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Brian and Dana interview representatives, Vincent Uribe and Lauren Leving, from The Arts of Life on the occasion of the Circle Contemporary exhibition titled Community in Color, featuring artists from their studio and selections by curator, Leving. Our hosts learn about The Arts of Life studio program and the 60 artists they work with between their Chicago and Glenview locations. More info at  htt...

Things get witchy this week as Brian and Ryan weave a conversation on spell casting, rock n' roll, and badminton with fibers artist Karolina Gnatowski.   Fresh off a Skowheagan residency, Gnatowski is burning a four ended candle with looming exhibitions at DePaul University, Free Range, Terrain, and the here and now, "Changeling" at Julius Caesar. Our conversational arc ties together the topics of...

Public Matter changing the world. https://publicmattersgroup.com/ Public Matters connects people to their neighborhoods; cultivates shared ownership of place; builds capacity to shape communities.  

  Alireza Khatami comes into the studio to talk his first feature film  Oblivion Verses ( https://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=X1e6OaNQ-2k ) which   pre miered at the Venice Biennial where it took a golden lion for screenwriting. He chats with  Brian  and Dana on filming beyond plot, making a movie in a language you don't speak, and everything you need to know about cemeteries.   

How should we teach art after Social Practice and the Post-Studio? Michelle Illuminato (Portland State,) Brett Hunter (Alfred,) and Carol Padberg (Hartford) help us work through the problem. Recorded at Open Engagement 2017  

Jeffly Gabriela Molina joins Dana and Ryan in the studio to discuss her paintings and upcoming group exhibition at LVL3. Jeffly introduces us to the intimacy of her image making and even graces us with an original short poem. Ryan terms up our volume with an ode to Structuralism and more in this episode of Bad at Sports Center!

This week on Bad at Sports Center - New City Publisher Brian Hieggelke ! Talking movie making and the extensions of publishing! Future forward thinking and with a little help from our friends at Today at Apple .

Oak Park Brawl- Rauschenberg vs. Johns. Who would win in a fight? What if they were underwater? What if they were in the dark? What if they were on a white canvas with a white ground? Who know? Matthew Girson knows. We use a division between these two legendary painters to inform and interrogate the practice of Local Hero Matthew Girson! Woot! I think he was grateful when we left. http://matthewgi...

Misael Soto joins Bad at Sports Center to discuss "Provisional Obstruction," a public sculptural work in collaboration with Ayesha Singh outside of ACRE Projects. We delve into Soto's history of creating monumentally mundane sculpture and their Chicago origin story. DJ Younger Brother puts us into context as we discuss performance, gentrification, and giant beach towels all in this weeks episode.

This week Duncan and Dana interview former Chicagoan David Hartt on the occasion of the opening of his latest commission,  in the forest , on location at The Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts. David and Duncan talk Canada stuff, and Hartt walks our hosts through his investigation into architect Moshe Safdie's unfinished 1968 Habitat project in Puerto Rico. The multi-part inst...

This week, Bad @ Sportscenter darling Caroline Picard, returns to dish on the upcoming exhibit 'Coming of Age,' at Sector 2337. Picard shares the mics with Aki Inomata, Essi Kausalainen, and Rebecca Beachy, three brilliant artists from the all-star exhibition line-up. The conversation includes, but is not limited to: hermit crab housing, hair shirts, the human embodiment of plants, horse skeletons...

Lisa Lee! Chicago social justice visionary, former Director of Jane Addam's Hull-House and current Director of the University of Illinois Chicago's School of Art and Art History! Hell yes. Recorded at the Oakland Museum at Open Engagement 2016. Here is the UIC bio... Lisa Yun Lee is the Director of the School of Art & Art History, a visiting curator at the Jane Addams Hull-House Museum, and a memb...

Aay Preston-Myint joins Brian and Dana this week to discuss the alternative publishing imprint, No Coast ( http://no-coast.org/ ), and their newest endeavor, the Chicago Art Book Fair ( http://cabf.no-coast.org/ ), coming for the first time to the Chicago Athletic Association  November 16-19th . Preston-Myint schools us on some Chicago apartment gallery history and we discuss dinosaurs, the end. T...

A Monumental episode featuring the full Co-Directing cast of The Floating Museum, Faheem Majeed, Jeremiah Hulsebos-Spofford, Andrew Schachman, and Avery R. Young.  We parley over a loving critique of the traditional museum model, setting our sites on the whole city of Chicago for the foundation of a new museum.   Docked in it's penultimate port, the Floating Museum' barge can currently be found at...

