If the debut of Bravo’s reality TV show Gallery Girls this fall wasn’t enough indication that art is maybe really finally going mainstream — at least on TV — then try this: E! is working on a scripted drama called Gallerina.
Gallery Girls
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Art Makes You Nicer
CHICAGO — If you are involved in the arts, either as a practitioner or a consumer, or both, you know that there are two competing images of yourself: the vicious backstabber, hungry for success at any cost (see Gallery Girls) and the basically nice person who believes in that old-fashioned idea that art makes you a better person.
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All You Really Need to Know About Gallery Girls
Yes, it’s essentially Mean Girls in a gallery.
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Gallery Girls: Cutting Throats, Getting Paid
The advertisement for the new Bravo TV show Gallery Girls is titled “The Cutthroat World of Gallery Girls.” The two-minute preview promises the approved dose of unapologetic reality TV narcissism. Lucky us.
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Bravo Responds to Gallery Girls Controversy
On April 8, I wrote a story on Bravo’s Gallery Girls, a new reality show in the making, and the name and concept’s similarity to a popular independent webcomic, also called Gallery Girls. In this post, Bravo responds to the possible conflict and I take stock of commenter responses.
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Does Bravo’s New Gallery Girls Reality Show Rip Off an Indie Webcomic?
There have been rumors that Bravo is developing a new “reality” TV show based around the lives of Chelsea’s young, questionably glamorous gallerinas, but with an April 6 announcement came confirmation and a title: the show in development is named “Gallery Girls,” and will “follow the lives of 6 young, 20-something women that work in New York City’s hippest art galleries.” The announcement was met with an immediate negative reaction — “Gallery Girls” happens to also be the name of a webcomic, created and copyrighted in October 2008 by Chinatown resident Mary Blakemore, that covers much the same territory as Bravo’s proposed show. Is Bravo’s show a rip off of Blakemore’s comic? Or could this be a case of unintentional copyright infringement?
