{"id":1833,"date":"2010-07-29T16:07:24","date_gmt":"2010-07-29T23:07:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp\/2010\/07\/jen_graves_what_the\/"},"modified":"2010-07-29T16:07:24","modified_gmt":"2010-07-29T23:07:24","slug":"jen_graves_what_the","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/2010\/07\/jen_graves_what_the.html","title":{"rendered":"Jen Graves: discourse deterioration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just as I feared. It&#8217;s not just Jerry Saltz. Bravo&#8217;s <i>Work of Art<\/i> is deteriorating the discourse. Jen Graves&#8217; <a href=\"http:\/\/slog.thestranger.com\/slog\/archives\/2010\/07\/29\/the-morning-after-mark-velasquez-is-eliminated-on-bravos-work-of-art-ive-been-crying-for-the-last-twelve-hours-so-forgive-me-please\">post on the last episode<\/a> is devoted entirely to what she thinks of the artists&#8217; personalities. She ended with:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>May the winner not be a douchebag. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Jen. Shake your usually admirable head to clear it. We care about art, remember? Look down and check the color of your jersey. You&#8217;re on the art critic team. Art critics don&#8217;t care who&#8217;s a douchebag, not that they would&nbsp; would presume to judge based on the edited clips of a reality TV show. (My last posts on the show <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/2010\/07\/work-of-art-so-you-think-whos.html\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/2010\/07\/bravo---artists-as-tools.html\">here<\/a>.) The question is, who&#8217;s making the best art, as far as the audience can tell, given the format. It&#8217;s Miles Mendenhall followed by Peregrine Honig and Nicole Nadeau. <em><\/em> They&#8217;re not necessarily the best artists, but they are the best reality TV artists this sorry season. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just as I feared. It&#8217;s not just Jerry Saltz. Bravo&#8217;s Work of Art is deteriorating the discourse. Jen Graves&#8217; post on the last episode is devoted entirely to what she thinks of the artists&#8217; personalities. She ended with: May the winner not be a douchebag. Jen. Shake your usually admirable head to clear it. We [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1833","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1833","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1833\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}