Yale to pull “miscarriage artist’s” show unless she admits it’s fake
posted at 2:54 pm on April 21, 2008 by Allahpundit
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But how can she? You can’t have a searingly incoherent indictment of the Patriarchy without real bodily fluids, can you? Or maybe you can — after all, we know from some of the blogosphere’s leading intellectual lights that fake menstrual blood is an instrument of “torture.”
Good enough for Gitmo, good enough for Aliza Shvarts.
“In this case, we will not permit her to install the project unless she submits a clear and unambiguous written statement that her installation is a work of fiction: that she did not try to inseminate herself and induce miscarriages, and that no human blood will be physically displayed in her installation,” Yale College Dean Peter Salovey said in a statement released Monday…
Salovey said that after he and School of Art Dean Robert Storr conducted an investigation, they determined two faculty members made “serious errors of judgment” and should be disciplined for the part they played.
“In one case, the instructor responsible for the senior project should not have allowed it to go forward,” he said. “In the other, an adviser should have interceded and consulted others when first given information about the project. Appropriate action has been taken in these two cases.”…
Last week, Storr issued a statement saying that Shvarts’ piece “is not an acceptable project in a community where the consequences go beyond the individual who initiates the project and may even endanger the individual.”
Doesn’t most of the Yale community support abortion as an act of individual autonomy, though? Why, then, this rather patriarchal reflex to the glorious right to choose miscarriage, even at the risk of self-endangerment? And how do the consequences “go beyond” Shvarts herself? Surely he’s not attributing personhood to…
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Don’t you think you should pull it if it’s NOT fake?
Tony737 on April 21, 2008 at 2:57 PM
Academia and Art Meet.
If its fake (but true), we’ll support it…
taznar on April 21, 2008 at 2:58 PM
More realistic.
Nethicus on April 21, 2008 at 3:00 PM
Yale can pull my finger
Wade on April 21, 2008 at 3:03 PM
Huh? Say what? is this still news? You mean Yale is taking this long to do the obvious…. Sheesh!
MNDavenotPC on April 21, 2008 at 3:05 PM
All in favor of placing Yale locks and chains on all of Yale’s doors, say aye. What sort of professors and students promote crap for subject matter and call it academia?
saved on April 21, 2008 at 3:05 PM
Win-win for her. She got what every artist needs to become a success, introduction. They pull it, galleries all over Soho and SF will be making her offers. They allow it, galleries all over Soho and SF will me making her offers.
Like most artists (any medium or bent) it isn’t what you know it is who you know. Marketing trumps talent any day.
Limerick on April 21, 2008 at 3:08 PM
This exhibition should be pulled simply because it is not art. Juvenile attempts to shock do not make art, they are merely annoyances that waste time. She should be given a grade of F.
rbj on April 21, 2008 at 3:09 PM
I know. That struck me as well. Unless he’s suggesting that the “donors” were somehow harmed or could have been harmed.
Esthier on April 21, 2008 at 3:11 PM
Coming to a theater near you – Shvarts v. Yale University – The Sequel to Roe v. Wade:
The Right of Privacy and the First Amendment demand that an “artist” be allowed to induce a miscarriage in furtherance of her “art.” And that said artistic display be allowed on University property.
OhEssYouCowboys on April 21, 2008 at 3:12 PM
Surely he’s not attributing personhood to…the baby?
Richard Romano on April 21, 2008 at 3:13 PM
That was unexpected.
Dash on April 21, 2008 at 3:14 PM
For my art project, I’d like to cover Ms. Shvart’s art with something from my body. As an artist, I think it would provoke meaningful discourse on the terrible sanitation conditions in third world countries.
George Antrobes on April 21, 2008 at 3:16 PM
That’s “fetus” at Yale.
Rick on April 21, 2008 at 3:19 PM
Evil, sick, disgusting, without merit… That’s if it is a “hoax.” If it is true, this should be the prima facie evidence that this young woman is seriously in need of mental health care.
As for Yale, is this what our elite educational institutions have come to? How, in any logical and righteous word, can this be accepted other than a heinous act and a plea for intervention?
Spike72AFA on April 21, 2008 at 3:19 PM
Yale did not want to move forward on this until they got a government grant.
Wade on April 21, 2008 at 3:21 PM
If she says it’s art, it is. You could still give her an ‘F’ if you wanted to, but there isn’t really any criteria for what is and isn’t ‘art’.
Asher on April 21, 2008 at 3:22 PM
here’s my idea for an art project.
I want to take 50 people in vegetative states (if I have to induce that I will) then I want to sit them (or prop them up) in front of canvases at varying distances, then shoot them in the head with varying calibers at different distances. The pieces will be titled things along the lines of man 60″ .45@2′ or woman 1 meter DE-Point Blank
C’mon…the more you think about it the cool you think it will be….Maybe I could do it with death row inmates. And make the titles
murderer 24″ 9mm@6″
starting to sound better and better
beefytee on April 21, 2008 at 3:23 PM
I hadn’t realized that there was an instructor who pre-approved the project…how irresponsible…what if this woman really did get pregnant every month then perform a home abortion…nobody, I mean, nobody in elite academia cares about anybody or anything other than advancing their liberal ideology.
