There Can Be Only One

The recent Bad at Sports podcast mentions the Highlander briefly, which reminded me of my total mini-obsession with the TV show when I was in high school. Every day my brother and I would come home, make a couple of hot dogs and watch the Highlander on USA. We'd get so ANNOYED if this ritual was in any way fucked with: chores, homework, Mom wanting to discuss the day. Mom!

Highlander in mind, the BAS crew has a good discussion of Robert Storr's warpath through Artforum I mentioned a while back. Also, Ivan gives a brief but accurate analysis of why Austin falls short of being a potential national/international arts destination (in reference to a similar BAS discussion about why Chicago is perpetually ignored by the international art scene). One major point he makes, and one I agree with, is that the University of Texas art school is too stodgy. Here's my prescription: less painting, more video, more installation and more cross-disciplinary practice in the undergraduate world. But that's wishful thinking for a University that crushed a Herzog and de Meuron designed Blanton Museum.