If the photos were horrific enough, what scares me is that people actually watched this dog starve to death day by day. What in the world is wrong with us?
It doesn't matter where this torture took place, humans watch this dog die on purpose without saying anything to anyone. Someone please explain this to me!

This self-proclaimed "artist" who is nothing more than an animal torturer, is not the only one who should burn in hell for this unspeakable act. Every person who saw the dog chained up, starving and unable to cry for help and did nothing, I hope there is a corner hot enough in hell for them also. This wasn't art, it was the most blatent and obvious example of what evil truly is.

As an artist, I am weary of the euphemistic double-speak and pretentious elitism that so many art critics and other trend-mongers hide behind in an attempt to intellectualize the behavior of Vargas and others of his ilk; they claim that his "work" is a legitimate free speech expression of the creative process and an exploration of the issues faced by the world today and the emotions they incite - in short, an exploration of reality.

This only proves how out-of-touch with reality these people really are; sure, there are starving dogs in this world, but there are also starving people in this world as well - should the proper "artistic" response to this issue be to restrain a starving man, woman or child to a wall in a gallery until they die in order to adequately explore this particular segment of "reality?" I should hope not!!!! But Vargas and his supporters think nothing of doing the same thing to a helpless animal, reducing that animal, its life (which has its own meaning) and its suffering to nothing more than another cruel and exploitative footnote in the history of humankind.

The good news (hopefully) is that Vargas and his "vision" will also become mere footnotes - he may be getting his 15 minutes, but his work is destined for the dustbin of history. If this is the sum total of what he has to say, then his is a voice that will be drowned out in the end. This is NOT art - in fact there is much out there that claims to be "art" but so little that actually qualifies.

If this situation had unfolded anywhere but in a gallery, it would have been recognized for what it is - sociopathic behavior. But because Vargas can slap the label "ART" across this monstrosity, he can hide behind his right to creative self-expression.

There is a similar (in that it features cruelty as art) exhibition taking place at the San Francisco Institute of Art - "Don't Trust Me" - a video that loops over and over and features a number of animals being hit in the head by a sledgehammer wielded by an unseen man. The name of the "artist" who made this snuff film masquerading as art is Adel Abdessemed.

Absolutely sickening.