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judged on their portrait assignment. successful Chow proclaims, one that shows a viewer the inner essence of your subject, and not just their The artists collectively gulp. Idid too. Fifty years of marvelous, disruptive paintings and photographs by Alex Katz, Chuck Close, Dan McCleary, Gerhard Richter, Cindy Sherman, John Sonsini, Rineke Dijkstra and countless other first-rate artists, internationally known and not, and still trotting out the wheezing about required significance being bound up with the revelation of the inner essence? Really? The 17th century lives on. Equally disturbing: Not a single artist challenges this antique idea.

These eager puppies are instead ready to hunker down and try their best to satisfy the demand of their TV patron, visions of Brooklyn dancing in their heads. Avirtual knockoff of with silk- screens replacing sewing machines and paintbrushes subbing for scissors and straight pins, of shares that production ElvesInc. But it suffers from comparison to the shmatte glory days a few seasons back, when garnered its own cult- like art-world following. One reason worked so well is that it juxtaposed yearning for worldly acknowledgment with magnificent frivolousness, which is central to its appeal. A viewer could watch TV, which has honed frivolousness to its own shiny art form, secure in the knowledge that none of it much mattered, except to the scheming players.

Not so with of which 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 meatloaf. Chow, a model and sometimes actress, plays model and sometimeactress Heidi Klum, the combination host and judge. The role of Tim Gunn, kindly father figure and helpful mentor to contestants, is handled by the avuncular Simon de Pury, the Swiss-born auction- house executive. New York magazine art critic Jerry Saltzplays tough-love fashion magazine editor Nina Garcia.

(You can practically hear the aspiring artists thinking to themselves: Bore. Uptown Manhattan gallerist Jeanne Greenberg Rohatynand downtown Manhattan gallerist Bill Powersround out the jury, taking turns evoking opinionated if slightly daffy designer Michael Kors, who knows what he likes when he sees it but explain quite why. Guestjurors are promised as the season proceeds. The regulars, however, who guide and judge what matters in art as it comes piping hot from the workroom studio, mostly occupy business end. of is based in New York, epicenter of the contemporary art market, and hews close to the trading-house floor.

Episode 1is the necessary getting-to-know-you show, both for the audience and the cast. The contestants range in age from 23 to 62, but most are in their 20s and 30s. As personalities, they embody familiar, consumable profiles. the slacker, the pretty girl, the geek, the shrew, the neurotic, the late-bloomer, the amateur, the kook, the hipster, etc. also alum Parker, the bona fide TV and not-quite movie star, who pops in to say hello.

Given the scathing critical reception toher new film, and the City perhaps Parker would have done better to stay behind the scenes of this vacant television piddle. Half the contestants are painters, a high percentage given diversity of media. As far as one can figure from brief TV clips, they all appear to be reasonable artistic choices. But if you tell within the first half- hour who will be going home when the shambling 44 minutes dawdle to an end, you are definitely new to art. Andnew to reality-contest TV.

Lack of talent or questionable skill is not the only determinant of who stays and who goes. ashow to put on, so the dramatic narrative among contestants matters. When, during judging, one exasperated artist finally talks back in frustrated response to a particularly lame set of opinions hurled the way, you ponder two things: Maybe 17th century aesthetics will fade before the over; andthis rock sock artist will be around for upcoming episodes. law: Bore. The Conflict is the not-so-inner essence of reality TV.

My astute colleague Ann Powers noted of this that those own songwriting skills and pop musicianship were suppressed in favor of covering established hitsthatthe audience already knows. Ditto of which suffers from a similar creative muffling. Rather than making art, the cast is charged with dramatizing the act of making art. Before the series ends, one or more of the contestants might recognize that. what the academic critics call quality.) Perhaps figure out how to meet the assigned challenges while also making art that lacerates the death grip on convention.

That would be something, although not holding my breath. In fact, I probably know whether it happens. My DVR is broken, out of leftover meatloaf and is on opposite. christopher.knight Barbara Nitke Bravo PORTRAITS OF THE ARTISTS: In the first episode, contestants are put in pairs and create portraits of their partners. Here, Trong examines a work.

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UNI4.56 Most Wanted: America Fights Back FOX4.56 47 Rules of Engagement (Wed.) CBS4.52 48 49 How I Met Your Mother (Wed.) CBS4.40 50 Rules of Engagement CBS4.37 --------------------------------------51 Got Talent 8 p.m.) NBC4.36 Soy tu 53 Cops (8:30 p.m.)FOX4.35 54 Hasta Que El Dinero Nos Separe (Mon.) UNI4.33 Soy tu (Wed.) UNI4.33 --------------------------------------56 Soy tu 57 American DadFOX4.21 58 Jimmy Kimmel Live (Thu.) ABC4.18 59 NBA Countdown (Sun.) ABC4.14 60 2010 Scripps National Spelling Bee ABC4.00 --------------------------------------61 MediumCBS3.99 62 How I Met Your Mother (Thu.) CBS3.91 63 Hasta Que El Dinero Nos Separe (Fri.) UNI3.84 64 Friday Night LightsNBC3.83 65 CopsFOX3.82 --------------------------------------66 The SimpsonsFOX3.78 67 The Cleveland ShowFOX3.62 Cougar TownABC3.62 69 Soy tu 70 Dateline (Sun.) NBC3.54 --------------------------------------71 Losing It With Jillian (Wed.) NBC3.45 72 Jimmy Kimmel Live (Sun.) ABC3.31 73 Lie To MeFOX3.28 74 Castle (Sat.) ABC3.24 75 Mi Pecado --------------------------------------76 CommunityNBC2.99 77 Three Rivers CBS2.97 The Good Guys FOX2.97 79 The Office (10 p.m.) NBC2.89 80 30 RockNBC2.83 --------------------------------------81 The OfficeNBC2.78 Network averages Here is the number of viewers (in millions) that each network averaged per hour of prime time, for last week and for the season. Network Last week Season to date ABC7.158.57 CBS6.611.59 NBC5.728.11 FOX5.129.84 UNI3.153.48 Here are the rankings for national prime-time network television last week (May 31-June 6) as compiled by the Nielsen Co.

They are based on the average number of people who watched a program from start to finish. Nielsen estimates there are 286 million potential viewers in the U.S. ages 2 and older. Viewership is listed in millions. With the first two games of the NBA Finals drawing their largest audiences since 2004, ABC was the most- watched network during the first full week of summer season.

Game 2 of the series between the Los Angeles Lakers and Boston Celtics Sunday was the most-watched program between May 31 and Sunday, averaging 15.72 million viewers, according to figures released Tuesday by the Nielsen Co. opening game of the series was second for the week, averaging 14.09 million viewers. ABC averaged 7.15 million viewers for its prime-time programming for the week. Its most-watched program outside the NBA Finals was the season premiere of which was 14th overall, averaging 8.37 million viewers. CBS finished second, averaging 6.60 million viewers, thanks mainly to having the five most-watched scripted programs, topped by a rerun of fourth overall, averaging 10.83 million viewers.

With the first two episodes of Got finishing third and sixth, NBC was third for the week, averaging 5.72 million viewers. NBC also got boosts from its coverage of two games of Stanley Cup finals. The Chicago 2-1victory over the Philadelphia Flyers in Game 2 on May 31was 27th for the week, averaging 5.89 million viewers, the most for a Game 2 in U.S. television history. 7-4 victory in Game 5 onSunday, opposite Game 2 of the NBA Finals, was 29th, averaging 5.85 million viewers.

three telecasts of Stanley Cup finals games averaged 5.39 million viewers. PRIME-TIME TV RANKINGS ABC wins with NBA audiences city news service.