Wouldn't it be more appropriate to say "The Next Great Con TV Show"? Why blame the artists? The people selected from Bravo's open casting calls are just eager for the attention and money. They're performers. Entertainers. What's their con? All of reality is now a con in the sense of being packaged as entertainment via Reality Shows and other media. Berg is just mad at artists. It's envy pure and simple. He/she handpicks debris from the daily media chatter and then assembles a mosaic from it depicting his/her outrage as though it was a reflection of neutral reality. Wait, isn't that what Reality Shows do? And isn't that a con? Is Berg conning us? wc
----- Original Message ---- From: joseph berg <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Mon, October 4, 2010 5:11:33 AM Subject: Re: "...Mendenhall had reportedly met with a U of M art professor to strategize about the show and craft a persona of a tortured artist that would set him apart and appeal to the judges." On Sat, Oct 2, 2010 at 5:11 AM, William Conger <[email protected]>wrote: > Berg finds that mass-culture-market art is more about celebrity and posing > than > it is about art as such. What an amazing find! Berg has a view and then > finds > an example supporting it and then, by godly irrationality, he -- or she -- > concludes a universal truth applicable to examples. In ordinary > syllogistic > logic, a universal cannot be concluded from a particular. > > The Bravo TV show The Next Great Artist was/is not titled "The next Great > Art". > I think that Bravo should rename its show, "Work of Art:The Next Great CON Artist."
