I would like to propose a Flash Points blog post entitled:

You Are What You Read: When the Ethics of Art blurs the lines of Reason, Hypocrisy, and Mass Manipulation.

I wrote this blog last year in response to Guillermo ‘Habacuc’ Vargas’s ‘Exposición No.1’ that took place in Galería Códice in Managua Nicaragua. The Costa Rican artist supposedly exhibited a tied up emaciated street dog in the gallery and starved it to death.
The Internet was flooded with blogs of outraged people seeking to condemn the artist, and a petition was generated as well that called for the artist to be banned from exhibiting his work in an upcoming Central American Biennial. This petition had over 4 million signatures from people all over the world. The exhibit had enormous ethical implications on art and in my point of view is the most important and controversial art exhibit dealing with the topic of ethics in art.

The present form of the blog can be shortened into more of a commentary format rather than the research format it is in now. Please take a look at my blog at:

http://davidyanezwritingessays.blogspot.com/2009/03/you-are-what-you-read-when-ethics-of.html

Thank you for your consideration,

David Yanez