For 12 years, there's been a gap in one of Austin's murals. Will an image from an iconic Austin movie complete the picture?
. Yet the relative obscurity of some of those titles was absolutely the point: Lowry wanted to reflect the tastes of the UT community at that time.
However, the Varsity couldn't last forever. In 1990, Tower Records took over the building, and faced immediate outcry over plans to paint over Lowry's work. So the mural survived Tower, and then Follett's Intellectual Property bookstore as a tenant. Still, there were changes: After a major restoration removed the fire escape and drainpipe, the dangling Lloyd shifted to hang off theframe, and the row of celebrities was given a wooden stage to stand on, rather than drifting in midair.
Not quite everything. The repositioning meant the loss of the painting of the Varsity's frontage. That left a hole where's dancers once frolicked, and that's where the empty 13th frame was placed. The idea, according to Antenora, was to emulate Lowry again, and ask students what they wanted to fill the space. He expected a contemporary classic like,"so the current students at UT could go, 'Oh, this movie means something for us.
Until now. Austinites Paul Minor and Suzee Brooks have proposed filling the space with a still from Richard Linklater's Austin-made classic,– and more specifically, one of the late Teresa Taylor, aka Butthole Surfers drummer Teresa Nervosa, in her role as Pap Smear Pusher.
The proposal also has the support of Linklater and indie cinema godfather John Pierson , as well as Lowry and Antenora, who said,"Anything from
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