Update: Tyler Art School War Is Oh So Real
A reader just sent in the following document, along with some photos of the trojan horse delivered to University of the Arts, after the jump. We’re hearing that UArts is planning a counter-attack…
… and we’re really hoping it involves accordions.
Previously: Readers Cameraphone: Tyler Declares War On All Local Art Students. Where Do We Sign Up?
March 18th, 2009 at 12:35 pm
Just finished a grad seminar at PAFA. For what it’s worth, there’s an excellent buzz of mystery as to how this horse was erected right next to the security guard yesterday evening, along with a broad, general amusement/ambivalence about what it all means. The notes were stashed in a hatch in the Trojan Horse’s belly, and the thing has been quite nicely engineered. The pressing question now must surely be – what will happen to it?
March 18th, 2009 at 12:40 pm
Graduates of the Tyler School of Art *always* show good art. Tyler’s program is very strong.
March 18th, 2009 at 12:59 pm
Don’t want to huff and/or puff AS but I vehemently disagree. Tyler’s program is very strong: true. Graduates of Tyler School of Art *always* show good art: false.
March 18th, 2009 at 1:00 pm
Oh So… tiresomely Tyler-ish.
March 18th, 2009 at 1:24 pm
@ Chi Ali
You’re right. I stand amended.
March 18th, 2009 at 2:01 pm
Now if only Tyler School of Art would wage a war against Tyler School of Art! Now there’s a real ugly building….
March 18th, 2009 at 2:33 pm
I go to the Art Institute of Philadelphia. We had one of those “gifts” placed on the second floor of our main building. The building manager was not happy as he tore off the tail and trashed all the fliers inside the horse. I’d really like to know how these students got it in there. Other than that, all the students who saw it thought it was great.
March 18th, 2009 at 7:39 pm
These individuals (and Tyler) may now need help of some good attorneys if these schools decide to press charges, among them trespassing, burglary and possibly breaking and entering). And the video surveillance footage from all schools would certainly come in handy.
Tyler – just relax… you are too elitist for this environment. You aren’t “it.”
March 18th, 2009 at 8:35 pm
There is retaliation coming from UArts and maybe just maybe it will involve accordions. Only time will tell.
March 19th, 2009 at 12:42 am
Well, it’s much more amusing than the Craigslist rantings, and doesn’t intrude on your Missed Connections perusing. I go to Tyler, and I have no idea what this war is based upon besides titties, flannel, hipsters, and some hard hitting comments on whose school has a better program, but I am SO excited to see what everyone’s counterattacks will be!
COBDESIGN – go drink some sleepytime tea then.
March 19th, 2009 at 10:42 am
@Edel Oh relax. This is just college kids doing what they’ve been doing for centuries. Reminds me of the cannon wars w. Rutgers and Princeton. This act was much more amusing than Tyler students sitting around Johnny Brenda’s looking disaffected in American Apparel.
March 19th, 2009 at 11:08 am
Everyone in this war loses when you are unemployed graduates of art schools.
March 19th, 2009 at 11:47 am
Tyler is a stupid stinky hippie school! I’m surprised the horse wasn’t filled with stinky dirty socks.
UARTS RULES!!
*This opinion has nothing to do with the fact that I was rejected for admission to that school, as well as being turned down by West Chester University arts program………….
March 19th, 2009 at 1:25 pm
Only in Philly do creative people get upset about other creative people having fun while making things.
March 19th, 2009 at 8:50 pm
FRANKLY, i care only about the titties and flannel. however, tyler kids are just so good at writing letters and building horses that i can’t help but like them the best! also, they’re smarter. and EVERYONE gets into UArts (with a $10,000 scholarship. so gay). HOWEVER, that is not to say that everyone who goes to UArts is a talentless dummy.. but as a whole they just have less talent and brainz than the tyler kids. yeahhh public universities!
March 19th, 2009 at 10:37 pm
Art school is such a weird alternate universe. The Tyler kids no longer have the extensive land in Elkins Park in which to scatter their cardboard sculptures. So sad, glad they found a solution.
