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A group of protesters is objecting to an Aspen Art Museum exhibition that places iPads on tortoises. Here, one of the tortoises walks through an exhibition space on Saturday, August 2.
A group of protesters is objecting to an Aspen Art Museum exhibition that places iPads on tortoises. Here, one of the tortoises walks through an exhibition space on Saturday, August 2.
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ASPEN — A New York businessman and Turtle Conservancy board member is asking the public to stop supporting and attending the Aspen Art Museum until are removed.

Andy Sabin, who is acting independent from the conservancy, said Cai Guo-Qiang’s art installation “Moving Ghost Town” — which features three African sulcata tortoises that display footage of area ghost towns on their iPads — is exploitation.

Sabin said he intends to run ads in The Aspen Times calling for the boycott.

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