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Work of Art Episode Five: Art That Moves You

by Paddy Johnson on July 8, 2010
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What’s Work of Art’s biggest failure so far? This show has so many problems there’s undoubtedly more than one right answer but last week’s challenge and resulting eliminations left me feeling like it was their ridiculous assignments. Nothing’s going to top the shock and awe challenge in the bad idea department, but this week’s Let-New-York-be-Your-Muse-With-Audi didn’t do much to convince me that assessment was inaccurate. Until the results started to roll in.

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Work of Art’s Weakest Artists Remain

by Paddy Johnson on July 1, 2010
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BRAVO promised to send a Work of Art screener yesterday so I could view it in Canada but it never arrived. As such, readers won’t see a recap of this week’s “shocking” art episode. Judging by everything I’ve seen and read though, this episodes only further proves the complaining observations of gallery extras prior to […]

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Work of Art: Judging This Book By Its Cover

by Paddy Johnson on June 24, 2010
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This week on Bravo’s Work of Art: Design a book cover. Artists are designers? Contestant Judith Braun resists this idea, Miles Mendenhall takes four hours out of his day to read Frankenstein, and Erik Johnson is pleased his cover is also a tattoo already on his arm.

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The Shape of Things To Come: A Bleak Outlook

by Paddy Johnson on June 17, 2010
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Ryan Shultz puts his hands on his head in frustration. Whatever chance Bravo’s Work of Art had to make the public better versed in art circled the bowl last night in “The Shape of Things To Come”.  That education largely hangs on the judges and Bravo’s editing of the show, and neither did much to […]

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What Great Artist?

by Paddy Johnson on June 16, 2010
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Abdi Farah’s portrait of Ryan Shultz on Work of Art and Chuck Close’s Big Self Portrait, 1962 Please consider the above painting comparison a reminder to folks that willful suspension of disbelief is needed while watching Bravo’s latest search for the “next great artist” tonight at 10. Farah’s portrait was a finalist in last week’s […]

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Work of Art Bickering Begins

by Paddy Johnson on June 14, 2010
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Work of art contestants Mark Velasquez and Erik Johnson Clown portrait artist Erik Johnson just can’t cut a break and neither can his Work of Art competitor artist and curator Trong Nguyen. Last week we called poor sportsmanship on Nguyen after we read that he’d seeded the idea to Johnson that he should present his […]

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Work of Art Launches Blogs

by Paddy Johnson on June 10, 2010

Screengrab AFC One last post on Work of Art and then I promise I’ll stop talking about it for a week: Bravo launched blogs this afternoon for Bill Powers, Jeanne Greenberg Rohtayn and Simon De Pury. A few interesting tidbits that didn’t make it into the show: Jeanne Greenberg Rohtayn tells us Trong Nguyen‘s convinced […]

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