She’s Back!

by Nina Shield | June 27, 2008 at 7:27 pm

Aliza Shvarts, she of the miscarriage art that caused such a stir at Yale a few months back, has been hiding out since April, even declining to come to graduation. But for everyone who hoped that her fifteen minutes were up, bad news.

Shvarts is back on the art scene, and not at any old two-bit gallery. No, she will present a piece at London’s Tate Modern this weekend. Considering that the Tate is also home to skull-encrusting, shark-pickling Damien Hirst’s cow and calf carcasses, it sounds like a great match!

Shvarts was invited by Seth Kim-Cohen, a Yale art history professor and curator of the event. The Tate is calling it “an unmissable opportunity to examine the relationship between culture and technology with a range of leading thinkers and practitioners,” but a spokesperson was quick to emphasize that Shvarts’ piece is “not going to be in the Tate gallery. Nothing is on display.” (Translation: “No abortion art, please. We’re British.“)

The event will not include Shvarts’ senior project, in which she videotaped herself during the supposed herbal-inducement of multiple miscarriages, for which the National Right to Life Committee called her “depraved” and a “serial killer”. Yale pulled her piece from display after she refused to acknowledge it as “performance art,” and everyone was ready for the whole debacle to go away forever. Some Yale Daily News readers continue to be disenchanted with the ongoing coverage:

File under ‘Not newsworthy.’”

Really, this is tabloid journalism at this point.”

Either way: fifteen minutes and counting…

Damien Hirst Says $100 Million Diamond Skull Is `Almost’ Sold [Bloomberg]
One Thing Is Certain: Right Now, Yale University & Aliza Shvarts ‘08 Are 100% Annoying [Jezebel]
Shvarts to present new piece at Tate Modern [Yale Daily News]
University calls art project a fiction; Shvarts ‘08 disputes Yale’s claim [Yale Daily News]

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2 Responses to “She’s Back!”

  1. Comments 09yalie Says:
    June 28th, 2008 at 5:27 pm

    hey ivygate, why is the John McCain campaign advertising on your site? I’d figure the Elitist Libruls at ivy league schools wouldn’t be their target demo.

  2. Comments Tully Says:
    June 29th, 2008 at 1:31 pm

    mccain needs all the votes he can get. he’s really fucked at this point.

    and isn’t all of today’s art just like 15 minutes type crap. either that or public art, the latter of which is rather impressive.

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