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Bravo Announces Casting Call For The Untitled Art Project

by Art Fag City on June 30, 2009 · 146 comments


White Columns Executive Director and artist Matthew Higgs.

More than a year after announcing the development of a new reality show for artists, Bravo finally announces nationwide casting calls. Developed by Sarah Jessica Parker’s Pretty Matches Productions and Emmy-nominated Magical Elves, Inc., the reality TV project pits thirteen aspiring artists against one another in competition for a gallery show, cash prize and a mysteriously undefined national tour. New York’s casting call takes place at White Columns on July 18th and 19th, which has us wondering: will their Executive Director Matthew Higgs be a judge? Complete press release and casting call details after the jump. Artists located in or around Los Angeles, Miami, Chicago and New York will want to read through if interested in participating.

Nationwide Casting Calls Underway

NEW YORK — June 30, 2009 — Bravo’s latest stroke on the reality canvas brings Golden Globe and Emmy Award winner Sarah Jessica Parker and her production company, Pretty Matches, together with the Emmy-nominated Magical Elves (“Top Chef,” “Project Runway”) and Eli Holzman, to produce an hour long creative competition series among contemporary artists. The Untitled Art Project will bring together thirteen aspiring artists to compete for a gallery show, a cash prize and a sponsored national tour. Open calls for artists interested in competing in this highly anticipated new competition series will be held in cities across the country starting in July.

Casting Calls for The Untitled Art Project are as follows:

LOS ANGELES

Saturday, July 11 & Sunday, July 12, 10 AM — 2 PM

LA>

www.laxart.org

MIAMI

Tuesday, July 14, 10 AM — 2 PM

Fredric Snitzer Gallery

www.Snitzer.com

CHICAGO

Thursday, July 16, 10 AM — 2 PM

School of the Art Institute of Chicago

Sullivan Galleries, 33 State Street
www.saic.edu

NEW YORK

Saturday, July 18 & Sunday, July 19, 10:00 AM — 2:00 PM

White Columns

www.whitecolumns.org

For additional information, go to www.BravoTV.com/casting.

In each episode of the series, contestants will create unique pieces highlighting art’s role in everyday life, while they compete and create in a range of disciplines including sculpture, painting, photography and industrial design (to name a few). In working beyond their preferred mediums, artists will have to adapt quickly in order to succeed. Completed works of art will be appraised by a panel of top art world figures including fellow artists, gallerists, collectors, curators and critics. The finalists’ work will be showcased in a nation-wide museum tour.

The Untitled Art Project is produced by Pretty Matches and Magical Elves for Bravo. Dan Cutforth, Jane Lipsitz, Sarah Jessica Parker, Alison Benson and Eli Holzman serve as executive producers.

Bravo is a program service of NBC Universal Cable Entertainment, a division of NBC Universal, one of the world’s leading media and entertainment companies in the development, production, and marketing of entertainment, news, and information to a global audience. Bravo has been an NBC Universal cable network since December 2002 and was the first television service dedicated to film and the performing arts when it launched in December 1980. For more information, visit www.BravoTV.com.

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  • Jarvis

    i believe the “198 Million” figure refers to Damien Hirst’s sell-out of a recent Sotheby’s auction in 2008, and was included in their press release…. and not the cost of the show.

  • Jarvis

    i believe the “198 Million” figure refers to Damien Hirst’s sell-out of a recent Sotheby’s auction in 2008, and was included in their press release…. and not the cost of the show.

  • Jarvis

    i believe the “198 Million” figure refers to Damien Hirst’s sell-out of a recent Sotheby’s auction in 2008, and was included in their press release…. and not the cost of the show.

  • Joey Jo Jo

    Okay Chris R. stop trying to convince everyone not to go to the casting call so you get a good spot in line, you silly billy.

    I too have been watching this unfold and thought the idea got dropped after not hearing anything from those Magical Elves for so long. I think it will be fun to go to the call and even more fun to compete. I don’t think it will be sculpt Warhol’s head out of frosting, but it does raise the question of how will they make competitions in a medium not so easily adapted to time-based output?

  • Joey Jo Jo

    Okay Chris R. stop trying to convince everyone not to go to the casting call so you get a good spot in line, you silly billy.

