xoxoo love, loser American culture is obsessed with winning and success, yet it is fixated on losers. On August 10, 2010, in the final episode of Work of Art: The Next Great Artist, the reality television competition for artists, 1.48 million people nationwide watched as artist Peregrine Honig lost the final challenge. She came in [...]
By Alicia Eler & Patricia Herrmann Pop culture is replete with stories of young men realizing their potential and becoming heroes. In the first season of Work of Art, pop culture’s introduction to the heretofore secretive Art World, America was provided with the familiar hero’s story. In the tenth and final episode, The Big Show, [...]
By Alicia Eler & Patricia Herrmann American culture idealizes the beautiful boy as one who lives “between the innocence of babyhood and the dignity of manhood.” Unlike adults, he is alive to “enjoy every second of every minute of every hour of every day…” The beautiful boy can do no wrong. His natural habitat is [...]
I tried to sleep in today but I couldn’t. Typical. It’s 6:30am on a Saturday morning, and I’m out on my back porch staring at the sun and watering my basil plant. The other weekend I took a three-day trip to New Mexico for a gay wedding, and forgot to ask my housemates to water [...]
In Episode 8 of Work of Art: The Next Great Artist, three artist pairs were selected at random, and given an assignment to jointly create works of art about opposing forces. Peregrine Honig and Mark Velasquez worked on “Heaven and Hell,” Nicole Nadeau and Abdi Farah had “order and chaos,” and Miles Mendenhall and Jaclyn [...]
What does it mean to be an artist? Where do artists draw inspiration? That’s what the producers of BRAVO’s Work of Art: The Next Great Artist, decided to ask the artist contestants in this week’s episode, “Child’s Play.”
Creating meaningful art work on one’s own in a short period of time is hard enough, but working on a collaborative project with a team of artists who, as past episodes have revealed, do not share each other’s vision? I was shocked when I learned about this week’s challenge. The remaining eight contestants were divided [...]
Last week on BRAVO’s art reality TV show,Work of Art: The Next Great Artist, the artist contestants were given the challenge of driving three Audi cars from the Audi showroom to 47th & Park, and then making a piece based on their journey. The Audi drive was not only a cheesy challenge, it was a [...]
In last week’s episode, artists had to create a “shocking” work of art. Even Art World hardhitter Andres Serrano showed up as a guest judge. Before starting the competition, he gave the artist contestants a private tour of his work, including the infamous Piss Christ, a photograph of a small plastic crucifix floating in a [...]
There is Peregrine Honig my friend, and there is Peregrine Honig the Artist, who I follow on Facebook and Twitter, through Google Alerts, and on Bravo TV’s Work of Art. In Episode 3 of the show, 11 of the original 14 artist contestants were faced with the challenge of designing a book cover. Peregrine got [...]
St. Louis reminds me of Kansas City, Missouri, with its warehouse-filled downtown area, and its mix of the South and the Midwest. I took a giant … [Read More...]
