"Let no freedom be allowed to novelty, because it is not fitting that any addition should be made to antiquity. Let not the clear faith and belief of our forefathers be fouled by any muddy admixture." -- Pope Sixtus III
Friday, June 17, 2005
Un-art update.
DEFINE ART: An internal investigation into the conduct of a UCLA graduate student who simulated Russian roulette during an art-class performance is now over and he is not expelled, the Los Angeles Times reported Wednesday. Two UCLA artist-professors left the university after student Joseph Deutch's stunt last January, saying through a spokesman that he had effectively terrorized his classmates. Curiously, one of those professors, Chris Burden, made his name in the late 1960s and early 1970s with a series of "self-punishing" performances in which he variously had himself shot in the arm, crucified on the hood of a VW Beetle, placed in the path of a flaming gasoline wave, etc. Mr. Deutch, by comparison, was only pretending.
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