To be critical of Bravo’s Work of Art would, of course, be missing the point; a show constructed of the same building materials as America’s Next Top Model and countless other competition based shows that promise to start a career for the contestants is clearly not going to be a worthwhile endeavor.

Besides, if you go visit the Public Figure Facebook page for Nao Bustamante, you can read all sorts of articles on the subject, from the juicy to the insightful. But really, of course, what we have here is great television. Well… great? I don’t know. It is comical at least, to see these poor folks striving to create great “works of art” inspired by the trip through New York in an Audi SUV to an Audi store, and other such drivel. The only person who had anything meaningful to say about art was Nao, whose comments include: “I am not responsible for your experience of my artwork” and “Failure is completely OK.” While the comments may sound to most people as bratty or defensive, based on the avalanche of Internet comments related to them, they are of course such true statements on a really basic level that hearing them uttered in the circus arena of television was probably one of the most profoundly shocking things I’ve experienced lately. And of course, the most wonderful moment of all was at her final judgment, when Andres Serrano remained quiet about everyone else’s work, but defended Nao’s, saying “I think her work is very interesting… it makes me think of homeless people.”

Elsewhere on television, True Blood has managed to fangbang itself out of the horrific pit into which it was descending, and to become interesting again. And sexy. Hopefully Bill and the werewolf that was helping Sookie out (I can’t remember his character’s name) have reason to swap blood and start having erotic hate-sex dreams about each other.