[audio src="https://traffic.libsyn.com/badatsports/Bad_at_Sports_Episode_881_Sean_Nash.mp3"] download This week on Bad at Sports Duncan MacKenzie and Amy Kligman check in with Sean Nash! Thanks to the glory of the Charlotte Street Foundation. Sean Nash is a visual artist whose work often intersects with fermentation, social practice, and ecological themes. His projects integrate fermented foods into sculptures and exhibitions, exploring the cultural and biological aspects of fermentation. Nash has exhibited at various venues including the Kniznick Gallery at Brandeis, Plug Projects in Kansas City, and Black Ball Projects in Brooklyn.

[audio src="https://traffic.libsyn.com/badatsports/Bad_at_Sports_Episode_880_Sam_Hann_and_Cezar_Lopez.mp3"] download In this episode our intrepid art adventure enthusist, Duncan MacKenzie, is joined by KC rockstar ED, Amy Kligman. Together they catch up with two of the next generation of Kansas City's art world grinders charting the next phase of KC contemporary art. Sam Hann and Cesar E. Lopez Mejia.

[audio src="https://traffic.libsyn.com/badatsports/Bad_at_Sports_879_Ruben_Castillo.mp3"] download In this episode of the Bad at Sports Podcast, we sit down with Ruben Castillo, and explore his two person exhibition with Amy Cousins. Few broadcast from the heart of Kansas City thanks to the glory of the Charlotte Street Foundation.

[audio src="https://traffic.libsyn.com/badatsports/Bad_at_Sports_Episode_878_Caleb_Taylor.mp3"] download In this episode of the Bad at Sports Podcast, we sit down with Caleb Taylor, a dynamic artist and influential figure in Kansas City's vibrant art scene. Join us as we delve into Caleb's creative journey, his work, Plug, curating, and his deep roots and connections with the local Kansas City art scene.

[audio src="https://traffic.libsyn.com/badatsports/Bad_at_Sports_Episode_876_Colin_Matthes.mp3"] download On this episode of Bad at Sports, Wisconsin artist Colin Matthes gets descriptive about his ongoing series of discursive drawings and sculptures. His unconscientious images come from a daily drawing routine made around the home with his wife and two children, portraying confabulated narratives from books and TV intertwined with imagined and lived moments.

[audio src="https://traffic.libsyn.com/badatsports/Bad_at_Sports_Episode_875_Daniel_Tucker_Returns_from_Korea.mp3"] download In this episode of Bad at Sports, Daniel Tucker travels to Seoul, South Korea, to attend the Arts in Society conference 2024, where he sits down with two influential figures in the global arts community.

[audio src="https://traffic.libsyn.com/badatsports/Bad_at_Sports__Episode_874_Jen_delos_Reyes.mp3"] download Welcome to another episode of Bad at Sports. In this episode, Jesse and Duncan sit down with Jen de los Reyes, an artist, organizer, and activist known for her transformative projects that bridge art and community engagement.

[audio src="https://traffic.libsyn.com/badatsports/Bad_at_Sports_Episode_873_Baum_Fischer_Witte.mp3"] download In this captivating episode of Bad at Sports Podcast, we bring you a special recording of a panel discussion held at the Goldfinch Gallery. The event, which saw an enthusiastic turnout with every painter in Chicago turning out for this standing room only discussion, delves into the intricate world of painting. "Team Contemporary Painting" panelists, Leslie Baum and Andreas Fischer, share their insights on a range of topics, including painting techniques, materials, subjects, and the generation of content. They also explore the dynamics of collaboration among painters, shedding light on how artists work together and maintain their individuality in the art world.

[audio src="https://traffic.libsyn.com/badatsports/Bad_at_Sports_Episode_872_Haines_Riley.mp3"] download Join the Bad at Sports team as they delve into the vibrant world of contemporary art in their latest episode featuring two influential figures from the gallery scene: Haines Riley of Good Weather Gallery and Kia Matsumiya of his eponymous gallery. In this engaging conversation, Haines Riley shares insights into the vision and mission behind Good Weather Gallery, a dynamic space known for its cutting-edge exhibitions and support for emerging artists. From discussing the curation process to the challenges and triumphs of running an independent gallery, Riley provides a behind-the-scenes look at the inner workings of the contemporary art world.

