The Medicine Show: Lizzy Wetzel- Video of the Opening Night Performance

Alamo Rec Center Kids at The Medicine Show

This group of kids came the gallery and we discussed Lizzy Wetzel’s art. They were super fun. They said the bone on the ground was a dinosaur bone in the desert. A couple of them were scared in the Dark Dome. How old were you when you first saw blacklights? They were happily amazed that their headbands and clothes glowed. Does UT still have laser bowling?

Art Making at the Medicine Show

You wanna be on top?

Repost: from animalnewyork.com

Bravo Casting For Sarah Jessica Parker’s Art Reality Show

Have you ever wondered how to go from being a “struggling, emerging or even semi-established artist to selling a complete show for $198 million?” Bravo says they might be able to help you with their new artist-based reality competition to win a “gallery show, a cash prize and a sponsored national tour,” whatever that means.

Created by Sarah Jessica Parker’s Pretty Matches Productions with Magical Elves, the producers of “Project Runway” and “Top Chef,” The Untitled Art Project is looking for 13 “contemporary artists” who “believe in their art and want the world to know.” Casting begins next month in Los Angeles, Miami, Chicago, and New York at White Columns on July 18th and 19th. But first you have to fill out the 23-page application and contract which asks among other things:

Have a girlfriend?

Have a boyfriend?

Do you have any rules you live by?

What are your feelings about the relationship between the commercial and art worlds? For instance, what if a branded corporation wanted to use your art in their advertising; discuss your perspective.

Describe your most embarrassing moment… (And/or describe what you wish were your most embarrassing moment.)

What makes you nervous?

Were you ever the subject of any disciplinary proceedings or actions in the military?

Have you ever been convicted of a felony or misdemeanor?

Have you ever had a temporary restraining order issued against you or has anyone ever attempted to obtain a temporary restraining order against you?

Have you ever been convicted of any crime of reckless or drunk driving?

Have you ever done or been involved in anything that would cause the Program producer and/or the cable network and affiliates that may exhibit the Program any embarrassment or monetary loss if you are chosen to participate in the Program?

Have you ever created a website or posted any materials on any website (e.g., MySpace, Facebook, etc.)?

All these questions are crucial for determining whether artist applicants have the skills and personal drama to make the show commercially viable. Don’t forget the part where you sign over all rights to the artwork in your application either.

by Will Sherman on June 30, 2009

More info from Art Fag City
or
www.BravoTV.com.

On a lighter note…

Featherproof Books is a Chicago based indie publishing company. They offer mini-books you can download for free! Folding instructions are included. Author & ex-Austinite Margaret Chapman wrote: Dear Michael. As an eight year old she wrote a letter to Michael Jackson. I wrote letters to celebrities all the time when I was little–but not like this. Add: make a book and read it to your to-do list today!

I feel devastated in the weirdest way:

“I grieve for him; but I also grieve for the culture that created and destroyed him. That culture is ours’ and it is a lethal and brutal one..”

In light of the passing of Michael Jackson I wanted to pay due respect. I found Andrew Sullivan says it better than I could in his article in the daily dish.

He’s been the soundtrack of my life… Chuck D.
theTakeaway.org

Shaman on the one

Lizzy Wetzel Performing at The Medicine Show opening

Didn’t get to go inside during the opening?

Visit WTW and we’ll put you in the drum dome.

Be transformed!