Is this Art, Murder, or Insanity?

This is an example of a person who wants to use Art to shock and upset people. Her intendent was to get news coverage. I am guessing that when deciding upon what to do she thought what can I do that will be shocking and trying to push the envelope of the obscenity and decency laws. What she is doing is a perversion of Art and to my thinking should fail the course. If that is the best she can come up with it does not say much for the College. Then it is Yale and they think that anything is anti-establishment is good. Vulgar is Art and Beauty is bad.

The only thing I have to say to these insanity stories is this. Be careful who your friends are? If I knew these people I would not want to be within 10 miles of them at any given time. These people are down right scary and in my books that makes them untrustworthy. Stay away!

That is just plain weird. It would be one expensive project if it were true too. If anyone here watches The L Word, this totally reminds me of an art show that was put on where Bette worked... Provocations. I think artists do like to provoke people, but this one is going too far. Although, I guess it's in her legal rights to do that as long as she didn't do it to someone else.

I am an artist. I think this is SICK whether it real or not! It's gross.... What has gone wrong with some humans today?!? I am perplexed!

yeah, I just looked this up on snopes.com and there was a link to read all about it. Sounds like it's just a hoax to me, like they said "elaborate performance art". It's like she is trying to blur the line of truth and fiction with a really bad choice in topic. She might have just decieded to pick "abortion" as the focus becuase that is what would grab the most people's attention. Who knows.

Art is in the eye of the viewer, If she thinks it's Art let her do it, anyone can do anything he likes as long as it doesn't break the law.

Okay hoax or not...thats some pretty messed up stuff..And I agree that she is sick and twisted. I mean what would possess someone to do that OTHER THAN attention I suppose cause really thats just nuts.

It is certainly a very provocative statement, and one that leaves a bad taste in ones mouth, but it has undoubtedly provoked discussion as she intended so maybe she is very astute. No publicity is bad publicity for the modern artist. It has transpired that there was no evidence of any actual pregnancy at any point in the proceedings, and of course she is the only one who can be sure about how much she meant to really get pregnant and abort. I remain hopeful that this was just posturing rather than a serious attempt. If it transpires that she actually really had the intention to get pregnant just so that she could abort, then one has to question her mental health immediately. This is taking the idea that a woman is totally in control of her own body during the process of childbirth to a very undesirable conclusion, but maybe that is the point of the 'piece'. ie.to highlight what fanatical pro-choicers are saying. The idea is clearly to shock, the motive is not clear but to me it says that acting irresponsibly and then not taking responsibility for ones actions is a sickness of our society. Just my thoughts, I have no idea if any of this was in her mind...

It sounds like she is on the verge of insanity. This isn't art. Art is something that is appealing to others not something that is repulsive. This poor woman needs help and I hope one of her professors try to get some for her. What will people try to pass of as art next? Will they steal aborted babies and put them in a bubble and call it art? I sure hope this is a hoax and not true.

This is not art, it is sensationalism. An individual is trying to get your attention by offending your morals, something that is becoming harder to do every year. I don't care if she actually miscarried or not, she is a disgusting woman with no shame. Art is meant to elvevate the human condition. She just wants us to go screaming to the press, politicians, psychiatrists, and anyone else who will listen because that will make her famous, and when you're famous your art doesn't have to be good. Just look at Pauly Shore. Wait that's not fair compared to this chick Pauly Shore is Leonardo DaVinci. I've noticed this disturbing trend in the "art" world and it is disappointing. People call themselves artists because they have no other credentials and no one can easily dispute that claim. This is not an artist, this is a sick individual.

I think this is outrageous!! Where would a mind get this idea from? Even if she didn't actually impregnate herself and force miscarriages, she still thought about it, and that should be enough to get her committed. For one, that's a horrible thing to do to your own body. Miscarriages aren't kind to the human anatomy. The flux of hormones, added blood then blood loss, depletion of nutrients...why would anyone do something like this? And how could a college professor accept this work?