[audio src="https://traffic.libsyn.com/badatsports/Bad_at_Sports_episode_871_Christina_Ballantyne.mp3"] download In this episode of Bad at Sports Podcast, we delve into the puffy painting and bulging canvases with Chicago-based artist Christina Ballantyne. Live from the opening day of EXPO Chicago 2024. We are the very heart of fabulous in the center of art world fortune and glory.

[audio src="https://traffic.libsyn.com/badatsports/Bad_at_Sports_Episode_870_Hilmas_Ghost.mp3"] download The artists of Hilma’s Ghost join us from the inside of Secrist Beach Gallery, Chicago’s newly opened and probably most gorgeous gallery, Dannielle Tegeder and Sharmistha Ray, treat us to magic, haunting and an introduction to tarot. Beyond that, they revel in the radical feminist histories of art and witchcraft looking for knowledge beyond the rationally conceived.

[audio src="https://traffic.libsyn.com/badatsports/Bad_at_Sports_Episode_869_Nato_Thompson_Alternative_Art_School.mp3"] download This week Bad at Sports favorite art world wanderer, Nato Thompson. We chat through all of Nato’s current diversions such as independent curating, building the 21st Century Museum and AI’s role in that work, the Alternative Art School and the value proposition of contemporary arts education, and Dreaming in Public.

[audio src="https://traffic.libsyn.com/badatsports/Bad_at_Sports_868_EXPO_Chicago_2024.mp3"] download Kate Sierzputowski for EXPO and the Barely Fair! Holy smokes the Art circus is in town. Time to get on board! WE HAVE ALL THE PREVIEW YOU NEED!

[audio src="https://traffic.libsyn.com/badatsports/Bad_at_Sports_Episode_867_Gary_Cannone.mp3"] download Compound Yellow's featured artist Gary Cannone dominates every part of the compound with his LA from Chicago brand of conceptual art. Fun name drops include Bernini and Maritizo Catalan. Tune in for the rest. bio: Gary Cannone (Guerino Giovanni Cannone) was born in 1964 to Italian immigrants working factory jobs in Chicago. He learned english from American 70s television and was obsessed with Norm Crosby, Carol Burnett, the Three Stooges, Mad Magazine, Wacky Packages, and the Marx Brothers. His grandfather (and namesake) was crushed to death by a pool table the day before Cannone’s eighth birthday in a warehouse accident.

[audio src="https://traffic.libsyn.com/badatsports/Bad_at_Sports_Episode_866_Sharon_Louden_and_Vinson_Valega.mp3"] download Live for WY! The return of art world mega force Sharon Louden and music empresario Vinson Valega! We talk Sustaining your Creative Life and the Institute for it! Always working to better your artistic life! Get your Art World hustle on.

[audio src="https://traffic.libsyn.com/badatsports/Bad_at_Sports_Episode_865_Dorothy_Dubrule.mp3"] download This week Dorothy Dubrule catches up with Dana Bassett and Duncan, about “Being Work” her new book of essays on the performer’s experience performing art. Essays written by effie bowen, Casey Brown, Dorothy Dubrule, Jessica Emmanuel, Paul Hamilton, Allie Hankins, Kestrel Farin Leah, and Mireya Lucio. Brilliant Illustrations by Eileen Wolf Echikson.

[audio src="https://traffic.libsyn.com/badatsports/Bad_at_Sports_Episode_864_Paddy_Johnson_VVrks.mp3"] download Paddy Johnson, the Paddy Johnson! The Blogo-sphere legend behind Art F City joins us to talk about how to make the art world better for Artists! Her new-er venture "Netvverk" and the magic that is artists helping artists. Maybe we dish a little on the current state of arts journalism, art ed and which museum sucks at wall labels.

[audio src="https://traffic.libsyn.com/badatsports/Bad_at_Sports_Episode_863_Cala_Coats.mp3"] download You are not what you own. Unless what we mean is art and we are guests in your house... Then you are exactly what you own. Dr. Cala Coat's joins us for a trip into learning and her new book "New Materialisms and Embodied Encounters in Education: Curiosity's Vital Potential." Part art education, part 18th century journey into embodied experience, part treatise on the nature of creative... This conversation is one more step in an exploration...

