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  • Sculptor who shot dog for art film gets $750,000 for Central Subway art

    09/16/2011 1:41:57 PM PDT · by Baladas · 47 replies
    SF Gate ^ | September 16 2011 | Stephanie Lee
    A sculptor who shot a dog for an art film in the 1970s has won a $750,000 contract to create public art for the Central Subway. Tom Otterness, a Brooklyn-based artist, has created public art all over Europe, Asia, Canada and the United States, with an emphasis on New York City. But he garnered notoriety in 1977 when he adopted a black-and-white dog from an animal shelter and shot it to death with the camera rolling. The footage ended up in his avant-garde movie "Shot Dog Film." Otterness has since apologized, telling the Brooklyn Daily Eagle in 2008, "Thirty years...
  • FBI to Review Raid That Killed Mayor's Dogs

    08/08/2008 6:41:44 AM PDT · by Virginia Ridgerunner · 112 replies · 352+ views
    The Washington Post ^ | August 8, 2008 | Rosalind S. Helderman and Aaron C. Davis
    The FBI has launched a review of the violent law enforcement raid of the home of Berwyn Heights Mayor Cheye Calvo in Prince George's County last week that resulted in the deaths of the family's two dogs. The agency has begun "reviewing the events that occurred at Mr. Calvo's residence," said Richard J. Wolf, spokesman for the FBI in Baltimore, which has jurisdiction over federal civil rights investigations in Maryland. (snip) Courts across the country in recent years have ruled that it is almost always unacceptable for police to kill pets in the course of searching a home. Cases in...