The XX Factor : art

Hope, With a Catch

Susannah Breslin — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 23:35:00 GMT

Today, the Smithsonian announced it has acquired "street artist" Shepard Fairey's now iconic HOPE portrait of Obama. A similar image of Obama by Fairey appeared on TIME 's Person of the Year cover , as well. Unsurprisingly, Fairey isn't a big fan of Obama's...(read more)

Do I Have to Be an Astrophysicist?

Kara Hadge — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 15:09:00 GMT

While I can't answer Melinda's question of whether the bar for mothers-who-do-it-all was always set so high, as a young twentysomething just starting out in my career, I can see that bar vaulting upward among the women of my own generation. With few glass...(read more)

Still Not Buying It

Nina Shen Rastogi — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 03:28:00 GMT

Well, I probably should have known that something was fishy when the Yale Daily News reported that “[f]ew people outside of Yale's undergraduate art department have heard about Shvarts' exhibition.” Yale’s not a big campus: When I was there, we all knew...(read more)

Called It!

Dana Stevens — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 22:25:00 GMT

Just after my post below speculating that the abortion-as-performance-art story was a hoax, a fellow Slate ster sent around this press release from the Yale public relations office, stating that Aliza Shvarts never really impregnated herself or induced...(read more)

Roe v. ...Yuck!

Dana Stevens — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 21:18:00 GMT

OK, I’m both resolutely pro-choice and a known oversharer on this topic, but that abortion-as-Yale-art-project item strikes me as genuinely repellent. It also strikes me as a scam. Though auto-insemination doesn’t always have to be high-tech and expensive...(read more)

Adventures in the Yale Art Department

Nina Shen Rastogi — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 19:16:00 GMT

Bloggers are expressing shock, disgust , and outrage at this Yale Daily News article, which describes one Aliza Shvarts’ senior art project: “a documentation of a nine-month process during which she artificially inseminated herself ‘as often as possible’...(read more)

Moss Graffiti

Amanda Schaffer — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 13:20:00 GMT

This weekend, a friend showed me artist Edina Tokodi’s incredible moss graffiti , which features moss in the form of animals like rabbits and deer and abstract compositions mounted on walls in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Tokodi’s work is a whimsical surprise,...(read more)