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Aliza Shvarts

It turns out that Aliza Shvarts did hnot in fact do what she said she did.

The idea was that as  an art project, she used artificial insemination to make herself pregnant a number of times, and then caused herself to have abortions/miscarriages.

The material from which she then used as an exhibition.

Truns out that this was not quite true: the stoiry that she was doing this, the story itself, was the art project.


WND
WorldNetDaily – Grants Pass,OR,USA
The art major, Aliza Shvarts, told the Yale Daily News earlier this
week she wanted to "make a statement" with a "project"
including the blood from her own …



Yale Abortion Artist
AOL News Newsbloggers – Dulles,VA,USA
A Yale student named Aliza Shvarts, who is set to graduate this
year, has undertaken a strange and disturbing project that involves
artificially …



Sticking to the Bit? Yale’s Abortion Artist
New York Times – United States
Aliza Shvarts’s abortion art project sparked waves of outrage on
Thursday before the university announced that “the entire project is an
art piece, …



Abortion as Art at Yale: The Shrinking Half-Life of Hoaxes
Wall Street Journal Blogs – New York,NY,USA
As of this morning, the Yale student, Aliza Shvarts, maintained that
she “performed repeated self-induced miscarriages,” according to a
guest column she …



AP Entertainment NewsBrief at 9:50 am EDT
TMCnet – USA
Aliza Shvarts described the project in a story Thursday in the Yale
Daily News. She said she artificially inseminated herself "as often as
possible" while …



Tale of abortion as art at Yale proves fake
Buffalo News – NY, United States
Senior Aliza Shvarts told Yale officials Thursday that she didn’t
get pregnant and didn’t have abortions. But that didn’t stop an
outpouring of emotion as …



Shvarts, Yale clash over project
Yale Daily News – New Haven,CT,USA
Aliza Shvarts ’08 was never impregnated. She never miscarried. The
sweeping outrage on blogs across the country was apparently for naught —
at least …



Yale senior’s art show stirs controversy
Princeton University The Daily Princetonian – NJ, United States
By Kate Benner Yale University senior art major Aliza Shvarts has
caused an uproar at Yale and on online media outlets across the globe after
The Yale Daily …



Shvarts’ self-aggrandizing art project is evidence of a brain …
Yale Daily News – New Haven,CT,USA
Aliza Shvarts ’08 wants to make a statement. And legally speaking,
she unfortunately has every right to do so. But by aborting as many
pregnancies as …



Shvarts’ actions offensive on multiple levels, trivialize ‘right …
Yale Daily News – New Haven,CT,USA
Moral: Congratulations, Aliza: you have single-handedly trivialized
not only an entire generation and a half’s fight to gain and retain the
right to choose, …



Aliza Shvarts is a monster
 By Rod Dreher

Aliza Shvarts is the Yale student who claims — and I share
Ross’s skepticism about her veracity — that she repeatedly impregnated
herself and took abortifacient drugs as an "art project." Excerpt:
Beginning next Tuesday, Shvarts will …


Crunchy Con – http://blog.beliefnet.com/crunchycon/


Yale Student Aliza Shvarts Self-Induces Miscarriages for Senior …
 By Andrew – Hunter College

Fire-up your engines of belligerent indignation, here comes the
craziest sh*t you’ve ever heard: The Yale Daily News reports today that
senior Art Major Aliza Shvarts “artificially inseminated herself ‘as often as possible’ while …


CO-ED Magazine – http://www.coedmagazine.com


Aliza Shvarts
 By Dimensions Magazine(Dimensions Magazine)

Aliza Shvarts. A photo spread of Ms. Shvarts’ work was
printed in our February 2007 issue and on our website, along with many
other examples of student work. We do not maintain formal contact with
the artists or writers whose work we …


Dimensions Art Blog @ Yale – http://dimensionsart.blogspot.com/


Aliza Shvarts: The Other Shoe Drops
 By Warren Ellis

Had these acts been real, they would have violated basic ethical
standards and raised serious mental and physical health concerns.
Dimensions Art Blog @ Yale: Aliza Shvarts. Well played, that woman.