[audio src="https://traffic.libsyn.com/badatsports/Bad_at_Sports_Episode_862_Norman_Teague.mp3"] download Chicago. Designer. Artist. And. Jazz fan. Norman Teague, joins us to touch on craft, music, Mies van der Rohr, bringing one’s cousins along. Come along us as we dance through a racialized modern, Martian Puryear, craft and art, and the affect of music. All while we investigate “A LOVE SUPREME” at the Elmhurst Art Museum.

[audio src="https://traffic.libsyn.com/badatsports/Andrew_Mcilvaine.mp3"] download This week Duncan continues the collaboration with Charlotte Street in Kansas City And talks displacement and replacement with Andrew Mcilvaine.

[audio src="https://traffic.libsyn.com/badatsports/Juan_Angel_Chavez.mp3"] download Oh me oh my skate or die! This week Bad at Sports returns to Shred the Shed to find the crossover of skating and sculpture with Juan Angel Chavez.

[audio src="https://traffic.libsyn.com/badatsports/slinko.mp3"] download What is the role of humor in a time of war? Slinko talks about the philosophy of tragedy and comedy in our third episode from the Bemis Center.

[audio src="https://traffic.libsyn.com/badatsports/Hertzler.mp3"] download The Bemis Center provides! This episode gets transhuman with filmmaker Marnie Ellen Hertzler through a path of discovery with robot jam bands, sinking islands, and debates on the value of sleep versus food.

[audio src="https://traffic.libsyn.com/badatsports/Bad_at_Sports_episode_857_lee_hunter.mp3"] download Straight out of Omaha - In the first of several conversations with residents of the Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, we get cosmogonal with multi-disciplinary artist Lee Hunter. Like Hunter's expansive Cosmogenesis project we cover almost all of the things contained within this universe, and it gets fervent y'all.

[audio src="https://traffic.libsyn.com/badatsports/Bad_at_Sports_856_Pasakorn_Intoo-Marn_and_Sorayut_Aiemueayut.mp3"] download This dialogue covers artist-led research projects taking place over the last decade of political transformation in Thailand with Pasakorn Intoo-Marn (Lecturer in Theatre and Performance Practice at the Faculty of Fine and Applied Arts, Thammasat University) and Sorayut Aiemueayut (Lecturer in Visual Culture at the Dept. of Media, Arts & Design at Chiang Mai University). The interview was conducted at the 2023 Arts in Society conference in Krakow Poland.

[audio src="https://traffic.libsyn.com/badatsports/Bad_at_Sports_855_Jody_Wood.mp3"] download In this interview social practice artist Jody Wood, based in Houston TX, reflects on the stages of her project Social Pharmacy as they took place in New Jersey, Texas and Sweden. The interview was conducted by Daniel Tucker at the 2023 Arts in Society conference in Krakow Poland.

[audio src="https://traffic.libsyn.com/badatsports/Bad_at_Sports_Episode_854_Chicago_Abortion_Fund_and_the_Heyl_Brothers.mp3"] download On this week's harrowing tale of Art, Bad at Sports visits the Salt Shed for Shred the Shed, an event celebrating the latest release of Portable Gray, a biannual journal published by The University of Chicago Press.

[audio src="https://traffic.libsyn.com/badatsports/Bad_at_Sports_Episode_853_Devin_Mays.mp3"] download This week we are joined by great Chicago Artist Devin T. Mays. We talk dressing Wisconsin, Poetry, Humor, how “Everything is Everything”, and how dislocation is a meaningful strategy. We do it all live from the Salt Shed in Chicago for the “Shred at the Shed” with the Chicago Abortion Fund, Portable Gray Magazine, Quimby’s and more… Also this episode feature the first appearance of “Other Ryan.”

