More on Yale Student

The Yale student's project--see yesterday's comments--has created quite a controversy. See more at The Washington Post of May 3. Charles Lane, in his op-ed piece--The Art of Folly at Yale--speaks of "The politicized obsession with race, gender and sexuality; the denigration of canonical works by "dead white males"; the callow mocking of convention; the notion that truth itself is merely a construct of power and self-interest -- all characterize the study of art and literature in America's colleges and universities. All were reflected in Shvarts's rationale for her 'installation.'"

Renzo Piano reveals plans for new Whitney

The Whitney Museum of American Art revealed Piano's design for an addition to the Whitney to be constructed on Gansevoort Street in downtown New York City. Much work needs to be done, but the structure is quite a departure from the Marcel Breuer building of 1966.

Yale Student's New Art

You might have read recently about Aliza Shvarts, a senior at Yale University's art school. Her original project was said to include documentation of repeated artificial inseminations and induced miscarriages. The university would not allow her to submit her project unless she indicated that it was a fiction. She refused. She has now submitted a new project for her senior thesis exhibition. You can read about it more fully in the Huffington report blog.