    I too have been watching this unfold and thought the idea got dropped after not hearing anything from those Magical Elves for so long. I think it will be fun to go to the call and even more fun to compete. I don’t think it will be sculpt Warhol’s head out of frosting, but it does raise the question of how will they make competitions in a medium not so easily adapted to time-based output?

  • Joey Jo Jo

    Okay Chris R. stop trying to convince everyone not to go to the casting call so you get a good spot in line, you silly billy.

    I too have been watching this unfold and thought the idea got dropped after not hearing anything from those Magical Elves for so long. I think it will be fun to go to the call and even more fun to compete. I don’t think it will be sculpt Warhol’s head out of frosting, but it does raise the question of how will they make competitions in a medium not so easily adapted to time-based output?

  • Joey Jo Jo

    Okay Chris R. stop trying to convince everyone not to go to the casting call so you get a good spot in line, you silly billy.

    I too have been watching this unfold and thought the idea got dropped after not hearing anything from those Magical Elves for so long. I think it will be fun to go to the call and even more fun to compete. I don’t think it will be sculpt Warhol’s head out of frosting, but it does raise the question of how will they make competitions in a medium not so easily adapted to time-based output?

  • Joey Jo Jo

    Okay Chris R. stop trying to convince everyone not to go to the casting call so you get a good spot in line, you silly billy.

    I too have been watching this unfold and thought the idea got dropped after not hearing anything from those Magical Elves for so long. I think it will be fun to go to the call and even more fun to compete. I don’t think it will be sculpt Warhol’s head out of frosting, but it does raise the question of how will they make competitions in a medium not so easily adapted to time-based output?

  • desiree

    I went to the casting and you can be sure married or “older” artists were not considered.
    A few people were skipped ahead of the rest – obviously friends of the producers.

  • desiree

    I went to the casting and you can be sure married or “older” artists were not considered.
    A few people were skipped ahead of the rest – obviously friends of the producers.

  • desiree

    I went to the casting and you can be sure married or “older” artists were not considered.
    A few people were skipped ahead of the rest – obviously friends of the producers.

  • desiree

    I went to the casting and you can be sure married or “older” artists were not considered.
    A few people were skipped ahead of the rest – obviously friends of the producers.

  • http://wienergirlsusa.com bunny and minky

    will you be serving wieners at the audition?

  • http://wienergirlsusa.com bunny and minky

    will you be serving wieners at the audition?

  • http://wienergirlsusa.com bunny and minky

    will you be serving wieners at the audition?

  • http://wienergirlsusa.com bunny and minky

    will you be serving wieners at the audition?

  • Jack

    Hi, was was wondering if you could answer a few questions or tell me where I could find the answers please!! I did read the bravo site thoroughly, maybe I missed something. I would like to audition in new york but would prefer to go only on sunday – the site says auditions are saturday and sunday so does that mean we can chose which day to come, or that we must attend both? Also, when they mention “hard copy portfolio” do they mean a small black binder with 8 1/2″ by 11″ color prints of work? Any help would be appreciated :)

  • Jack

    Hi, was was wondering if you could answer a few questions or tell me where I could find the answers please!! I did read the bravo site thoroughly, maybe I missed something. I would like to audition in new york but would prefer to go only on sunday – the site says auditions are saturday and sunday so does that mean we can chose which day to come, or that we must attend both? Also, when they mention “hard copy portfolio” do they mean a small black binder with 8 1/2″ by 11″ color prints of work? Any help would be appreciated :)

  • Jack

    Hi, was was wondering if you could answer a few questions or tell me where I could find the answers please!! I did read the bravo site thoroughly, maybe I missed something. I would like to audition in new york but would prefer to go only on sunday – the site says auditions are saturday and sunday so does that mean we can chose which day to come, or that we must attend both? Also, when they mention “hard copy portfolio” do they mean a small black binder with 8 1/2″ by 11″ color prints of work? Any help would be appreciated :)

  • http://thomashellstrom.net TH

    Reading the application’s legal agreement the applicants are giving Bravo a lot of power: copyright of images submitted in the application (whether or not one is cast) and the right to perform background checks secretly that can be used on the show. Whatever one thinks of art and artists appearing in a game show context the applicants are already waiving rights.

