Bringing New Meaning to Creativity?

At least two great minds suggest that the news of a Yale University student, whose art exhibit will feature her self-induced abortions after artificial inseminations, is questionable.

"Please let this be a hoax," begins bioethics expert Wesley Smith's post, "Abortion as 'Art,'" today on Secondhand Smoke.

On Best of the Web Today, The Wall Street Journal's James Taranto wrote, "The Yale Daily News reports today on what can only be described as a sick joke." under a heading "Blood and Ivy."

The display of Schvarts' project will feature a large cube suspended from the ceiling of a room in the gallery of Green Hall. Schvarts will wrap hundreds of feet of plastic sheeting around this cube; lined between layers of the sheeting will be the blood from Schvarts' self-induced miscarriages mixed with Vaseline in order to prevent the blood from drying and to extend the blood throughout the plastic sheeting.

Schvarts will then project recorded videos onto the four sides of the cube. These videos, captured on a VHS camcorder, will show her experiencing miscarriages in her bathroom tub, she said. Similar videos will be projected onto the walls of the room.

Here's hoping that Smith and Taranto are on to something about Schvarts' twisted creativity for her sake and ours.

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