In today's money hungry climate it is very good for a college to find
reasons to get rid of tenured staff. Especially if they have many years of
service (less pension to pay). When such fiscal considerations get
combined with the current mentally unstable climate there will be many more
such
I have talked with Saul about the situation as it’s unfolded the past few
days and months. It’s too complicated to explain in full here and not
really the forum for it but all the stories that have been reported so far
haven’t been the full truth. The Globe article being the furthest from it
and
*If Notes After Long Silence needs a warning, it's certainly not because of
sexual content. *
*Big Stick is rather stroboscopic--and so I could imagine a warning about
visually-instigated epilepsy. *
*But these are just aggressive, in-your-face, films, not unusual for the
time when they were
Dear fellow frameworkers,
I am heartbroken for Saul Levine. Nobody, least an open hearted and minded,
generous professor like Saul should ever be treated and hurt this way.
I find the battering of an accomplished artist and senior professor months
before his retirement after a successful
Hi, Scott. Cryptic! I’m sure the situation is more complicated than we know,
and am here only sharing information as I find it. The only counter narrative
I’ve discovered so far is the one published in the Boston Globe:
> Kim Keown, a former MassArt student who said she first saw the film
*PS John,*
*I'm hearing (and of course this would have to be the case) that the
situation with Saul and MassArt is more complicated than I'd originally
understood--and I suspect that there's an element here of things that
seemed passionate and committed to one generation now seeming outrageous to
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
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
John,
Thanks very much; I did not know about this. I first met Saul over 50
years ago, having started as film society in Cambridge that showed
experimental film; he was already an accomplished artist.
From the /Artforum /article linked to:
Last Thursday, MassArt released a “Campus Climate
*John,*
*Thanks for sending these links.*
*I just had a look at the two films that apparently caused the problem--and
realized that this situation is even more disgusting than it appears. *
*Check out the two films (John has supplied the links) and you'll see what
I mean.*
*Scott *
On Sun,
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
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