[audio src="https://traffic.libsyn.com/badatsports/Bad_at_Sports_Episode_852_Regina_Agu_Farah_Salem_very_serious.mp3"] download This week we bring several things never meant to meet, together. EXPO Chicago and the artist featured in Hyde Park Art Center’s booth: Farah Salem and Regina Agu. We explore personal and historic cultural lineages, trauma response, and alternative cultural teachings as they bridge the space between research and practice. Then we jump over to our dear friends at A Very Serious Gallery and Allan Weinberger and we dance through graffiti, “high art”, kissing booths and a plea for love. All in all a single amazing day from the heartland’s greatest art fair. And don't think we didn't notice that Frieze bought it. We are just as curious as you are.

[audio src="https://traffic.libsyn.com/badatsports/Bad_at_Sports_Episode_851_Kevin_Demerythebest.mp3"] download Welcome back to a monster week at Bad at Sports. (We took an unscheduled vacation in August [cringe emoji]. This week we drop three shows the first of which is episode 851 from Kansas City with Kevin Demery. A great conversation about art, life, and the intersection of race and justice. This conversation is amongst several you will hear in the next few weeks are brought to you through the support of Charlotte Street Foundation in Kansas City, where they are doing a remarkable job of bedrock-ing the Kansas City art world and its artists. You should also know that you can expect us back on the radio on Wednesday with an episode from Expo Chicago. Excitingly, EXPO just sold to Freize and what that portends for our local International Art Fair, we will do our best to find out.

[audio src="https://traffic.libsyn.com/badatsports/Bad_at_Sports_Episode_850_Barber_and_Ogbara.mp3"] download Live from EXPO Chicago! Kalamazoo Institute of Art Chief Curator, Rahema C Barber and artist, writer, and curator Lola Ayisha Ogbara! We chat all things Michigan and just how Kalamazoo came to be a hot bed of Michigan art and thought. Then we check in with Chicago Local Lola Ayisha Ogbara talks about her work all over EXPO, Billboards, the South Side Community Art Center, St. Louis and Chicago, and the African Diaspora.

[audio src="https://traffic.libsyn.com/badatsports/Bad_at_Sports_Episode_849_Robert_Raphael.mp3"] download This week we present the last of the “lost hard drive episodes” and find the thoughtfully strength of Robert Raphael. Interviewed at NADA art fair in New York City by the brilliant Amanda Browder and the amazing Caroline Burghardt.

[audio src="https://traffic.libsyn.com/badatsports/Bad_at_Sports_Episode_848_Robin_Kang.mp3"] download This week we return to the lost hard drive and find the brilliance of Robin Kang. Interviewed at NADA art fair in New York City by Amanda Browder and Caroline Burghardt. These three brilliant humans chew their way through the history of craft and what it taught us about technology, and how that may pull us back to a human-ness from our tech, and playfully bounce around the New York art world and it's fairs. All from inside a Claire Ashley sculpture. Editing support provided by the always perfect, Martin Ortiz de Taranco.

[audio src="https://traffic.libsyn.com/badatsports/Bad_at_Sports_Episode_847_Barely_Fair_Minor_Matters_2.mp3"] download Today on Bad at Sports we’re presenting two panel discussions held this April as part of Minor Matters, the programming arm of Barely Fair, a 1/12th scale art fair produced by Julius Caesar at Color Club! First up, MINOR EXPORTS: Exhibition Programs Across Cities with Michelle Grabner (The Suburban, Milwaukee, Umbria), Tarik Kentouche (Scherben, Berlin), Aron Gent (DOCUMENT, Chicago, Lisbon), moderated by Josh Dihle (BARELY FAIR, Julius Caesar). After the break, SCALING UP: Emerging Artists Presented in Large-Scale Spaces with Torey Gaines (Anthony Gallery), Mickey Pomfrey (MICKEY) and Abby Pucker (GERTIE, Art in Common), moderated by Roland Miller (BARELY FAIR, Julius Caesar).

[audio src="https://traffic.libsyn.com/badatsports/Bad_at_Sports_Episode_846_Barely_Fair_Minor_Matters_1.mp3"] download This week on Bad at Sports we’re presenting more panel discussions from Minor Matters, the programming arm of Barely Fair, a 1/12th scale art fair produced by Julius Caesar at Color Club this April! First up, CURATORIAL CONFINES: Scaled Selections Within and Outside Institutions moderated by Scott Campbell (Independent Curators International) with panelists Nolan Jimbo (Marjorie Susman Curatorial Fellow at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago), Adia Sykes (Independent Curator) and Kate Sierzputowski.