JustTruth101 on April 21, 2008 at 3:27 PM
I think you need to cut her some slack. She appears to have been hit with the ugly stick a couple times and this is the closest she’ll get to some kind of pro-creation.
meandchi on April 21, 2008 at 3:28 PM
two faculty members apparently put this obviously mentally ill woman’s physical health and future productivity at risk…if true.
JustTruth101 on April 21, 2008 at 3:29 PM
That chick fell out of the ugly tree, hit every branch on the way down, then got thrown under the ugly bus!
Lehuster on April 21, 2008 at 3:29 PM
(i meant reproductivity)
JustTruth101 on April 21, 2008 at 3:29 PM
From the Fox News link:
Why should she? She got what she wanted – her questionable taste and mental state talked about all over the world. I think that was her plan all along. Had nothing to do with an art installation, but everything to do with getting her name ranke #1 in Google for a day.
KrisinNE on April 21, 2008 at 3:32 PM
c’mon…attacking her appearance only weakens the argument. So what if she’s so ugly an alligator wouldn’t eat her if she was wrapped in bacon and sprayed with cows blood. There’s plenty of legit things to attack her about…
never mind that she scares blind people…that’s not the issue.
beefytee on April 21, 2008 at 3:33 PM
Well it’s no surprise.
Creepy attention whore wanted attention and she gets it.
If she wants to keep shoving things up her flue, she should start with an IUD.
G-man on April 21, 2008 at 3:42 PM
how about an AIDS penis and then do lesion impressions on school vouchers….or a Hand grenade…that would make a pretty mess.
I really should have been an art major.
beefytee on April 21, 2008 at 3:50 PM
I think you guys are being too hard on Yale. This is one of the few times where a higher learning institute actually admits a mistake and *gasp* even punishes some of the liberal professors for their role in this debacle.
I think some big-money Republican Yale alumni supporter must have gotten on the phone with the president of Yale and said basically, “End this travesty or you can kiss my $2 Million per year goodbye.”
Even liberals understand the language of money. Its too bad they couldn’t get the banshee expelled.
jimmy the notable on April 21, 2008 at 3:55 PM
that’s difficult when she didn’t do anything “wrong”
beefytee on April 21, 2008 at 4:05 PM
i think i know where she went wrong, she should have placed a depiction of Jesus on the cross upsidown in a jar of urine.
RMC1618 on April 21, 2008 at 4:05 PM
It is troubling that outside sources (blogs, etc) had to bring this to light rather than Yale having the decency and integrity to monitor their own professors and students. It should have been stopped before this little art project got off of the ground.
It certainly appears that the college system in the United States needs to become more transparent so they can’t hide this type of decadence from the taxpayers who are keeping their schools open in the first place. The college administrators and professors must also be made more accountable for what occurs in their schools and classrooms.
Aliza Shvarts’ mom did a bang up job of instilling morals in her daugther. Something tells me we haven’t heard the last of this little artist.
Larry L. Sharp on April 21, 2008 at 4:10 PM
i think i know where she went wrong, she should have placed a depiction of Jesus on the cross upsidown in a jar of urine.
RMC1618 on April 21, 2008 at 4:05 PM
now THAT would have gotten her expelled…
by the way…that is SOOOOOO 1989…that’s the problem with you righties…you wouldn’t know avant garde if it kicked you in the pisschrist!
beefytee on April 21, 2008 at 4:20 PM
I’m not sure how many tax dollars go into Yale…I mean I’m sure SOME trickles in, but the VAAAAAAST majority of money at yale comes from tuition and donors.
beefytee on April 21, 2008 at 4:25 PM
Piss Christ. Baby in blender. Body effluent.
Sounds pretty nuanced to me. Such poignant context. These people really are our superiors. How can we become more like them?
LimeyGeek on April 21, 2008 at 4:49 PM
Mamma don’t let your babies grow up,
to be Yalies.
Between Taliban and getting credits for abortion, Yale is one of the last places you should send your kids.
Hening on April 21, 2008 at 4:52 PM
If she really did inseminate herself with the premeditated intent of inducing miscarriage, isn’t that a rather textbook case of the most cold-blooded murder?
LimeyGeek on April 21, 2008 at 4:55 PM
If creating life and wilfully ending it, for the sole purpose of smearing the remains over a plastic cube, isn’t murder, then I am officially hopping off the merry-go-round.
LimeyGeek on April 21, 2008 at 4:58 PM
c’mon…attacking her appearance only weakens the argument. So what if she’s so ugly an alligator wouldn’t eat her if she was wrapped in bacon and sprayed with cows blood. There’s plenty of legit things to attack her about…
never mind that she scares blind people…that’s not the issue.
beefytee on April 21, 2008 at 3:33 PM
just had to repeat it… LOL!
max1 on April 21, 2008 at 5:04 PM
Her parents must be so proud.
EEprom on April 21, 2008 at 5:13 PM
Surely a light tap on each wrist…
I agree, she has to be a lousy piece, not an acceptable project for any sensible man to undertake.
