A random case of artists advocating censorship: San Francisco closes Adel Abdessemed’s “Don’t Trust Me” exhibition.

The exhibit featured looped videos of animals being killed by a hammer blow to the head. Abdessemed shot the videos himself in rural Mexico.

Is it too on-the-nose to say, “duh, this video would get shut down in San Francisco?” The article’s author puts the exhibit’s closure in great perspective:

I think his work fails as art by its literalness alone, its moral muzziness aside, but people in San Francisco’s smoke-free restaurants may debate the matter over their steaks and lamb chops for some time.