Manhattan Gallery’s Squeaking Floor Angers Rodent Lovers Natasha Millikan, a self-described mouse expert, at the Castle Fitzjohns Gallery on the Lower East Side, where she had shown up to oppose an art installation features mice beneath a floor that...
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Manhattan Gallery’s Squeaking Floor Angers Rodent Lovers Natasha Millikan, a self-described mouse expert, at the Castle Fitzjohns Gallery on the Lower East Side, where she had shown up to oppose an art installation features mice beneath a floor that visitors walk on. Credit Jeenah Moon for The New York Times By Sarah Maslin Nir Oct. 29, 2017 There are 70 white mice in individual boxes set like tiles on the floor of a gallery on Manhattan’s Lower East Side. In clear plexiglass cages, designed to be stepped upon, they peer up underfoot in an exhibition exploring phobia. To Natasha Millikan, a self-described mouse expert who squatted on the checkered floor on Sunday afternoon, her head pressed into her hands as around her mice shivered, chewed bits of wood or slept beneath her boots, it was an exploration of torture. “Mice are prey,” she said into her cellphone, to the artist, Joseph Grazi, whom the gallery owner had called at her request after she arrived from Jersey City to protest th
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