Michelle Malkin » Yale Says Its Artistic Prodigy Was Just Engaging In “Performance Art” UPDATE: Yale lied, it’s real, says freak

Yale Says Its Artistic Prodigy Was Just Engaging In “Performance Art” UPDATE: Yale lied, it’s real, says freak

By see-dubya • April 17, 2008 11:03 PM

No fetuses were conceived or destroyed in the creation of Aliza Shvarts’s assignment, they assure us, and shame on us for believing that they were:

Ms. Klasky went on to suggest that Yale would not have permitted a project of the sort described in the student newspaper. “Had these acts been real, they would have violated basic ethical standards and raised serious mental and physical health concerns.”

Don’t worry, wingnuts, she was just using menstrual blood and vaseline as an artistic medium. Happens every day. it’s art. You wouldn’t understand.

P.S. Yale’s art department has sure come a long way. Here’s the work of a guy who went there to study art in the 1800’s:

That’s Frederic Remington’s A Dash For The Timber. It’s about macho gay cowboys who are fleeing the persecution of heteronormativity. I believe the medium was oil on canvas, but it may have been menstrual blood on human skin. I’ll have to check on that.

UPDATE, AND BUMP: Miss Thang is doubling down and calling Yale’s press office a bunch of liars:

But Shvarts stood by her project, calling the University’s statement “ultimately inaccurate.”

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But Shvarts reiterated Thursday that she repeatedly use a needleless syringe to insert semen into herself. At the end of her menstrual cycle, she took abortifacient herbs to induce bleeding, she said. She said she does not know whether or not she was ever pregnant.

“No one can say with 100-percent certainty that anything in the piece did or did not happen,” Shvarts said, “because the nature of the piece is that it did not consist of certainties.”

Somebody’s lying here. Yale says she swore to three University officials that she didn’t do it, and now she says she did.

I know who I believe. And I hope I’m wrong. (What’s interesting is that, according to the Yale Daily News, even the National Abortion Rights League chimed in to denounce Shvarts’s project. )

UPDATE x2: Weak game. You’re going to have to train harder if you want to compete in the Pathetically Pretentious Collegiate Crazy Art Olympics.

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#292556

On April 18th, 2008 at 11:42 am, expat said:

What I find extremely distressing from the Yale types is that they do not find this behaviour in any way distressing. She can exhibit many dangerous tendencies and is celebrated instead of being institutionalized to see what type of help she needs. It is no wonder that the left keeps spiraling into the abyss. A truly sad affair.
#292560

On April 18th, 2008 at 11:45 am, FruNobulux said:

In a way, this “work of art” and Yale’s attitude toward it attest to the consequences of the Godless church of the left. Real beauty consists in the unification of contrasts. Real art should express truth through beauty — the attempt to unify the material and the Divine.

So when you have no truth, you can have no beauty, and when you can have no beauty, well, you get menstrual blood, urine and miscellaneous other body waste as art. What next, human sacrifices as “performance art”?

I’m certainly not an art connoisseur, but I can tell you there is something qualitatively different between, say, Monet’s “Rouen Cathedral” sequence and the grotesque garbage that’s often passed off as “modern art”.

Can anybody believe this is enduring “culture” in the league of Michelangeo, Tallis, Shakespeare? Will it be looked upon admiringly in 100, 200 or 500 years? I somehow doubt it will endure even the next couple of weeks.

The particularly sad part is the tragic decline in a once-great university to which this entire incident so eloquently testifies. Our grandchildren won’t forgive us, but I hope they can learn from us.
#292569

On April 18th, 2008 at 11:50 am, whm3113 said:

Again, we are feeding the trolls. She wanted our attention, and we are providing it. Shame on us.
#292620

On April 18th, 2008 at 12:24 pm, uffdaubet said:

Once again it makes me proud to proclaim,” You’re right, I just don’t get it.”
#292713

On April 18th, 2008 at 1:41 pm, Barry F. said:

That’s Frederic Remington’s A Dash For The Timber. It’s about macho gay cowboys who are fleeing the persecution of heteronormativity. I believe the medium was oil on canvas, but it may have been menstrual blood on human skin. I’ll have to check on that.

ROFLMAO

I’m glad I didn’t have any drink in my mouth, when I read that!
#292719

On April 18th, 2008 at 1:45 pm, Barry F. said:

As other have posted previously, either she lied in the beginning or she is lying now. But, she is the one insisting now that she used a needleless syringe to artificially inseminate herself.

I really don’t see what TheOtherSide wants to investigate, unless it is at which point(s) she actually lied.
#292776

On April 18th, 2008 at 2:37 pm, thewariscoming said:

Her last name is Schvarts? As in the racial epitaph used by blacks against Jews? Sometimes the jokes just write themselves!
#292777

On April 18th, 2008 at 2:37 pm, thewariscoming said:

Oh wait, I’m sorry, the term used by Jews against blacks.
#292800

On April 18th, 2008 at 2:54 pm, Misscheryl said:

joetimek said:
Typical Malkin Commentator.
So you were willing to give her the benefit of the doubt when she lied and had EVERYONE fooled? Except you of course. Enlightened liberals have that extra allele that enables them to detect lying. You just wanted to see us squirm.

I refuse to allow some liberal to dictate to me what is right or wrong or moral based on their belief system or lack thereof! It’s sort of like, “How to be the best pig in the pig pen.”
#293006

On April 18th, 2008 at 5:40 pm, MtsEdge said:

AlaskanGrizzly #50, slightly OT, I just sent an email to the president of the univ. in Maine re the flag desecration. I’m including it below.

“I watched with disgust the video of you and others mocking the veteran who attempted to protect OUR American flag. That’s right, it’s yours, too, whether you accept it or not. How could you allow the flag of your country to be desecrated in such a way? And the audacity of lecturing a man about free speech whose comrades bled and died to keep your speech free! You DO realize that were it not for the sacrifices of this man and all our military that you would NOT be able to do the very thing that you did? In any other country, you would have suffered severe consequences. I would expect that a University president would be able to grasp this elementary concept quite readily.

Breathtaking, and repulsive.”

Now, to take on the president of Yale. I am so profoundly disgusted by this student’s actions, that words fail me at the moment.