    Also, what professional in the contemporary art world would want to take part as expert or judge? TV exposure can move jeans or fill restaurants, but can it sell museum memberships or move $30,000 paintings? One would think association with reality TV would damage a reputation. Or maybe I am being old fashioned.

  • http://thomashellstrom.net TH

    Reading the application’s legal agreement the applicants are giving Bravo a lot of power: copyright of images submitted in the application (whether or not one is cast) and the right to perform background checks secretly that can be used on the show. Whatever one thinks of art and artists appearing in a game show context the applicants are already waiving rights.

    Also, what professional in the contemporary art world would want to take part as expert or judge? TV exposure can move jeans or fill restaurants, but can it sell museum memberships or move $30,000 paintings? One would think association with reality TV would damage a reputation. Or maybe I am being old fashioned.

  • charles mcneel

    i was interested in the show until i read the fine print of the application. it asks for truthful answers to their questions, while disclaims it may and can portray participants in “disparaging, defamatory, embarrassing or of an otherwise unfavorable nature”. This show, in my opinion, isn’t about exposing good and true artist, but about exploiting and contriving the persons who will be executing their own creativity while giving up sole rights to the images to be altered by “program” to serve “its” needs. so im staying true to myself as an artist, and say no thanks to this “reality show”.

  • charles mcneel

    i was interested in the show until i read the fine print of the application. it asks for truthful answers to their questions, while disclaims it may and can portray participants in “disparaging, defamatory, embarrassing or of an otherwise unfavorable nature”. This show, in my opinion, isn’t about exposing good and true artist, but about exploiting and contriving the persons who will be executing their own creativity while giving up sole rights to the images to be altered by “program” to serve “its” needs. so im staying true to myself as an artist, and say no thanks to this “reality show”.

  • charles mcneel

    i was interested in the show until i read the fine print of the application. it asks for truthful answers to their questions, while disclaims it may and can portray participants in “disparaging, defamatory, embarrassing or of an otherwise unfavorable nature”. This show, in my opinion, isn’t about exposing good and true artist, but about exploiting and contriving the persons who will be executing their own creativity while giving up sole rights to the images to be altered by “program” to serve “its” needs. so im staying true to myself as an artist, and say no thanks to this “reality show”.

  • charles mcneel

    i was interested in the show until i read the fine print of the application. it asks for truthful answers to their questions, while disclaims it may and can portray participants in “disparaging, defamatory, embarrassing or of an otherwise unfavorable nature”. This show, in my opinion, isn’t about exposing good and true artist, but about exploiting and contriving the persons who will be executing their own creativity while giving up sole rights to the images to be altered by “program” to serve “its” needs. so im staying true to myself as an artist, and say no thanks to this “reality show”.

  • Weeno

    Waiting for this show is like waiting for a bomb strapped to your chest to go off.

  • Weeno

    Waiting for this show is like waiting for a bomb strapped to your chest to go off.

  • Weeno

    Waiting for this show is like waiting for a bomb strapped to your chest to go off.

  • http://zmurdoch523@hotmail.com Weeno

    Waiting for this show is like waiting for a bomb strapped to your chest to go off.

  • http://www.movingcompanies.us/interstate-movers interstate movers

    I’m more excited to find out the outcome of this untitled art project reality tv. @ Amory Blaine, your’re right, “this could either be very good, or very very terribly bad. For art. For artists. For eyeballs.”

  • http://www.movingcompanies.us/interstate-movers interstate movers

    I’m more excited to find out the outcome of this untitled art project reality tv. @ Amory Blaine, your’re right, “this could either be very good, or very very terribly bad. For art. For artists. For eyeballs.”

  • http://www.movingcompanies.us/interstate-movers interstate movers

    I’m more excited to find out the outcome of this untitled art project reality tv. @ Amory Blaine, your’re right, “this could either be very good, or very very terribly bad. For art. For artists. For eyeballs.”

  • http://www.movingcompanies.us/interstate-movers interstate movers

    I’m more excited to find out the outcome of this untitled art project reality tv. @ Amory Blaine, your’re right, “this could either be very good, or very very terribly bad. For art. For artists. For eyeballs.”

