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May 1, 2008

Shvarts submits alternate project

Aliza Shvarts ’08 has submitted another art piece in place of her controversial senior project that purportedly documented nine months of self-induced miscarriages, the University said this week. The announcement — which came Monday, a week and a half after Shvarts’ initial project inspired nothing short of a national controversy — puts to rest the question of...

April 30, 2008
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Breaking stalemate, Shvarts submits new senior art project

Aliza Shvarts ’08 has submitted another art piece in place of her controversial senior project that purportedly documented nine months of self-induced miscarriages, the University said this week. The announcement — which came Monday, a week and a half after Shvarts’ initial project inspired nothing short of a national controversy — appears to provide an answer to...

April 25, 2008

Bayer site to welcome overflow art

WEST HAVEN, Conn. — Next to the West Campus’ gleaming, brick-and-steel laboratory buildings lies an unadorned warehouse, clad in metal paneling and weathered from many a New England winter. To Yale’s scientists, those gleaming, state-of-the-art research buildings seem like the complex’s biggest prize. But art aficionados may argue otherwise. To them, that...

April 24, 2008

Official: No human blood in studio

As Aliza Shvarts ’08 remains silent about her controversial senior art project, a Yale official said that a scientific test found no traces of human blood in the Davenport College senior’s art studio, although there was no way to determine whether the project in its entirety had been examined. The disclosure came after The New Haven Register reported Wednesday —...

April 22, 2008

With Shvarts silent, project will not go up

As Aliza Shvarts ’08 maintained her silence Monday, the University kept its promise to forbid the Davenport College senior from installing her controversial senior art project in a public exhibit planned to go on display today. On Sunday, Yale College Dean Peter Salovey said Shvarts would not be allowed to open her exhibit unless she issued a written statement...

April 22, 2008

Prefrosh aware of, not dissuaded by, Shvarts saga

As the future members of the class of 2012 descend on campus this week, they will have endless concerns — how to locate Commons, which classes to attend, where to find the most crowded Bulldog Days party. But, despite worry expressed by students and administrators throughout the week, the now-infamous art project of Aliza Shvarts ’08 is not one of them. Outside...

April 22, 2008

And now, the other senior projects

Aliza Shvarts’ ’08 controversial senior art project may have dominated talk about the Art Department this past week. But today, 20 other senior art majors will unveil their final projects — with or without her. The themes and ideas behind the seniors’ work are profoundly diverse, and the show will feature pieces from each of the four concentrations in the art...

April 21, 2008

Yale threatens to ban Shvarts’ art project from show

The University will not allow Aliza Shvarts ’08 to display her controversial senior art project at its scheduled opening Tuesday unless she confesses in writing that the exhibition is a work of fiction, Yale officials said Sunday. The University, meanwhile, acknowledged that it has disciplined two faculty members for their role in allowing Shvarts to proceed with a...

April 21, 2008

Adviser no stranger to raised eyebrows

Behind every Yale art major, there is an adviser. With the recent media coverage about Aliza Shvarts ’08 and her incendiary senior art project, Pia Lindman, a little-known lecturer at the School of Art, has been thrust into the spotlight. But the attention was not wholly unfamiliar to the performance artist, who has raised eyebrows with provocative performances of her...

April 18, 2008

Shvarts, Yale clash over project

Aliza Shvarts ’08 was never impregnated. She never miscarried. The sweeping outrage on blogs across the country was apparently for naught — at least according to the University. As the news of her supposed senior art project chronicling a year of self-induced miscarriages was greeted with widespread shock on campus and elsewhere, the Davenport College senior traded...

April 18, 2008

Reaction to Shvarts: Outrage, shock, disgust

Anger and disbelief — mixed with several affirmations of free speech — rippled across the Yale campus Thursday in the wake of a report that a senior art student had created a senior project for which she repeatedly self-inseminated and, weeks later, deliberately miscarried. Many students expressed outrage when told of the concept, saying it transgressed any...

April 18, 2008

Harvard looks to Yale as arts model

A team of Harvard officials looked to Yale as a model for the arts in a visit to campus on Monday. Several members of the Harvard Task Force on the Arts, including students and faculty, traveled to New Haven to examine up-close Yale’s way of organizing and supporting the arts on campus. Task Force members, who toured Yale facilities and met with graduate and...