<p>I hear that Bravo is going to be showing a new reality show ( aka Project Runway) using artist as the fashion designers. They have been previewing it on Bravo the last month or so. It will be starting in about 2 weeks and Sarah Jessica Parker will be the producer (I think). Has anybody heard anything about the show? I'm kind of excited about it because my DD did an internship with one of the artist. Anyone know anything else? Plan to watch it? Or think its another stupid idea for TV????? Discuss.</p>
<p>I read an article about the open cast call already done while ago in the paper, I did post mentioning about it along with cash prize contest, can’t remember when, I will look up.
guess that’s how long it takes to bring the show on the air.
I was thinking back then, well, too bad my kid is not yet 18 it might be easier to get a small part in some weird shows than win prize money enough to pay for art school tuition.
don’t have nor do TV, I don’t think I will watch it. Let me know if it’s any good.
In the town now have big posters about “Jersey Couture” before that was " Basketball Wives" then " Naughty Kitchen" " Shear Genius “Home Sweet Hollywood” I do follow tacky subway posters with lotta shiny digi-pasted-in diamonds, pearls and stars.</p>
<p>so it was last winter I posted… maybe it isn’t too long ago</p>
<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/visual-arts-film-majors/839339-suggestions-hs-freshman-art-school-future.html?highlight=reality+show#post1063873025[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/visual-arts-film-majors/839339-suggestions-hs-freshman-art-school-future.html?highlight=reality+show#post1063873025</a></p>
<p>Here’s a link from a NYT article last summer about the show: </p>
<p><a href=“http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/20/arts/television/20bravo.html[/url]”>http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/20/arts/television/20bravo.html</a></p>
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<p>It looks truly horrible, and so long as my daughter and I are rooting for the same ‘characters,’ I can hardly wait to start watching it. :)</p>
<p>did sarah did styling for them girls? creeps</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=38470[/url]”>http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=38470</a></p>
<p>Interesting point, Bears. They don’t look anything like my daughter or her friends even in their Sunday best! lol</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=39953[/url]”>http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=39953</a></p>
<p>so it ended before I got to see any episode.
I guess they had to choose the winner with fresh face yet enuff credentials after all, thou it is sort of sad having to pull out HS awards ( edit: I just read in somewhere he did MWS… well…)
what bothers me is his bio does not say he is heading Yale school of art where should’ve his aim from two summers ago, nor any grad school.
what happens from now on?
winning this would help him in the long run or harm his reputation ( were you in THAT!?) is yet to see ( I am gonna go see the show!! he got two months run, what a luck for a newbie)
It is already kind of telling why this thing is tied to the Brooklyn museum, not Whitney.</p>
<p>I watched every episode with my daughter. It was just okay. My daughter and her fellow Tyler Pre-college classmates liked observing, criticizing and picking their favorites. But I don’t think it was a very relevant show or showed Art or the artists in a particularly positive light. They were given a task with time limits and…1, 2, 3, create! Then the judges stood around with a 100 yard stare, nodding slowly and blah-blah-blahing in artspeak. </p>
<p>I guess the best thing to come out of it is there is an artist who is $100,000 richer!</p>
<p>Abdi (the winner) said he is giving the prize money to his mom and when he needs money he will go to her! He is a very, very sweet kid, getting down on his knees to pray at various points throughout the process. They added a bonus to the prize. One of his works will be auctioned off at Philips de Pury. Wonder how much it will go for? Then maybe he can have some money for himself and money for his mom. I do think he grew a lot during the show but for the most part things had to stay pretty shallow with the short time frame they were given to produce their work. I saw the beginning and then came back towards the end. I am too sensitive to watch the artistic process turned into entertainment. Somehow its ok for me with project runway but this feels different.</p>
<p>They tried to play up lots of tension between the kid Miles and other contestants but in the end when the 3 finalists came together it looked like they genuinely liked one another. </p>
<p>At first I was kind of serious joking with my husband that I wanted him to go on the show. But after seeing what I saw, I don’t think it is for him. He moves too slowly for that frenzy.</p>
<p>I will buy and watch TV, even learn how to twitter vote for your hubbie.</p>
<p>And – for all you aspiring artists – they are now casting season 2:</p>
<p>NOW CASTING: Work of Art: The Next Great Artist</p>
<p>Work of Art: The Next Great Artist
Are you an emerging or mid-career artist with a unique, powerful voice interested in competing on a future season of Work of Art: The Next Great Artist? We want contemporary artists. Your medium could be one of many (or several of many) - painting, sculpture, installation, photography, mixed-media - we want voices that believe in their art and want the world to know who they are and what they can do. Please send your name, e-mail address and phone number to <a href="mailto:cableartcasting@gmail.com">cableartcasting@gmail.com</a>.</p>
<p>now on NYT !!
