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New York Times 'Artstar' on Gallery HD: The Art World Tries Realism (the TV Kind) By Randy Kennedy May 28, 2006 To mangle a question from MTV's "Real World," what happens when eight artists, aged 22 to 68, are jammed together in a SoHo studio for a month, subjected to withering criticism, marched before wealthy collectors, ordered to collaborate, asked to perform... more |
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Art in America The Real (Art) World June/July 2006 By Constance Wyndham After the plethora of reality television shows bombarding our screens in recent years, featuring everything from top fashion models who critique wannabes to cleaning ladies who scrutinize the level of cleanliness in your home, it was surely only a matter of time before the camera turned its focus on the art world. more |
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Artforum Online "When I first started out in the art world in the '70s, the whole idea of a self-respecting artist waiting in line to be in a TV show would have been ridiculous," asserts Jeffrey Deitch in the opening minutes of the first episode of Artstar, Deitch Projects and VOOM HD Networks' reality television series set in the New York art world... more |
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Chicago Tribune Stroke of genius? Artists to mix it up on reality TV By Alan G. Artner June 1, 2006 A week after the season finales of "American Idol" and "America's Next Top Model," the United States is a nation in withdrawal. "So You Think You Can Dance" gives a temporary fix, and "Big Brother 7" is coming. more |
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Village Voice TV – Future, Unscripted Fall pilots: Real deal, or no deal? By Joy Press May 9, 2006 More than a year ago, the overheated art world got even more frenzied for a few days as the Jeffrey Deitch Gallery held cattle-call auditions for Artstar, an art world counterpart to American Idol. No one was quite sure if it was a reality show or some kind of performance-art prank. Nevertheless, it sucked hundreds of freaks and artistes out of their garrets... more |
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Artdaily.com Reality Show Artstar to begin on the Dish Network NEW YORK – The Dish Network will begin airing a reality show on its Gallery HD high-definition channel. Artstar proposes the following question: can the complexity of making new works of art be successfully presented in a traditional hour-long television series format? more |
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Flash Art Reality Bites - Television It probably had to happen sometime. On June 1st the art world and Reality TV will collide headon in “Artstar,” a new series that not unlike “American Idol,” aims to find the next big thing. Critics, curators and so-called experts will join host and tastemaker Jeffrey Deitch over the course of 8 episodes to put 8 artists’ artsiness to the test on Dish Network television. The winner will receive the grand prize of a solo show at Deitch’s gallery... more |
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Daily News He aims to win 'ArtStar' by playing to the gallery By Marisa Guthrie June 1, 2006 There are no second acts in American lives? Tell that to 68-year-old Sy Colen, a retired social worker from Brownsville, who in the past year has experienced a rebirth through, of all the things, the magic of reality television. more |
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is Rising Jamesville-DeWitt grad impresses as focus of reality TV series By William LaRue June 1, 2006 One photograph by artist Zackary Drucker shows the faces of two blondes staring haughtily into the camera, both wearing bright red lipstick, mascara and necklaces. more |
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Artnet Artstar Premieres on Voom HD TV One part The Apprentice, one part Art School Confidential -- that seems to be the formula behind the upcoming series Artstar, set to debut June 1, 2006, at 9 pm (eastern) on Gallery HD, the all-art channel that is one of 15 featured by VOOM HD Networks, as part of Dish Network’s offerings of programming for high-definition television (other such channels include extreme sports channel Rush HD and video game specialty channel Gameplay HD). more |