god knows what they'd do with the Blue Tape Kathy Acker and I made - and it's been freely shown publicly all over the place.

this is disgusting. infantilism just about sums it up.

On Sun, 1 Apr 2018, Michael Betancourt wrote:

It seems that these days the real crime is making art. Creating work that challenges assumptions, perhaps even works against biases is something that will always "harm" the narrow minded by forcing them to consider positions which make them uncomfortable. This situation sounds a lot like what happened here.

Michael Betancourt
Savannah, GA


On Apr 1, 2018, at 6:42 PM, John Muse <jm...@sonic.net> wrote:

Surprised that I haven?t read anything here on the recent news that Saul Levine 
"was pushed out of the Massachusetts College of Art and Design after 
administrators accused him of 'harming students' by showing his film Notes After 
Long Silence, 1989, to his senior thesis class.?

Here are a few resources:

Saul?s original post detailing his decision to ?[retire] from MassArt,? as he says, 
and his reasons: 
https://www.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10215932754649479&id=1165322620

The Artforum article: 
https://www.artforum.com/news/filmmaker-saul-levine-leaves-massart-following-dispute-over-artwork-74844

Indiewire article: 
http://www.indiewire.com/2018/03/saul-levine-mass-art-notes-after-long-silence-1201945678/

Saul?s Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/saullevine
Films mentioned in the Artforum article include "Notes After a Long Silence" 
https://vimeo.com/73242778 and ?The Big Stick / An Old Reel? https://vimeo.com/89886468

j/PrM

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