When art and controversy meet: iPad-mounted tortoise edition

The Aspen Art Museum will open its $45 million facility on Saturday with the help of a buzzy installation: a pen full of live tortoises with iPads attached to their shells. Because, art. Apparently. Condemnation of contemporary artist Cai Guo-Qiang's "Moving Ghost Town Tortoises" exhibit has predictably come fast and furious. There is a Change.org petition to kill the exhibit (and have the iPads removed from the tortoises), and animal activists have taken to the museum's Facebook page to voice t...