‘Art Talent Show’ Review: A Witty, Wiseman-esque Documentary About Art School Staff and Their Aspiring Students

“Self-presentation, right?” says one teacher, riffling unimpressed through the box portfolio of an applicant for next term at art school. “It’s extreme self-presentation and absolutely nothing else,” shrugs another, before noticing the painted, penis-shaped vibrator that’s also part of the submission and observing drily, “The main thing is that it is covered in silver spray.” Welcome to 2020’s entrance exam week at Prague Academy and to Tomáš Bojar and Adéla Komrzý’s irreverent but oddly optimistic “Art Talent Show,” a documentary less about art or talent than about the Sisyphean task of assessing one and nurturing the other. Accordingly, we don’t… Read Full Article