Searching for one thing to fill the void as soon as season 9 of the truth TV present Love Island UK finishes? Properly, now you’ll be able to watch seven modern artists from throughout america compete for a $100,000 money prize and an opportunity to exhibit their work on the Smithsonian’s Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Gardens in Washington, DC, by way of a novel actuality TV present known as The Exhibit: Discovering the Subsequent Nice Artist. Set to premiere on March 3, The Exhibit is trying past the museum’s partitions to draw huge audiences by driving the present wave of affinity for actuality competitors exhibits.
Throughout six episodes, artists Jamaal Barber, Baseera Khan, Frank Buffalo Hyde, Clare Kambhu, Jillian Mayer, Misha Kahn, and Jennifer Warren will create their very own interpretative fee works impressed by the present works within the Hirschhorn’s everlasting collections. Lead decide and museum director Melissa Chiu will headline the panel with a sequence of rotating visitor judges resembling artists Adam Pendleton and Abigail DeVille, digital strategist JiaJia Fei, critic Kenny Schachter, and several other others.
“Because the nationwide museum of recent and modern artwork, the Hirshhorn is dedicated to discovering new methods to attach folks with the artwork and artists of our time,” Chiu stated in an announcement to Hyperallergic. “Integrating our neighborhood of artists, artwork consultants and museum-goers with the mixed 100 million American households which have entry to MTV and the Smithsonian Channel radically expands our attain.”
At face worth, the trailer signifies that The Exhibit follows the everyday formulation of a actuality competitors: MTV Information’s Dometi Pongo serves because the present’s seasoned host, the episodes will manipulate our adrenaline and feelings by way of dramatic sound results and track decisions, and every of the seven artists will come into the competitors with a particular background and message to share by way of their follow, decided to be America’s Subsequent Prime Artist, so to talk.
The Exhibit was developed in partnership with MTV Studios, Paramount, Smithsonian Channel, and PB&J TV + Docs and can present solely on MTV and the Smithsonian Channel. Contemplating the museum’s mission to make modern artwork “radically accessible to an enormous viewers,” it looks like a missed alternative to not present any modes of streaming the present on-line contemplating how many individuals, particularly college students, don’t actually use cable TV anymore.
One factor that stands out for me is that not like what we see in Tyra Banks’s cutthroat competitors scape, the judging panel for The Exhibit gained’t be choosing off the artists from the pool one-by-one with psychologically damaging criticisms (taking a look at you, Janice Dickinson). The group of seven artists will stay on the present for all six creation rounds and high-profile visitor critiques. We will solely hope that the non-elimination strategy is best thought out this time round in comparison with the way it panned out in Jeffrey Deitch’s 2006 actuality TV try Artstar, which prioritized the artist over the artwork.
The Exhibit will premiere on MTV at 9pm EST on Friday, March 3, and can re-air on the Smithsonian Channel on the similar time on March 7.