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Janet Cardiff’s  Forty Part Motet  is composed of forty speakers arranged in eight groups of five, configured as a large oval facing each other in the center of the room, and resting on stands so they are roughly just above eye level. The  Motet,  as Cardiff referred to it in our conversation, is a reworking of the English composer Thomas Tallis's Spem in Alium  (1570), which translates as “Hope i...

This week: Amanda believes the children are the future, she thinks you should teach them well and let them lead the way. Amanda wants to show you all the beauty you possess inside. Noah Lyon decided long ago, never to walk in anyone's shadow, if he fails if he succeeds, at least he'll live as he believes. No matter what we take from you, fine listeners, you are in the art world, you abdicated your...

This week, Mumbai-based artist Jitish Kallat returns to Bad at Sports, this time from San Francisco, where he sits down with Patricia Maloney. Listeners may remember Kallat’s first appearance on the podcast on the eve of the opening for his large-scale installation, Public Notice 3 (2010-11), in the Fullerton Hall stairwell of the Art Institute of Chicago. Kallat, one of the most prominent figures...

This week we are totally ashamed of Chicago and are collectively horrified by the Tragic death of Laquan McDonald. #blacklivesmatter We are joined by venerable Dread Scott to talk through the problems and possibilities that exist in contemporary America.  

This week: Recorded live on stage September 18, 2015 at Expo Chicago as a part of the Dialogs series, we talk to Nancy Lupo and Laylah Ali! You have to tell them...Soylent Green is people!!   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9IKVj4l5GU4  

This week we are joined by the Emmy Award winning novelist, screen writer and Chicago based social worker, Ben Tanzer thanks go out to Columbia College Chicago's "Late Late Afternoon Show." Ben's blog and Podcast This Will Change your Life  has treated the literary world much like B@S  has treated the Contemporary Art world. It is worth checking out.

Real show note to follow.

This week we present an interview recorded live at EXPO Chicago with Latham Zearfoss one of the leaders of a decade long party called Chances Dances. You will have to tune in to almost, but not quite, the end where we actually break a little news. You have time to catch their Gallery 400 show or hit them up on the internet at http://www.chancesdances.org/ . Turns Out they know how to party, with e...

This week we present literally exactly what happened when Duncan did this: EXPO VIDEO | Alfredo Cramerotti In Conversation Featuring Alfredo Cramerotti , Director | MOSTYN and 2015 EXPO VIDEO Curator Malerie Marder , Artist and Cauleen Smith , Artist. Moderated by Duncan MacKenzie , Bad at Sports Internationally acclaimed curator in film, video and new media Alfredo Cramerotti will be in conversat...

Bad at Sports finishes our 5 episode look back with a return to the cultural impact of Hou Hanru. He casts a shadow that has only grown longer in the 8 years since we originally aired this interview. We are excited to return to his thinking right after his appointment to the Guggenheim  as Consulting Curator to The Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation Chinese Art Initiative.    

This week we look back at our interview with AA Bronson founding member of General Idea and Printed Matter.

The return of the Amanda Browder Show!!! She brings back her favorite memory from episodes past... Polly Apfelbaum!!!

As we look back on ten years we pull a second episode back into the light... Luc Tuymans! We also reflect a little on how next week is EXPO Chicago week.

This week: As there is a lovely write-up on us in the paper, we pull our most popular episode out from the vault, blow the dust off, lovingly re-present our interview with the brilliant Kerry James Marshall for your enjoyment. If you are a first time listener please browse the archive there is some fun stuff.  Love and Kisses,   RH

Brian and Patricia celebrate Bad at Sports's West Coast Bureau's aniversary a couple of weeks early. Patricia filled this as the show note... If I could turn back time  If I could find a way I'd take back those words that hurt you and you'd stay I don't know why I did the things I did I don't know why I said the things I said  Pride's like a knife it can cut deep inside  Words are like weapons the...

This week: Duncan will put a note here soon!

This week: TEN YEARS MAN...TEN YEARS!! This week we bid a sad farewell to our good friend James Elkins who has told art history "It isn't you, it's me, but at this point in my life I feel like I can't be tied down to a genre, I need to be free to see other modes of writing." Yes, it is true Art, he sat down for our interview and said ""you don't have Elkins to kick around any more, because, gentle...

This week: The return of the The Amanda Browder Show! we talk with artist Katya Grokhovsky from her exhibition/residency at Soho20 in NYC. We talk about her work, performance as a medium, artist as curator and her discussion panels surrounding feminism, and the contemporary art world.    www.katyagrokhovsky.net http://katyagrokhovsky.tumblr.com/ http://feministurgent.tumblr.com/ http://soho20galle...

This week, Brian and Patricia (and her stealth interns) talk shop and the sublime with Renny Pritikin, Chief Curator of the Contemporary Jewish Museum, in San Francisco. Currently on view at the CJM is  Night Begins the Day: Rethinking Space, Time, and Beauty,  which tackles fear and awe, time and frailty, and the limits of seeing in our age of technological innovation. The always frank and open P...

This week things get crazy. We check in from inside the Cultural Center with Tracie Hall and Amy Mooney. Together we look into the heart of the building, the city, and explore the legacy of Archibald Motley. This weeks show is dedicated to Paul Woodrow . Our hearts go out to his family.   Motley's show is still up. Go check it out.   1.      Archibald J. Motley Jr., Blues , 1929. Oil on canvas, 36...

This week Mark is back from Europe! From Waterside Contemporary ... Colin Guillemet’s (b.1979) work highlights the difficulty of describing art, concepts and ideas. Where self-expression is concerned it seems words are not enough. Confronted with his work mixed senses of confusion and comprehension occurs, the viewer is convinced they understood something, but does not know exactly what. Guillemet...

This week we catch up with Orit Gat  at  Superscript2015.  This was one of the most honest conversation we have had in years. I think the context of being surrounded by arts writers created the prefect context for frankness.  Thanks go out to our sponser Coagula Curatorial  and our friends at the Walker . Orit Gat from her web site... Orit Gat is a writer based in New York and London. She writes a...

This week we catch up with Aldo Hernandez and Dr. Dan Berger of Iceberg Projects to talk about Art +Positive, Act Up, and the legacy for the 80s and 90s. From Iceberg Projects... Iceberg Projects is pleased to present selections from the Art+ Positive archives, curated by Dr. Daniel Berger and John Neff. The first exhibition of the group’s archive, this show is the first step in an ongoing project...

Holy SHIT! Janine Antoni! shamelessly lifted from Art 21... Janine Antoni was born in Freeport, Bahamas, in 1964. She received her BA from Sarah Lawrence College in New York, and earned her MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1989. Antoni’s work blurs the distinction between performance art and sculpture. Transforming everyday activities such as eating, bathing, and sleeping into ways of...

On December 12, 2014, the Second Kochi-Muziris Biennale, curated by artist Jitish Kallat, opened in Kerala, India. The second edition of the Kochi-Muziris Biennale built upon the themes from the first Kochi-Muziris Biennale. So, before we dive into the second edition, let’s first revisit Indian’s inaugural international Biennale.   The first edition opened on December 12, 2012. It was a huge event...