<a href=“http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/19/arts/design/19abdi.html[/url]”>http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/19/arts/design/19abdi.html</a>
Ouch
why is that the writer is saying basically the same thing I said but now I feel bad for the kid…
Does anyone know she meant “Tina” Chow, when said China? or was that how she was known around here? she was a teen model for Shiseido cosmetic when family was back in Japan temporary. so cute. our Edie. I was like, in grade school. awwww
edit: oh got it, China is the daughter of Tina and Michael. China is the second generation Tina. and was the host of the TV show, for the occasion, to mimic Tina and Basquiat thing.</p>
<p>The show was really pretty horrible to watch and I could barely stomach it, only morbid curiosity kept me going until the episode before the finale.
Is this what the modern art world is really about? Blech. </p>
<p>I actually think that NYT article was being too easy on the show. </p>
<p>You can still find the episodes online if you missed them bears and dogs:
[RealityTVFan.org</a> - WorkOfArt on Dailymotion](<a href=“http://www.dailymotion.com/WorkOfArt]RealityTVFan.org”>http://www.dailymotion.com/WorkOfArt)</p>
<p>See I don’t get you people. This show highlights art and artists and pays them money. What is wrong with that? Yeah, the time is short and frustrating but so what? Everyone has a deadline in life at sometime. I thought it was great that art is now being discussed by my friends, the newspaper and local talk shows in our town (all because of this show). The Brooklyn museum did this show to get in touch with a younger hipper group and it puts them on a national stage. Nothing wrong with that.</p>
<p>The nature of art itself, as some of us understand it, does not lend itself to a cheesy reality show. For you it works. For many of us it does not.
Long story short: it makes my flesh crawl.
From the artists I know (quite a few)…NO ONE thinks that participation on this show would be a good career move.</p>
<p>I think some people need to relax or get a sense of humor. I think to highlight the art world a little doesn’t hurt anybody. So it made your flesh crawl (really??? such a strong reaction. Bedbugs maybe?? just check. ) and the many artists you know don’t want to apply. OK. But just remember this is a very very hard time for the arts and museums. I think it fine to get people talking and thinking about art.</p>
<p>“really???” yes really.</p>
<p>Honestly, when it’s something you have been involved with for the last 38 years, your sense of humor starts to wain. I really don’t go for
the “hey it’s all good” approach to this sort of thing. It is NOT all good.</p>
<p>artmommy, chill
well, younger hip-er people won’t chose to go to Brooklyn museum, that is what NYT bi**h is talking about, and in the sad sorry cavernous museum, they’ve only given the kid this tiny room.
people can discus what they want and that is the beauty of this forum or life in U.S. in general.
you can totally say, oh but I think this Miles kid was cuter, that girls’ work was more of my liking, fine fine, nothing wrong with that.
^ pumpkin is not disgusted by the artist your D interned whom knocked out in the round somewhere thus you might feel somehow personal or something, but really, nothing to get upset about.
you are the one told us to discuss, we are doing it, no?</p>
<p>thank you for the link pumpkin, I can’t get to it till later, will see.</p>
<p>Oh I missed entire page 2…
I can feel what musica is saying but look, if there aren’t people like artmommy on our back, “really” really art world won’t survive and the certain high caliber artschool’s operational budget won’t either.
we all do our part, let’s all bi**h here and get it out of system, how’s that?</p>