Casting began in the wee hours of Saturday morning in the West Village, when Jeff Lipsky, a 37-year-old painter and digital artist from Tyngsboro, Mass., unfolded his New England Patriots lawn chair and camped out for the night in front of the White Columns gallery, first in line to audition for a new reality show being created for Bravo. Produced by Sarah Jessica Parker, the show, which doesn’t have a title or a broadcast date yet.
The 13 finalists eventually chosen — from among hundreds who have already auditioned in Los Angeles, Miami, Chicago and hundreds more expected in New York — will compete for a gallery show, a cash prize and a sponsored national museum tour, though the producers have not yet revealed how much money is at stake or which museums or galleries will participate.
The identity of the judges has not been disclosed, though they are described as curators, artists, dealers, teachers and collectors “whose names people in the art world would certainly recognize.” one judge we do know is Simon de Pury, chairman of the auction house Phillips de Pury. He said that he did not hesitate when asked to become involved and that his hope for the show was that it would help penetrate the air of “hermetic inapproachability” surrounding the contemporary art world.
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