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In and Out of Love by Damien Hirst An exhibition at Tate Modern Gallery by Damien Hirst featuring live butterflies saw more than 9,000 of the insects die – approximately 400 a week. Many were killed during the five-month run after being inadvertently trodden on or brushed off visitors’ clothing. Thousands more died naturally during the exhibit, called In And Out Of Love, and had to be replaced. A spokesman for People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals said:

"Damien Hirst’s quest to be edgy is as boring as it is callous. It does not matter whether Hirst killed the animals himself or sat by while thousands of them were massacred for his own unjustifiable amusement. Butterflies are beautiful parts of nature and should be enjoyed in the wild instead of destroyed for something predictable and unimaginative."

This is not the first time the self-styled artist and Tate had run-ins with animal rights activists. His notorious exhibit "The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living" required the slaughter of a 14 foot shark before it was preserved in formaldehyde and unveiled to the public in a glass tank. The shark was caught and killed by a fisherman in Australia at Hirst’s behest in 1991. The Tate previously faced accusations of animal neglect in 2009 when an exhibition at Tate Modern by Cildo Meireles, a Brazilian artist, featured a series of fish tank installations, resulting in the deaths of 12 fishes.

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