Peter with this excellent spot-on essay on bleeding art's soul out and then filling the void with text, text, text.

"Young MFAs are required to read endless texts, many written more than 20 years ago by stuffy Frenchmen with navel-gazing theories holding little or no relevance to life in Bush's America. They are then asked to somehow relate their work to these deconstructionist theories and then be judged by how successfully they do this."

and just realizing that a year ago I would not have given one thread of a tightly knitted shit (I just made that one up- pretty good, eh - I was inspired by George Orwell) about an article about god damn art students. And now I do. Sigh.