For the record, Tyler grads occasionally get jobs. Occasionally.
March 20th, 2009 at 12:22 am
Some people *cough*EDEL*cough* have no sense of humor.
Typical bureaucrat-types getting worked up about lawsuits and not seeing any fun in a big janky cardboard Trojan horse.
Clearly, a lot of time was put into those things, and they’re sparking some form of conversation between Philly’s art schools. I think it’s hilarious, and frankly, I wish I thought of it first!
March 20th, 2009 at 8:26 am
Tyler needs to get over themselves.
March 20th, 2009 at 11:39 am
As being a human who has slept with someone from Moore, UArts, PAFA, and AIPH I gladly accept Tyler’s insertion to the philly art game. While forewarning their coming with a trojan was a nice gesture, simply pulling out of Elkins park would have done the trick as well. I look forward to the challenge.
ps- im gonna fuck me tyleree!!
March 20th, 2009 at 11:45 am
As someone who happens to be in the building where this prank was pulled, I fully support anything that makes me laugh the way this did when I showed up for work that morning…
Keep it up guys.
March 20th, 2009 at 12:42 pm
boooooorrrrriiiiiiinnnngggg!!!!
March 20th, 2009 at 3:01 pm
lame.
How unfortunate Tyler feels so threatened. I guess that’s why they see themselves at the bottom. Perhaps when these children grow up to be adults they will realize talent comes from within, not the name of your school.
March 21st, 2009 at 1:05 pm
Very clever. Of course the Academy students know the anatomy of that horse is all wrong.
March 22nd, 2009 at 1:07 pm
@number9:
*cough”Moron”cough*
What’s the going rate in this town for a defense attorney? Does anyone hear the word “expulsion”, or better yet “Tyler issues a formal apology tto the following universities:”
Oh, dear…
March 22nd, 2009 at 7:19 pm
I can’t imagine how much it hurts being so wrong
March 23rd, 2009 at 2:20 pm
Everyone I know that goes to, or attended, Tyler has a “holier than thou” attitude and thinks they’re a gift to their trade when they most certainly are not. Also being that they are apparently so much more creative than these other 4 schools couldn’t they have produced an original idea rather than ripping off a staple of the Odyssey?
March 23rd, 2009 at 3:03 pm
Everyone chose to go to their chosen art school for their own reasons. It’s unfair and arrogant to say that any school is any better or any worse.
As a UArts student, I found the prank to be kind of amusing, and really shouldn’t be taken so seriously.
I’m actually more appalled at this trash talking of each school.
If you attend any of these schools, realize that you are in a college, and you aren’t in high school anymore. So please stop acting like you don’t have your high school diploma.
March 23rd, 2009 at 4:31 pm
As an employed Tyler School Of Art graduate, may I say I don’t get this? Whatever happened to getting blunted, stealing a Star Crunch from the gas station and mailing it in during Monday morning studio crits? This shit smacks of serious effort.
That being said, them’s are some well constructed cardboard horses. I had no construction skillz. I would’ve turned that in as a project.
March 23rd, 2009 at 6:16 pm
If these Tyler kids were really acting in classic Tyler fashion, that horse would have had a humongous (i mean WAY larger than “whoa that’s big”) penis. Way to let us down, you noobs. Not even a sack.
And for everyone else: ain’t nothin’ wrong with a little bump and grind.
March 26th, 2009 at 1:24 am
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96Eqsd__QCM
June 16th, 2009 at 5:30 pm
As a Tyler Grad, and a working artist, i have a little advice for you kids of all schools. Any one who thinks another artist or art school has the wrong idea for having a “holier than thou” attitude needs to wake the hell up and get one them self. You need to think you are the best at what you do, and have a bit of a swagger to make it as a full time artist. I’m not saying be cocky, but be confident. And lets be honest every major art school in the US not just philly thinks they are the best. So lets stop fighting with each other, and lets pick a fight with Pratt. Any takers? :)