Yes, baby tigers! They’re here from Ohio, as part of the “Ideal Pole” group show curated Bjarne Melgaard at the Ramiken Crucible on the Lower East Side. I stopped by to see them. Watch! It’s so much better than a regular cat video.
Sonja and Tanja are five-and-a-half month old babies whose father was rescued from a bellied-up zoo and whose mother comes from a home of “someone who had no business having them,” their handler Maria told me. Watch as they rattle the cage, run in circles and maul jackets, stuffed animals and each other’s adorable, snarling faces. Can you see how they’re going to grow up to be 300 to 450 pounds and want to kill things? Nature. Deal with it.
I was worried about them, but Maria says they really aren’t bothered by the people. They could care less. That’s a little worrisome, actually. Shouldn’t they?
UPDATE: Yeah, they should. There have been multiple legal and ethical concerns about the treatment and transport of the animals. Turns out you can’t just make yourself a wild animal zoo in the city any time you feel like it.
this is not nature, not in a cage and certainly not white tigers.
i also could "care less". lame. and shame on you guys for even covering it. the site really fell apart after its impressive rebirth last week.
Oh definitely. Site is in complete ruin because you don't like 1 post.
I'm all for free speech, but I'm seriously getting so fucking sick of the pedantic commenters.
Site is ruined, Mr. Turco, because you seem to have a hypocritical interest in right and wrong, given the respectable politic interests of the site. Didn't you also get sponsorship from PETA once upon a time. This is from the Humane Society:
"The baby tigers on display at the Ramiken Crucible gallery were prematurely removed from their mothers, transported to New York from a game farm in Ohio that has been cited for failing to meet minimum standards of the federal Animal Welfare Act, and are confined to a tiny barren cage inside an art gallery."
My beef is not so much with the site (which is rather dry lately) but with half-ass reporting like this. Clearly the writer knows zero about art (she didn't even discuss the artistic merits) and even less about the actual situation she was sent to report. It's just lazy and uninformed. Perhaps my ire was misdirected away from this so-called writer…but really, this is an article? If this is your new original content, please save it and go back to summarizing other websites' content. Reel your writers in or get better ones who can actually, you know, provide from insight other than 'oh look baby tigers!'. It's embarrassing.
And please excuse my english (not my first tongue). But mine was hardly a pedantic comment. The site and the writer were flippant about something that was:
1) artistically inane and
2) actually (and very obviously) cruel to anyone who's not a sick or shallow asshole
Why waste your time on nonsense like this?