Tasked with making “art inspired by nature,” the remaining five contestants on Work of Art: The Next Great Artist were shuttled out to a Connecticut woodland, there to get in touch with their inner Rousseaus, their lurking Walton Fords. It was a double-elimination night, so the stakes — and the gravel, and the sea shells — were high.

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This week’s Work of Art: The Next Great Artist began rather frighteningly. The show’s mentor/Swiss popinjay, Simon de Pury, told the contestants that they were going down to SoHo and was greeted with blank stares. “I didn’t know where we were going,” Miles confided to us, which means that unless he’s a victim of bad editing, he had no idea that the area is full of art galleries, and, as Simon explained, as though to a group of children, artists such as “Basquiat and Warhol” worked in that vicinity.

Speaking of children, they inspired the challenge: Taking READ FULL STORY »