This week Bad at Sports favorite art world wanderer, Nato Thompson. We chat through all of Nato’s current diversions such as independent curationg, 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. https://thealternativeartschool.net/ https://www.dreaminginpublic.com/

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!   https://www.expochicago.com/visit https://www.barelyfair.com/

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...

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. Asia Freeman/Bunnell Arts Center (Homer, AK): https://www.bunnellarts.org/ Andreana Donahue/Arts of Life (Chicago): https://artsoflife.org/about/ Ruby Lerner: www.rubylerner.com (AMAZING WEBSITE/RESOURCE) Ray...

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. Dorothy Dubrule is a choreographer and performer based in Los Angeles. Her choreography is often made in collaboration with people who do not...

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.   https://www.paddyjohnson.com/   https://netvvrk.art/   https://www.vvrkshop.art/   ...

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...   https://search.asu.edu/profile/3365383   ...

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. Image... Install at Elmhurst Art Museum   Elmhurst Art Museum https://elmhurstartmuseum.org/ Norman Teague https://www.normanteaguedesignstudios.com/ John Coltrane...

This week Duncan continues the collaboration with Charlotte Street in Kansas City And talks displacement and replacement with Andrew Mcilvaine.   https://www.andrewmcilvaine.com/ https://charlottestreet.org/

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.   https://juanangelchavez.com/

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.    https://www.bemiscenter.org/   https://www.studioslinko.com/  

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.    https://www.bemiscenter.org/   https://marnieellen.com/  

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.    https://www.bemiscenter.org/ http://www.leehunter.net/  

Pasakorn Intoo-Marn and Sorayut Aiemueayut  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...

Jody Wood 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.    Link: https://www.jodywoodart.com/ https://artsinsociety.com/  

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. In the first segment, Duncan and Ryan get the scoop from Megan Jeyifo from Chicago Abortion Fund on how to throw a righteous abortion party. In part two, Duncan and Ryan are interviewed by brothers Shane Heyl, founder of Shake Junt - a skateboard/apparel company, and Brent Heyl,...

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.”   Devin T. Mays – https://regardsgallery.com/artists/devin-mays/ Chicago Abortion Fund –...

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...

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...

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.   EXPO - Chicago https://www.expochicago.com/ Lola Ayisha Ogbara -...

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. These three great humans play their way through the craft, sculpture, history, and ceramics, from inside a Claire Ashley sculpture. Editing support provided by the always perfect, Martin Ortiz de Taranco. Off the top Duncan reads a PSA from our friends at the...

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...

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...