NEW YORK TIMES: Posted by Emma Allen.I recently attended a wedding where, over lobster rolls, talk turned to reality TV. A young assistant from a prominent gallery, relegated to the kids’ table with me, revealed that she had been approached last August by a casting producer from Magical Elves, Inc., about being on Bravo’s latest reality program, “Gallery Girls.” By the time the cake was cut, she had promised to forward me the e-mail exchange. “We are seeking a gifted and vivacious trailblazer with a tell-it-like-it-is attitude,” the producer had written. “This gallery girl will inspire others with her wit and charm, but she should also be sly-as-a-fox when it comes to the politics of New York City’s art gallery world.” My table mate had opted out.“Gallery Girls” is a new Bravo reality television series that is bad in all of the ways that reality television is usually bad. The first episode presents the petty brawling of young women in high heels as gladiatorial blood sport. It promotes a fantastically regressive vision of the social and sexual dealings of twenty-somethings. There is practically no mention of art. Read Source here