[audio src="https://traffic.libsyn.com/badatsports/Bad_at_Sports_Episode_845_Phillip_Maisel.mp3"] download This episode from the now found lost hard drive of Bad at Sports. SF based not all the time photographer and conceptual artist Phillip Maisel! From a NADA NYC of the past we share this great chat about aesthetics, photography, formalism, and the construction of an image with Amanda Browder and Duncan MacKenzie, live from inside a Claire Ashley! Big thanks to Martin for editing support.

[audio src="https://traffic.libsyn.com/badatsports/Bad_at_Sports_Episode_844_Alex_Gingrow.mp3"] download This episode from the now found hard drive of Bad at Sports. Alex Gingrow! From a NADA NYC of the past we share this great chat about aesthetics, time, angst, and text art hosted but Caroline Burghardt and Duncan MacKenzie, live from inside a Claire Ashley! Big thanks to Martin for editing support.

[audio src="https://traffic.libsyn.com/badatsports/Bad_at_Sports_Episode_843_Muntges_Miller_Raskey.mp3"] download Today on Bad at Sports, live from inside EXPO Chicago, we try to get to the bottom of what the Monira Foundation is up to and what exactly it has to do with MANA Contemporary? So, we catch up with Anne Muntges, Director of Residencies and Grants Development. Then we are joined by the CEO of Apollo, Michael Miller and Chicago artist Sarah Raskey, and we look into the future of digital art delivery and what it would mean to have access to the world's greatest collections from your home. Efficiency

[audio src="https://traffic.libsyn.com/badatsports/Bad_at_Sports_Episode_842_ICI_and_John_Knuth.mp3"] download This week we check in with independent Curators International through Scott Vincent Campbell and Becky Nahom, and they break down the exciting curatorial connection event hosted through EXPO Chicago for the last five nine years. The conversation touches on the value of curators having an informal, yet art infused context in which to connect. All participants fail to recognize that the proper noun for a group of curators is a “hubris.” As in, “a hubris of curators approached the young artist.” This chat is a followed by LA based but Chicago drenched brilliant image maker John Knuth and we get down, full on EXPO style but with flies, as we tailgate our own booth and try to change the world one T-shirt at a time. EXPO Chicago in full effect.

[audio src="https://traffic.libsyn.com/badatsports/Bad_at_Sports_Episode_841_Chole_Wise_and_Kevin_Arrow.mp3"] download This episode we return to the land of the lost episodes of Bad at Sports. As your friendly neighborhood art world podcasters return to action after a bit of a post EXPO meltdown, we are back in action. And in glorious preparation for NADA NYC we present two fantastic interviews we did in conjunction with NADA in Miami. Art world megaphone jaw dropper, Chloe Wise, breaks down art fashion and how we consume both and the ideas that trail in their wake. Kevin Arrow gets into what is lost as we turn away from Obsolete Media and the joy we can find in rediscovery.

[audio src="https://traffic.libsyn.com/badatsports/Bad_at_Sports_Episode_840_Jennifer_Reeder.mp3"] download Jennifer Reeder is back! It's been a decade since our last conversation with the legendary Chicago filmmaker, artist and educator and she has been busy! Her newest feature, Perpetrator, features (the!) Alicia Silverstone and recently premiered at the Berlinale on its way back stateside. Together with Jesse and Brian, Jennifer gets into genre, the short as form and shape, her own personal journey through different mediums and more in a rolicking and fascinating conversation.

[audio src="ttps://traffic.libsyn.com/badatsports/Bad_at_Sports_Episode_839_Molly_Zuckerman_Hartung.mp3"] download This week Amanda and Duncan return to the magic of the passed of Bad at Sports with a brilliant interview with Molly Zuckerman-Hartung! Zuckerman-Hartung kicked off this years set of Dialogoues at EXPO Chicago! And we return to a blissfully naive pre-pandemic artworld while physically celebrating the return to form of EXPO 2023! Editing support by Martin and we did this interview inside a Claire Ashley sculpture in NYC!

