The Art Newspaper

A dose of art reality for SJP

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Published online 9 Jul 09

Sex and the City star Sarah Jessica Parker candidly admits she lacks art world experience so what is the inspiration behind the TV star’s new artist reality show, provisionally entitled The Untitled Art Project? It’s painter Patricia Broderick, her late mother-in-law who, says Parker, began enjoying recognition and success only after her death in 2003. “Her experience was meaningful in my thinking about artists who work in obscurity,” she told The Art Newspaper. Ms Broderick, mother of actor Matthew Broderick, studied with painters Rufino Tamayo and Vaclav Vytlacil, and lived with US Pop artist John Wesley for almost a decade before her death. Since 2006 her work has been represented by Tibor de Nagy Gallery in New York. This month Ms Parker’s production company, Pretty Matches, will cast 13 undiscovered artists set to compete for a gallery exhibition, a cash prize and a nationwide US museum tour. Ms Parker revealed that she will not host the series, but adds that a panel of art experts including collectors, curators, artists and dealers is currently being finalised. The show is scheduled to air on Bravo in autumn 2010.

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