Oh, the “art”…well, if “not acceptable” then who cares if it fake or not? So it is acceptable if she admits it is a hoax and used ketchup? But it has gone well past the individual, though I doubt she is threatened other than by intervention to get her meds rebalanced. Seems that is in the interest of all, you academic weenies.
Harry Schell on April 21, 2008 at 5:19 PM
Oh man I can hear it now. Oh your Daughter! The Miscarriage Artist!
ronsfi on April 21, 2008 at 5:23 PM
#1. Artists aren’t good unless they’re bat shit crazy. Fuck even Ansel Adams had ADD…
#2. Artists aren’t good unless they’re bat shit crazy. Fuck even Ansel Adams had ADD…
beefytee on April 21, 2008 at 5:24 PM
No. Abortion isn’t legally murder. It doesn’t all of a sudden become murder because she impregnated herself with the intention of having an abortion.
That’s what’s bothering me as well. If abortion isn’t “wrong” by Yale standards, then how is her project wrong aside from the bio hazard issues?
Would they still be admonishing her if she were “accidentally” pregnant several times and video-taped her abortions?
Isn’t her attitude precisely the attitude pro-choicers want women to have in regards to an abortion, that it’s no big deal?
Esthier on April 21, 2008 at 5:30 PM
Yale should pull her funding if she does admit it’s a fake. How can you trust her artistic integrity after that. She’s a corporate whore sell-sell out if it was a stunt.
Egfrow on April 21, 2008 at 5:34 PM
Who can blame her for cooking this whole episode up? She resembles a hard-driven emo muskox. There were no donors. She did what she could.
INFDL on April 21, 2008 at 5:40 PM
This disturbs me…why is it that SO many emo/goth girls are either unforgiveably ugly, unmountably fat..or both? As a DEEP lover of heavy black eyeliner, fishnets and sub dermal ink, this saddens me.
beefytee on April 21, 2008 at 5:44 PM
True. I would argue this goes beyond mere ‘abortion’, however. This is premeditated creation of life for the purpose of destroying it. If that isn’t murder, then the loonies really have conquered the asylum.
Presuming she isn’t a phenomenally desperate lying attention whore, of course – which I haven’t discounted either ;)
LimeyGeek on April 21, 2008 at 5:47 PM
Emo/goth kids are well known for being depressed. Ugly chicks are naturally depressed and thus seek out others who feel the same.
Esthier on April 21, 2008 at 5:48 PM
I’m leaning more towards believing that she actually did put a friends sperm up her, never checked to see if she was pregnant, and then took pills that claim to induce a miscarriage.
Whether or not she ever actually got pregnant is another matter.
I agree with you that it should be, but technically it’s no different than the research on embryonic stem cells, specifically when they create them for the purpose of destroying them.
Esthier on April 21, 2008 at 5:54 PM
I’m pretty sure he’s not referring to the baby/fetus as an individual, but rather to the potential harm to the crazy art student that might harm herself by inducing multiple abortions over a short amount of time.
JadeNYU on April 21, 2008 at 5:59 PM
Either way, the very thought that somebody could even consider something like this for an art project is horrifying.
This girl needs serious help. Or a retroactive abortion.
LimeyGeek on April 21, 2008 at 6:01 PM
Give her an F for being an asshole and let’s move on.
Dave Rywall on April 21, 2008 at 6:01 PM
I can’t believe no one’s made a “fake but accurate” joke yet. First!
tneloms on April 21, 2008 at 6:04 PM
What’s the Honor Council’s take on this?
Is waste of space Shvarts to be reprimanded or curtailed by the Yale administration for failing to be dishonest? Is being a fraud now demanded of the students by their Yale instructors and dean?
viking01 on April 21, 2008 at 6:04 PM
Or, judge the art on its own merits.
The stated purpose of the art project was to engender discussion about the “ambiguity surrounding form and function of a woman’s body”.
In all of the discussions on all the various news channels, newspaper articles, and blog sites, that topic has never once seemed to come up.
So, regardless of whether it’s real or not, the project is a failure.
JadeNYU on April 21, 2008 at 6:10 PM
The medical term for a miscarriage is “spontaneous abortion.” If this bimbo impregnated herself and then “induced a miscarriage,” then what she actually did was perform an abortion on herself. There is nothing “spontaneous” about something that is “induced.” Isn’t there a law against that?
Also,I thought the feminazis told us that we HAD to legalize abortion because of all the dangerous home-style and back-alley abortions that were killing gazillions of women every week!
IrishEi on April 21, 2008 at 7:12 PM
I asked a smartpants of FR to define art as opposed to first amendment expression. She turned the question back on me. I ask the question again. Why is this considered art?
JAW on April 21, 2008 at 7:25 PM
As opposed to pornography.
JAW on April 21, 2008 at 7:26 PM
So much for abortion being a “wrenching moral choice”.
Gaunilon on April 22, 2008 at 12:21 PM
I repeat…Another reason to not send your children to an Ivy league college…Liberals will change when it hits their bottom line…In the meantime they will push the bounderies of common sense, decency, and anti-Americanism.
Nozzle on April 22, 2008 at 12:53 PM
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