A former contributor returns as guest. Marc LeBlanc is back and Chicago could not be more excited. We check in about his adventures in Berlin with Kavi Gupta Gallery and LA with the LA Contemporary, and now what the future M LeBlanc Gallery will be. We also learn a word with Ryan Peter Miller and discuss the MCA kickstarting Michael Rakowitz's Enemy Kitchen as part of his mid career retrospective....

This is a great week at Bad @ Sports Center if you were born under the sign Cancer. Painter Nicole Mauser and Artist/Graphic Designer Tobey Albright scuttle through the studio to discuss their upcoming curatorial endeavor,  Privates,  at Carthage College.   http://www.nicolemauser.com/ http://tobeyalbright.com   If today is your birthday, treat yourself to a delicious podcast.      Kinematic Nicol...

This week Bad at sports center was joined by Caroline (Coco) Picard to talk through her most recent graphic novel, "The Chronicles of Fortune."  http://www.cocopicard.com/ We also catch up about the goings on at Sector 2337 and the Green Lantern Press. Oh and there is always the specter of the anthropocene. http://sector2337.com/ http://sector2337.com/green-lantern-press/about-the-green-lantern-pr...

In this episode we track the musings and mellifluous tones of Candida Alvarez . Her retrospective is at the Chicago Cultural Center , her work has been included in the Kemper Survey of contemporary abstraction , and her work with COMME des GARÇONS  is just about to drop!   We trace the ins and outs of domesticity, abstraction, hallucinatory practices, poetics, Bruce Rauner's policies towards art a...

This shiny new episode of Bad @ Sports Center spotlights curator Raven Munsell. We chat about her latest curatorial project with 3rd Object, titled  Sneaker Boy Dreams , from artist Ashley Teamer. Munsell also sheds some light on the ACRE inspired exhibit at Heaven Gallery, Summer Sessions, before we dive deep into all that is ACRE. And finally, the light at the end of this illuminating tunnel, is...

Triple Exclamation Points. B@SC presents the top of the call sheet for the P.O.W.E.R. Project. In addition to being the acronym to end all acronyms - Preparation, Organization, Wonderment, Empowerment, Resistance – this project is the brilliant baby of the Comfort Station and the Art Leaders of Color Network (ACLN). Jordan Martins discusses the origin story of the Comfort Station, Felicia Holman s...

ERIN JANE NELSON!!!   The Psycopomp-er herself checks in do discuss Animal cognition, human speciesism, Aron Gent, threats to an Open Society, Fivver, Quilts, Jacquard fabric printing technology, operating as an artist and as an institution! http://sexmagazine.us/sexlife/erin-jane-nelson-at-hester/ http://psychopompopolis.net/ http://documentspace.com/exhibitions/erin-jane-nelson/ And the T... Sam...

This week we check in with Naima Keith and Ian Weaver...   Naima Keith Deputy Director of Exhibits and Programs at the California African American Museum and Chicago Art rocker and roller Ian Weaver join the show to talk about the Artadia Granting program , (COOK COUNTY - YOUR ARTADIA APPLICATIONS ARE DUE ON THE FIRST OF JUNE,) Museum Challenges, tindering artists, p rograming at CAAM , Pilsen and...

Ionit Behar !!!   This week we are joined by Spertus Curator and Independent force Ionit Beher.   We talk Spertus , Ben Shahn , Fieldwork Collaborative , the Chicago Parks District and Public Spaces, field houses and the "More Strange then True," the tension of Public Trust, and The bathroom as the site of the new Avante Garde.   Enjoy!    

This week Bad at Sports Center is joined by Deana Haggag! The newly appointed President and CEO of United States Artists! From Deana Haggag's site... Deana Haggag is the President & CEO of United States Artists , a national arts funding organization based in Chicago, IL. Before joining USA in February 2017, she was the Executive Director of The Contemporary , a nomadic and non-collecting art museu...

Paul Hopkin drops by to talk about surviving your art world, running a gallery and cultural enterprise, and what it is like to be late. Jason Dunda pinch hits while wait for Paul and talks about PAINTING. He also mentions support he has received from the Canada Council. We all take a moment to remember Vito Acconci and his seminal work: Seed Bed.  All and all this is a banter filled tart. Enjoy.