But when Fieldhouse saw the bats he’d made, already works of art, turned into the creative expressions of 30 artists, he was blown away.

In November, San Francisco police found 44 bats with nails coming out of them, chained to polls around town. What does this have to do with art? Matthew Bajda says he made those bats as an ...

hand stencils and other works of prehistoric art can endure for tens of thousands of years on the walls of well-protected caves — but only if bats don’t hang out in the galleries. These flying ...