More on Bravo’s “Untiteld Art Shenanigan”

More updates, mostly via C-Monster’s digest.  Above, video from a Wall Street Journal article covering the casting call at White Columns.  Can we get a ban on the use of the term “starving artists”, please?

The NY Times coverage of the White Columns casting call confirms what I’ve been hearing about the one in LA – lots of folks are coming in from out of town to compete.  People are really, really, seriously excited about possibly getting on the show.  About 400 folks applied.

Note: both the WSJ and the NY Times felt it necessary to mention in their articles that there was an artist in line painting blue swirls on a topless woman.  Good to see that both papers know how to focus on the substantive issues.

Anaba follows Arnold Weschler to the folding plastic table of judging.

No news out of Miami as of yet, but Artlurker has a great piece revisiting Deitch Project’s ARTSTAR, in the context of the upcoming Bravo greatness.

On the home front, here in LA, what I’m hearing via “game of telephone” (so take with grain of salt) from someone who went through the process was that they’re “looking for someone who can do everything”, as in an artist who paints, sculpts, etc…  Which of course lines up exactly with the kind of specialized craftsmanship that I’d associate most directly with a serious, professional art practice.  Apparently those who made it through the round one portfolio review have been sent back to their studios for one month to produce a piece of art, which will then be presented in round two.  Oh, and the application was 23 pages long.

UPDATE: I got some clarification, LA applicants were given 3 business days to conceive, execute, and document their projects. DVDs were due back to Bravo the Wednesday following the tryouts. It’s the judging of those projects that may be in a month.

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