[audio src="https://traffic.libsyn.com/badatsports/Bad_at_Sports_Episode_838_Sumesh_Sharma.mp3"] download height="378" /> Amanda Browder and Duncan have a word with Mumbai based curator Sumesh Sharma! We chat about all things internationally challenging and the context for both international and American art. We cover why NADA is such an important international fair! All from inside a Claire Ashley in NYC. Editing support by Martin!

[audio src="https://traffic.libsyn.com/badatsports/Bad_at_Sports_Episode_837_Cham_and_Chitty.mp3"] download Once again Bad at Sports brings back a little audio that we recorded several years ago at NADA Miami which for no good reason never made it to air. We blame our day jobs but these would not have seen the light without the editing support of Martin Ortiz de Taranco! This week we run into Chambliss Giobbi and circle around model building, portraits, the relationship between an image and its materials. Then we are treated to the driest wit in Chicago by Alex Chitty thanks to Patron Gallery! Thanks to NADA! Thanks to Claire Ashley who provided the work for our booth. And in a rare twist Dana Bassett and Tom Sanford, in the same show!

[audio src="https://traffic.libsyn.com/badatsports/Bad_at_Sports_Episode_836_BMore.mp3"] download BmoreArt’s Editor-in-Chief Cara Ober joins Amanda Browder and Duncan MacKenzie in NYC at NADA NYC of yore. We express the pre-pandemic naive enthusiasm that will one day rule the world. We mine the depths of art publishing, art criticism, middle school sports, why Baltimore is a bad ass town, and why loving magazines will never be wrong!

[audio src="https://traffic.libsyn.com/badatsports/Bad_at_Sports_Episode_835_Carrie_Gundersdorf_Chloe_Bass.mp3"] download This episode we check in from New York City with two of New York's bright lights, Carrie Gundersdorf (Teaching this summer at fan favorite summer residency, Ox-Bow) and Chloë Bass! We checked in several years ago from a boozy and brilliant NADA NYC! We talk painting and drawing, the price of eggs insurance type, compare New York and Chicago, light beyond the light and the low fi, while getting intimate and bureaucratic with our practices. And we all become Artworldees!

[audio src="https://traffic.libsyn.com/badatsports/Bad_at_Sports_Episode_834_Harold_Mendez.mp3"] download Episode 834, in which we creep back into the annals of our history and pull forth a conversation which had not seen the light before, Harold Mendez. Hero to many. We talk Whitney Biennial, Cuba, Tiffany's, and just exactly how the art world works. Thank You NADA!

[audio src="https://traffic.libsyn.com/badatsports/Bad_at_Sports_Episode_833_Woodgate.mp3"] download A few years ago, we put together so much content in the context of NADA art Fair Miami and New York that we have been sitting on a handful of great stuff (like for years)… And you are going to get to hear it all as we get prepared for Chicago’s EXPO this spring! Kicking it all off this week Dana and Duncan chat with Miami legend, Agustina Woodgate.

[audio src="https://traffic.libsyn.com/badatsports/Bad_at_Sports_Episode_832_David_Sprecher_and_Jeff_Prokash.mp3"] download Language lovers rejoice — the blab at sporkers transmit live to tape from the exhibition Glossolalia, hosted at ACRE (hosted by Drama Club) with our guests David Sprecher and Jeff Prokash. Their collaborative show, which performs a complicated material translation of an excerpt of a Franny Choi poem, is up through the weekend and includes a series of readings this Saturday (2/25/23) amidst and among their sculpture-phonemes. We talk about talking and think about thinking in what Zagat’s is calling “? ?r?li ?re?t ??ks??b???n ... w?r? ?sik?? ænd ?si?? ?f ju hir w?t ?ts ?se??? ?ru ?bi?? sin …” and we’ll agree.

[audio src="https://traffic.libsyn.com/badatsports/Bad_at_Sports_Episode_831_Paul_Gray_and_Gray_GalleryFin.mp3"] download This week Duncan sits down with Paul Gray in front of a live audience at Columbia College Chicago to talk about the history of Gray Gallery, the legacy of Richard Gray, how “the sausage gets made” in the art world, 60 years of supporting artists and what the next 60 years will look like, and Marcel Proust?