Silent Shvarts: Yale University Will Not Show Aliza Shvarts’ Art Project

Because Aliza Shvarts (that’s her actually working on the project) has not admitted, publicly, that -she lied- her senior art project was a work of “creative fiction,” Yale University has not allowed the work to be displayed:

Shvarts has not spoken publicly since Friday, when she defended her art project in an interview with the News and in an op-ed piece published in the newspaper. She did not return telephone messages over the weekend and remained silent Monday as time ticked away before today’s scheduled opening.

Since then, the University has disciplined two faculty members — the adviser, School of Art lecturer Pia Lindman, and one other — who knew of Shvarts’s project, which drew ire on campus and across the country last week when she first revealed its details. Yale officials have maintained that her project was an example of “performance art,” terming it a “creative fiction.”

But Aliza was all like, “No! I don’t know. Look at me. Abortion, abortion. Vagina. No:”

In her public comments last week, Shvarts rebutted that assessment, calling it “ultimately inaccurate” and gave no indication that she planned to capitulate.

“I started out with the University on board with what I was doing, and because of the media frenzy they’ve been trying to dissociate with me,” she said Friday. “Ultimately, I want to get back to a point where they renew their support, because ultimately this was something they supported.”

Whether or not Shvarts’s project is displayed, the Undergraduate Art Senior Project Show is scheduled to run from April 22 to May 1 in Green Hall on Chapel Street. The show will be open to the public at 10 a.m. today, according to the Web site of the School of Art, with a formal reception for the exhibit scheduled for Friday night.

She knew she couldn’t compete with the ultimate in bodily-fluid drenched performance art, “Two Girls, One Cup.” All art.

With Shvarts silent, project will not go up [Yale Daily News]