomás Saraceno Advocates for Spider Rights at Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum

● 25/09/2022
“Spiders have been on this planet for almost 280 million years, we humans only for 300,000. With this Open Letter for Invertebrate Rights, we say: ‘Spiders have a right to go to the museum, too.’”
– Tomás Saraceno, advocating for creepy crawlies at Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum. Thanks to the artist, museum staff agreed to “recognize spider webs as art” during the “Crawling Creatures” exhibition (that features one of Saraceno’s spider/web sculptures)
The Guardian
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