Work of Art: The Next Great Artist
Bravo | Release Date: June 9, 2010
CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
71
METASCORE
Generally favorable reviews based on 17 Critic Reviews
Positive:
12
Mixed:
5
Negative:
0
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
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New York PostLinda StasiDec 19, 2011
Season 2 Review: The producers of Work of Art have managed to take something that is never a big draw (excuse the unintentional cheesy pun), art, and have made it into something so enlightening and, yes, exciting that it's positively magical. Read full review
83
Entertainment WeeklyKen TuckerOct 13, 2011
Season 2 Review: Work of Art remains TV's most enjoyable high/low, art/TV example of...cultural hybridity! Read full review
83
Entertainment WeeklyKen Tucker
Season 1 Review: That's where the fun of Work of Art resides, in convincing viewers that egomaniacal kooks can make good and bad art, and yes, there are standards besides split-second opinions. Read full review
83
NewsdayVerne Gay
Season 1 Review: The judging process seems arbitrary - a couple of artists are penalized for being too abstract; someone who is even more abstract (let's just say this one likes cats) goes to the next round. Otherwise, a winner. Read full review
80
Pittsburgh Post-GazetteRob OwenOct 12, 2011
Season 2 Review: Like "Project Runway," there's creativity involved in this competition. And the fact that it's a competition, and therefore orchestrated and produced by necessity, makes it seem less fake-real. Read full review
80
Boston GlobeSebastian Smee
Season 1 Review: The show has all the necessary ingredients. It's fast-paced, it's mildly sexy, and you don't have to pay too much attention to get hooked - it just sort of insinuates itself into your consciousness. Read full review
80
Washington PostHank Stuever
Season 1 Review: I wouldn't have predicted this, but it turns out that it's a whole lot more fun to watch people paint on deadline than it is to watch them make deadline clothing ("Project Runway") or cook deadline food ("Top Chef"). Read full review
80
SalonHeather Havrilesky
Season 1 Review: Even if it slices and dices art into something consumable and therefore disposable, I love the audacity of Bravo's Work of Art: The Search for the Next Great Artist. This show takes all of the petulance and nastiness and passion of "Project Runway" or "Top Chef" and applies it to the rarefied realm of fine art. Read full review
70
TV Guide MagazineMatt RoushOct 12, 2011
Season 2 Review: Work of Art itself manages to elevate this often schlocky genre into an entertaining celebration of the process of creation, with some startling and visionary (and occasionally disturbing) pieces produced under intense pressure. Read full review
70
The Hollywood ReporterRandee Dawn
Season 1 Review: This is a show that will benefit from some fine-tuning. What it lacks in originality it should make up for in content, and in the end we all know that this is a franchise (of sorts) that has very good bones. Read full review
70
The New York TimesGinia Bellafante
Season 1 Review: The series is a free-for-all (a good thing), pitting representational artists against conceptual ones and so on. Read full review
70
VarietyGeoffrey Berkshire
Season 1 Review: Whether Work of Art winds up engaging with any of those larger questions or simply provides an addictive mix of catfights and craftsmanship, it certainly has the goods to become more than just a knockoff. Read full review
60
New York Daily NewsDavid HinckleyOct 12, 2011
Season 2 Review: Watching them through this process turns out to be surprisingly interesting. Read full review
60
Deseret NewsScott D. Pierce
Season 1 Review: It's pretty much exactly the same as a slew of shows that have gone before. Read full review
50
Los Angeles TimesChristopher Knight
Season 1 Review: Work of Art, which isn't as much bad as merely dull. Bad we could love; dull just sends us wandering off to the fridge, where inner essence consists of leftover meat loaf. Read full review
50
San Francisco ChronicleDavid Wiegand
Season 1 Review: A few of the others could have easily painted themselves toward the exit, except that some of the lesser talents are also some of the bigger personalities. And when it comes right down to it, that's what will keep "Work of Art" on the air. Read full review
50
SlateTroy Patterson
Season 1 Review: Each of them rolls the creative process, the finished work, and her public performance as an artist into an eager consumer package. They're all operators with soundbites on line one. Read full review
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