Art and (Wo)man at Yale
 

Maybe you've been keeping up with the latest art flap at Yale University. I found this article in todays Wall Street Journal interesting:

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB120900328811040439.html

"It is often said that great achievement requires in one's formative years two teachers: a stern taskmaster who teaches the rules and an inspirational guru who teaches one to break the rules. But they must come in that order. Childhood training in Bach can prepare one to play free jazz and ballet instruction can prepare one to be a modern dancer, but it doe s not work the other way around. One cannot be liberated from fetters one has never worn; all one can do is to make pastiches of the liberations of others. And such seems to be the case with Ms. Shvarts."

No sooner did I put the previous article down ... Seems that Ms. Shvarts has a soul brother. Maybe they could, in the name of art, get together and eliminate themselves.

The Times

German Artist Looks for Volunteer to Die as Work of Art
Thursday, April 24, 2008

The prizewinning artist Gregor Schneider, enfant terrible of the German cultural scene, is looking for a volunteer who is willing to die for his

I often wonder why these activities have chosen to come under the category of Art.
I mean, can't these people affiliate themselves with philosophy, or eschatology, or simply make up their own discipline, like, say, provocatology or yukology, and leave Art alone?

Ilaria

Limbo they want to lead to.
http://bp0.blogger.com/_D-LZxhXlNXY/...s1600-h/24.jpg

Mike,

...and I thought that art has reached it's lowest point already...

Wau, really?! That's insane...but an interesting find nevertheless.