The Jan Blues

With school starting again, how could anyone be happier about the continuous snow and slush? I am struggling to write transfer applications, my third year of college applications, in a row. I should be a college advisor, lord knows I have enough experience. I have so much reading this semester I barely have time to check out the current exhibitions in Boston. The only recent news I have of the area is the closing of the Rose Art Museum at Brandeis University, which is strange because I was actually at Brandeis last weekend to visit a friend who goes there. The members of the student population that I met at various frat parties did not have much concern about their artistic community, but it is a great loss to the larger community, setting a horrendous precedent for universities across the country suffering from the poor economy. And they're going to have to sell their works at such low prices! Ah I hate it when art is treated like such a commodity, when the market goes, so does the business belief in art as a worthwhile investment. It makes me want to switch entirely to performance and youtube video art, forget painting, look at how monumental Warhols and Johns get treated when the money trail dries up. And furthermore art has still remained a lot more reliable than stocks. I'd put my money on Burden's smoking gun.