  • manuel g

    Depending on nothing.

    Reality show for artist is just the best thing ever!
    Great chance for artist to publish and great chance to discover the new Duchamp’s!

    Art on comercial mainstream tv that’s just perfect.

    Competion,
    Art award,
    Money and fame!
    + the TV comunity gets an eye on arts.
    maybe even educated.

    would like to be a bord member of that organisation.

  • manuel g

    Depending on nothing.

    Reality show for artist is just the best thing ever!
    Great chance for artist to publish and great chance to discover the new Duchamp’s!

    Art on comercial mainstream tv that’s just perfect.

    Competion,
    Art award,
    Money and fame!
    + the TV comunity gets an eye on arts.
    maybe even educated.

    would like to be a bord member of that organisation.

  • manuel g

    Depending on nothing.

    Reality show for artist is just the best thing ever!
    Great chance for artist to publish and great chance to discover the new Duchamp’s!

    Art on comercial mainstream tv that’s just perfect.

    Competion,
    Art award,
    Money and fame!
    + the TV comunity gets an eye on arts.
    maybe even educated.

    would like to be a bord member of that organisation.

  • manuel g

    Depending on nothing.

    Reality show for artist is just the best thing ever!
    Great chance for artist to publish and great chance to discover the new Duchamp’s!

    Art on comercial mainstream tv that’s just perfect.

    Competion,
    Art award,
    Money and fame!
    + the TV comunity gets an eye on arts.
    maybe even educated.

    would like to be a bord member of that organisation.

  • manuel g

    Depending on nothing.

    Reality show for artist is just the best thing ever!
    Great chance for artist to publish and great chance to discover the new Duchamp’s!

    Art on comercial mainstream tv that’s just perfect.

    Competion,
    Art award,
    Money and fame!
    + the TV comunity gets an eye on arts.
    maybe even educated.

    would like to be a bord member of that organisation.

  • lauraj

    Although I strongly believe that art and artists needs to be integrated more into American culture, I am not so sure this is the way to go about it. I think that concept will inevitably be downplayed in comparison to “technical skill” (in quotes, because it is SO subjective as to what exactly that is), which may ultimately put the artists in a position where they are forced to compromise their artistic integrity and aesthetic point of view. Unlike Fashion, art is not required to be functional, trendy or -god forbid-mass manufactured. What the art world needs now is grounding and structure, not imitation or quickly produced, poorly thought out work so that an artist is able to “win” an opportunity to show their work… This concept really just goes against what I think artists- at least the ones we might consider Masters of art- are trying to accomplish, which is to send a message- convey ideas that go beyond words- immortalize the times and events in which they live. These are things that cannot be rushed, cannot be temporal- a lifetime may not be long enough to truly succeed at this, let alone an 8 week reality tv show. I am very afraid for the sincerity of art in the future. Although in regards to mass media and pop culture art is considered a lesser of the artistic endeavors -under music and fashion mainly- i think the mystique of art should be preserved for its sake. Most of America knows VERY little about art and once it hits the mainstream, people will feel like they know everything about it because they saw it on TV. Sorry SJP, but i dont think this one is gonna fly- at least not in a good way for us true and deeply committed artists.

  • lauraj

    Although I strongly believe that art and artists needs to be integrated more into American culture, I am not so sure this is the way to go about it. I think that concept will inevitably be downplayed in comparison to “technical skill” (in quotes, because it is SO subjective as to what exactly that is), which may ultimately put the artists in a position where they are forced to compromise their artistic integrity and aesthetic point of view. Unlike Fashion, art is not required to be functional, trendy or -god forbid-mass manufactured. What the art world needs now is grounding and structure, not imitation or quickly produced, poorly thought out work so that an artist is able to “win” an opportunity to show their work… This concept really just goes against what I think artists- at least the ones we might consider Masters of art- are trying to accomplish, which is to send a message- convey ideas that go beyond words- immortalize the times and events in which they live. These are things that cannot be rushed, cannot be temporal- a lifetime may not be long enough to truly succeed at this, let alone an 8 week reality tv show. I am very afraid for the sincerity of art in the future. Although in regards to mass media and pop culture art is considered a lesser of the artistic endeavors -under music and fashion mainly- i think the mystique of art should be preserved for its sake. Most of America knows VERY little about art and once it hits the mainstream, people will feel like they know everything about it because they saw it on TV. Sorry SJP, but i dont think this one is gonna fly- at least not in a good way for us true and deeply committed artists.

