Adel Abdessemed's Don’t Trust Me Exhibition Cancelled

This actually happened a week ago but I'm just catching on to it now.

The San Francisco Art Institute cancelled an exhibition by French artist Adel Abdessemed. The exhibition is "Don't Trust Me" and it involves 6 looped videos of animals being hit in the head with a sledgehammer. The 6 animals being viciously killed are a sheep, pig, horse, goat, deer and ox.

Killing animals is NOT art! There is absolutely no purpose in senselessly killing animals and documenting it. Bashing an animal's head with a sledgehammer - not art and definitely not humane. Shame on SFAI for actually agreeing to display this brutal documentary. If it wasn't for the numerous threats and complaints to SFAI, they won't even cancel the exhibition.

I understand that art can be shocking at times, and if done tastefully, it can be educational and revealing. But cheap shocks like this is disgusting and it's nothing more than the "artist" trying to gain his 15 minutes of fame.