Apparently, yesterday’s story about a Yale art student’s art project was just a stupid piece of performance art:
A Yale University student’s bizarre claim to have repeatedly impregnated herself and induced abortions that she videotaped for use in a senior art project is a work of “creative fiction,” the university said yesterday.
“Ms. Shvarts is engaged in performance art. She stated to three senior Yale University officials today, including two deans, that she did not impregnate herself and that she did not induce any miscarriages,” a Yale spokeswoman, Helaine Klasky, said in a statement sent by e-mail to reporters. “The entire project is an art piece, a creative fiction designed to draw attention to the ambiguity surrounding form and function of a woman’s body.”
Okay, I’ll admit I was wrong. This isn’t a story about the death of art.
It’s a story about the continued death of the American university.
Though I’m guessing Bill Buckley wouldn’t be surprised.
April 18th, 2008 at 2:43 pm
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