updates
As much as some of us want the little performance artist who could bleed from her vagina, Aliza Shvarts, to just
go away, we feel obliged to offer you an update on the controversy. The senior art exhibition went up yesterday,
without Aliza's piece (which she claims
may use blood from self-induced miscarriages), and without much fanfare. Only people with Yale IDs were allowed to see the show. According to the
Yale Daily News, "In interviews with the gallery-goers, nearly all said they were aware of the controversy surrounding Shvarts's project, but had come for other reasons."
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updates
So it turns out that Aliza Shvarts, the Yale student who said she impregnated herself only to abort her embryos using "herbal" methods several times over for an art project, totally pulled one over on everyone. (Well,
everyone except Moe.) She didn't really get pregnant a bunch of times, and she didn't really give herself abortions. According to
a statement issued by Yale spokesperson Helaine S. Klasky, the entire stunt — Shvarts' press release, visual presentation, and narrative materials — was all part of Shvarts'
real art project: Proving people are gullible weenies.
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