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Work of Art: Opposites Attract a Litany of Common Art World Myths

by Paddy Johnson on July 29, 2010

I hope Bravo re-calibrates its search for art that makes the viewer “feel” something because it seems to encourage the absurd amount of bad portraiture. This ranges from Abdi’s race car driver to this weeks slew of shirtless and pantless portraits. None were any good. Still, this episode offered the capable Ryan McGinness as the guest […]

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The "Work of Art" Exit Interview: Ryan Shultz – ARTINFO.com

by Art Fag City on July 25, 2010

The "Work of Art" Exit Interview: Ryan Shultz – ARTINFO.com – Work of Art contestant Ryan Shultz says I hate him. In actuality, I liked him more than most, I just don't like his work. I also took issue with his calling Realism a medium (it's a genre). A smarter editor than the ones Bravo […]

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Last Night, on "Work of Art": Cults and Crayola – ARTINFO.com

by Art Fag City on July 23, 2010

Last Night, on "Work of Art": Cults and Crayola – ARTINFO.com – These artinfo round ups are pretty funny.

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The Work of Art Recap: The World’s Lost Central Art District

by Paddy Johnson on July 22, 2010

“Welcome to Soho, one of the central art districts in the world” explains auctioneer and mentor Simon de Pury to Work of Art contestants, his own company located in the actual central art district, Chelsea. De Pury gave artists a tour of the Kenneth Cole lined streets for this weeks episode, his voice over adding […]

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The Road to Better Challenges: The Art Fag City/C-Monster Work of Art Proposal

by Paddy Johnson on July 19, 2010

Who wants to see better challenges on Bravo’s reality show Work of Art? Judging by critic Jerry Saltz’ 300 plus Facebook comments on the subject, I’m guessing most of us. Prompted by this clear calling, I teamed up with Carolina A. Miranda of C-Monster.net fame to propose a few suggestions for the Bravo Team.

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Work of Art Recap: The Art Pussy Escapes Elimination

by Paddy Johnson on July 15, 2010

I’ve come to the conclusion that I’d be much happier if Work of Art were a PBS style reality show a la Frontier House with a series of art historians and critics discussing the realities of art world as we watch the struggling members of the art world. I like drama as much as the next person, but I found Bravo’s focus on artistic disputes at the expense the art particularly disheartening in this week’s public art challenge. Too many of its participants will be left scarred by this show.

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Work of Art on Bravo is actually good – The Daily Beast

by Art Fag City on July 9, 2010

Work of Art on Bravo is actually good – The Daily Beast – A generous take from Richard Phillips: Unlike the unending chain of non-reflexive biennial productions by celebrity curators, the reality show producers succeed. Work of Art: The Next Great Artist is the new Anti-Aesthetic to the self-obsessed and parasitically over-professionalized Art World.

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Work of Art Episode Five: Art That Moves You

by Paddy Johnson on July 8, 2010

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

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

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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