THEY CALLED YOUR FAILURES ART: I was at Yale for most of my preceding absence; and so yeah, I’ve heard about Alisa Shvarts. (Why am I the only person I know who seems to care if she’s Jewish?*) I don’t have anything to say in public except–isn’t she just insisting, yet again, that something once considered sublime is really banal? My uterus is just as boring as my parents’ front yard. Even if you agree–does it trouble you that that stance necessarily produces the opposite of art?

*eta: Should probably have attempted to explain this parenthetical, even though my concern here is something I have a very hard time articulating. For whatever reason (Pharaoh, even??) I have a stronger emotional reaction to Shvarts’s whole deal if she’s Jewish–it becomes even more saddening to me. In other words, this parenthetical is about my emotions, not her actions.