TWO MEN MARRY A TREE

In 2009, Houston-based artist duo The Art Guys wed an oak sapling tree at the Museum of Fine Art's Cullen Sculpture Garden to raise questions about man’s relationship to nature.

The wedding to a plant resurfaced again after the picture art was removed from an art collectors place named ''Menil Collection''.

When the Art Guys married their sapling, "the whole thing was an environmentalist gesture," The Believer expressed in their profile of the duo. Yet critics of the work refused to see how the act could exist separate from the heated climate of the gay marriage debate, even though both artists were already married to women. Many accused the work of belittling gay marriage and encouraging homophobic logic, namely former Houston Chronicle art critic Douglas Britt. In his review, Britt, who himself is gay, argued the work "reinforces the 'slippery slope' argument that if we let gays wed, next we’ll allow people to marry animals, and so on."

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