Tuesday, January 25, 2005

But is it Art?

You will have to be a subscriber to the Chronicle to read the full linked article, but here is a bit...

* TWO ART PROFESSORS at the University of California at Los Angeles have retired to protest the university's failure to punish a graduate student who pointed a gun at himself in a classroom as part of a performance-art piece. One of the professors, Chris Burden, who was shot in the arm in a
well-known gallery performance in 1971, says times have changed.
--> SEE http://chronicle.com/daily/2005/01/2005012504n.htm