Warren Ellis – http://www.warrenellis.com


Aliza Shvarts ‘Abortion Art’ Update

Via Museum of Hoaxes, we have learned that Yale art student Aliza Shvarts is contradicting a Yale spokersperson’s claim that Shvarts‘ senior project involving serial pregnancies and…


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Warren Ellis » Aliza Shvarts
Beginning this Tuesday Aliza Shvarts, an art major at Yale, will
begin exhibiting    her senior project in which she documented a period of
nine-months, …


Aliza Shvarts – Dogpile Web Search
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Yale Daily News – For senior, abortion a medium for art, political …
Beginning next Tuesday, art major Aliza Shvarts ’08 will be
displaying her senior    art project, a documentation of a nine-month
process during which she …


Aliza Shvarts Creates Abortion Art and a Controversy – Associated …
Check out Aliza Shvarts Creates Abortion Art and a Controversy –
Submitted by    Mark Whittington at Associated Content.


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aliza.shvarts@yale.edu Yales News Website
webmaster@yaledailynews.com. Yales media    email …
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Aliza Shvarts – Mahalo
Yale University Art major and former high school valedictorian Aliza
Shvarts has    drawn controversy with a senior project allegedly
chronicling a nine-month …


aliza shvarts – Jezebel
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 …


Aliza Shvarts: Abortion Goo Girl Rants Against the "Patriarchal …
Teacher’s Pet, Aliza Shvarts, who saved her abortions for art, (
Yale Daily News –    For senior, abortion a medium for art, political
discourse) rants on …


Aliza Shvarts | NGI News
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Digg – Aliza Shvarts Disputes Yale’s Claim
I think that Aliza Shvarts demonstrated well the fact that the point
where a    zygote grows into a human is very uncertain and hard to
determine. …

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3 responses

  1. classmate Avatar
    classmate

    i used to go to elementary and middle school with aliza, and while we weren’t friends, it was a small school and she was in many of my classes. i remember her being eccentric, intelligent (in a very stilted way…nothing genius) but somewhat pompous and arrogant, occasionally bossy, and chubby with long frizzy black hair. she wasn’t unpleasant, persay, but definitely not someone with whom i would hang out in my spare time. she was kind of a loner, and many people did dislike her because she was conceited and condescending.
    in retrospect, i suppse that while the abortion art is definitely startling, regardless of who the artist is, its not exactly shocking coming from her. she was always kind of weird.
    funny thing is, i dont remember her being particularly into art class. like, when i think of her, i dont think “artiste”.
    i found out about this story after reading a blurb, a one-line quote in “Newsweek” yesterday. i recognized aliza’s name and, after googling her, found out about this.
    personally, i think her “project” trivializes abortion, and gives pro-lifers even more ammunition with which to attack a woman’s right to choose. it makes a heartbreakingly tough decision for many women into a “performance piece”, subject to ridicule and criticism. i understand the points she is trying to make in her artist’s statement, but the manner in which she actualized these concepts is absolutely repulsive.

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  2. tropp Avatar
    tropp

    marisaerin@hotmail.com, you claim to have gone to middle school and elementary school with Aliza: I doubt it. I am a teacher from the middle school that Aliza attended.
    Your comments are so inacurate, that it is obvious you did not know Aliza well, or if at all? She was awarded many well known and coverted prizes for art and science and literature. We used her poetry for school ceremony and to be printed in the graduation brochure.
    Aliza was known to be a gifted student , a generous hearted girl with a warm spirit. It is obvious she is making a bold attempt through art to say something meaningful, which unfortunately has been distorted in this media blitz. We are proud and will always be proud she attended our school.

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  3. Alex Lee Avatar
    Alex Lee

    I also attended school with Aliza, but we became best friends in preschool, attended the same elementary schools, Our moms were our Daisy and Brownie leaders and were also very close friends for a long time. I remember Aliza not only being gifted but very focused and well organized. Hell, she was valedictorian at Buckley and ended up at Yale. When she was younger she wanted to be a Supreme Court Justice but I am not at all surprised that she went into art. Her father is a very talented artist and she was painting in his studio as far back as I can remember, so from about 4 years old.
    What Aliza did was brilliant…. look at all of these blogs, articles, and even satire on this one project she did. IT GOT YOUR ATTENTION, DIDN’T IT?

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