Comments on: The ‘Work of Art’ Fine Print.

By: martin

martin — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 05:16:45 +0000

i wonder what the contract says about the cash prize and solo museum show in the event the show gets canceled mid-run… ?

By: c-monster

c-monster — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 17:28:22 +0000

@paddy: i guess this is their nod towards transparency. a 1/2 second screen flash at the end of the show… and yeah, these reality competition shows aren’t really about the subject at hand. they’re about the clash of personalities. really, a type of soap. i’ve always figured the competition activity on these shows was incidental (designing fashion, making food, cutting hair, etc.), it’s really about the drama of the people…

@jason: i don’t mind if it’s fake. in the same way i don’t mind that ding dongs are fake.

By: jason lujan

jason lujan — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 14:10:37 +0000

as someone who knows crew and staff who work on “reality” show (scare quotes are mine) the amount of manipulation by producers is so high that if you knew, you’d never watch these programs again, ever. they are a fiction.

By: Paddy Johnson

Paddy Johnson — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 12:45:59 +0000

It doesn’t bother me that the work is bad, just that that’s not the only criteria for elimination in the game. That personality is also a factor would also be fine with me, if they made that aspect a little more transparent. I guess that ruins the fun though.

Is that Jaclyn Santos wearing a hat? She barely looks herself.

By: marshall

marshall — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 03:50:54 +0000

I’d like the show more if the art was worse, frankly. The most depressing “character” to watch is Jaclyn Santos, because she obviously has a tremendous amount of technical skill (as a painter, and only as a painter), but its married to a completely imitative and derivative practice.

Have you read her own blog post about episode 2 and her “5th grader does Koons” rip off? It’s a catastrophe of hubris from someone with a serious case of foot-in-mouth disease.