  • lauraj

    Although I strongly believe that art and artists needs to be integrated more into American culture, I am not so sure this is the way to go about it. I think that concept will inevitably be downplayed in comparison to “technical skill” (in quotes, because it is SO subjective as to what exactly that is), which may ultimately put the artists in a position where they are forced to compromise their artistic integrity and aesthetic point of view. Unlike Fashion, art is not required to be functional, trendy or -god forbid-mass manufactured. What the art world needs now is grounding and structure, not imitation or quickly produced, poorly thought out work so that an artist is able to “win” an opportunity to show their work… This concept really just goes against what I think artists- at least the ones we might consider Masters of art- are trying to accomplish, which is to send a message- convey ideas that go beyond words- immortalize the times and events in which they live. These are things that cannot be rushed, cannot be temporal- a lifetime may not be long enough to truly succeed at this, let alone an 8 week reality tv show. I am very afraid for the sincerity of art in the future. Although in regards to mass media and pop culture art is considered a lesser of the artistic endeavors -under music and fashion mainly- i think the mystique of art should be preserved for its sake. Most of America knows VERY little about art and once it hits the mainstream, people will feel like they know everything about it because they saw it on TV. Sorry SJP, but i dont think this one is gonna fly- at least not in a good way for us true and deeply committed artists.

  • lauraj

    Although I strongly believe that art and artists needs to be integrated more into American culture, I am not so sure this is the way to go about it. I think that concept will inevitably be downplayed in comparison to “technical skill” (in quotes, because it is SO subjective as to what exactly that is), which may ultimately put the artists in a position where they are forced to compromise their artistic integrity and aesthetic point of view. Unlike Fashion, art is not required to be functional, trendy or -god forbid-mass manufactured. What the art world needs now is grounding and structure, not imitation or quickly produced, poorly thought out work so that an artist is able to “win” an opportunity to show their work… This concept really just goes against what I think artists- at least the ones we might consider Masters of art- are trying to accomplish, which is to send a message- convey ideas that go beyond words- immortalize the times and events in which they live. These are things that cannot be rushed, cannot be temporal- a lifetime may not be long enough to truly succeed at this, let alone an 8 week reality tv show. I am very afraid for the sincerity of art in the future. Although in regards to mass media and pop culture art is considered a lesser of the artistic endeavors -under music and fashion mainly- i think the mystique of art should be preserved for its sake. Most of America knows VERY little about art and once it hits the mainstream, people will feel like they know everything about it because they saw it on TV. Sorry SJP, but i dont think this one is gonna fly- at least not in a good way for us true and deeply committed artists.

  • http://www.flickr.com/photos/41257796@N03/sets/72157624499309347/with/4849713479/ Gio Leedy

    This reality show has been absolutely fantastic, both in entertainment and in education. As an artist, it’s been great to see what these artists are thinking and creating, as well as what the art world is looking for. Bravo!

  • http://www.flickr.com/photos/41257796@N03/sets/72157624499309347/with/4849713479/ Gio Leedy

    This reality show has been absolutely fantastic, both in entertainment and in education. As an artist, it’s been great to see what these artists are thinking and creating, as well as what the art world is looking for. Bravo!

  • http://www.flickr.com/photos/41257796@N03/sets/72157624499309347/with/4849713479/ Gio Leedy

    This reality show has been absolutely fantastic, both in entertainment and in education. As an artist, it’s been great to see what these artists are thinking and creating, as well as what the art world is looking for. Bravo!

  • http://www.flickr.com/photos/41257796@N03/sets/72157624499309347/with/4849713479/ Gio Leedy

    This reality show has been absolutely fantastic, both in entertainment and in education. As an artist, it’s been great to see what these artists are thinking and creating, as well as what the art world is looking for. Bravo!

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