Bad at Sports

Local up and coming Chicago Art starlet Melanie Schiff is quizzed about what it is like to be curated into the 2008 Whitney Biennial, her work and WTF is up with contemporary Photography.  Oak Park correspondent/Chicago Art Star Tony Tasset co-hosts.

This week Caleb Lyons, one of the directors at Chicago curious space "Old Gold," drops in to interview John Phillips and Tony Wight about the current changes at Bodybuilder and Sportsman/Tony Wight Gallery, John and Caleb's exhibitions, contemporary abstract painting, and we once again tackle the topic of what is a hipster?. Where is Richard?

Sorry. We were a little slow due to power outages and the mediocre AT&T. Episode: Art Critic Greg Cook (The Boston Globe, The Boston Phoenix) joins Matt Nash, James Nadeau and Christian Holland of Big RED & Shiny to discuss the 2008 AICA New England Awards. Using the list of winners as a starting point, they discuss the state of the arts in New England and what they thought was great, mediocre and...

This week the show is Co-hosted by Lori Waxman, recorded live in coffee shop on a Saturday night during dinner.  She and Duncan check out what is going on in the Chicago Alternative spaces. San Francisco beats down Eli Broad/LACMA and it turns out Marc LeBlanc is part of the oppressive white male hegemony. Ah, Bad at Sports is "sweet as pie."  Let the hate mail flow freely.

This week, Amanda and Tom Sanford talk to Shaun O'Dell and Emily Prince about Shaun's show "We Remember the Sun? at the Susan Inglett Gallery. Shaun O'Dell makes drawings, videos, music and sometimes sculpture. His work explores the intertwining realities of the human and natural orders. O'Dell has exhibited his work at many venues, including the Jack Hanley Gallery in San Francisco and Los Angele...

This week Duncan and the always delightful Jeff Ward talk to Stephanie Smith, the Director of Collections and Exhibitions and Curator of Contemporary Art at the Smart Museum in Chicago about the current exhibition Adaptation: Video Installations by Ben-Ner, Herrera, Sullivan, and Sussman & The Rufus Corporation. Holy guacamole am I sick this week, yuck. One of the joys of having a child in daycare...

This week Brian, Marc, and Patrica sit down with Hou Hanru for a conversation over wine and olives. Currently the Director of Exhibitions and Public Programs at SFAI, Hanru has curated a number of major international exhibitions including the Istanbul Biennale , Guangzhou Triennale , and 50th Venice  Biennale . The interview spans from Hanru's education in china after the cultural revolution, glob...

Ok, so you have listened to our BS for 127 episodes or so, so this week we introduce an exciting new program for BAS. We will from time to time invite guest curators on to put together an episode of Bad at Sports. This week, Artist, Curator, Musician, Gallerist, Radio Host and recipient of the 2007 Richard H. Driehaus Foundation grant, Philip von Zweck does a show focused on the area from whence h...

Amanda interviews artist and master of "celebutard portraiture" Tom Sanford. (our apologies to the mis-spelling of Tom's name on the MP3, BAS's shit-togetherness shines through). Duncan bitches a bit more about the Art Institute. And can we have a moment of silence for Mort Garson, please.

The Central European Bureau, "EuroShark? Mark Staff Brandl and his new partner Lamis El Farra interview Alex Meszmer of the art team Meszmer/Müller. Meszmer discusses the exhibition they curated at Projektraum Exex titled "Deconstructing Eden – Fragments of a Perfect Life,? their transitory museum-in-progress called Zeitgarten , the Swiss professional artists' organization Visarte, and the new gro...

100 minutes of raw power! Brian and Marc talk to Tim Fleming, Director of Art LA. If that weren't enough for a whole show, we go that extra mile and knock your socks off!!! Lori Waxman and Duncan check out the current batch of shows around the West Loop . Did they review your show, oh yes they did, you'd better listen.

FIRST: Duncan and Jeff Ward talk to photographer Laura Letinsky about her work and recent exhibition at Monique Meloche. Laura Letinsky has exhibited her color photographs in numerous venues, including the Museum of Modern Art , New York City ; Casino Luxembourg ; The Nederlands Foto Institute; the Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography, Ottawa ; and the Museum of Contemporary Photography , C...

Duncan and Terri talk to Anne Elizabeth Moore about her book Unmarketable: Brandalism, Copyfighting, Mocketing, and the Erosion of Integrity and related topics. For years the do-it-yourself (DIY)/punk underground has worked against the logic of mass production and creative uniformity, disseminating radical ideas and directly making and trading goods and services. But what happens when the undergro...

First: Amanda Browder and guest host Tom Sanford talk to New York Gallerist Leo Koenig. From the Leo Koenig Site: Leo Koenig opened his gallery in 1999 in Williamsburg , Brooklyn . There, he presented both promising young talent and established, historically significant artists. Within a year, the gallery moved to Manhattan , first to a space in Tribeca, then to Centre street in soho, where we wer...

Need something to listen to during your holiday travels? Well we are back once again with the BAS Holiday Spectacular! Over an hour of eclectic holiday related music, mirth and mayhem. First a solid hour of gems from the BAS vault, some things you love, some things you hate, some things that will surprise you. We finish it off with the West Coast Bureau playing holiday madlibs. Not to be missed.

First: Shannon and Duncan talk Robert Reinard, Program Director, Collections & Exhibitions and Amanda Curtis, Program Director, Education from Intuit. Intuit is a not-for-profit organization founded in 1991. Our mission is to promote public awareness, understanding, and appreciation of intuitive and outsider art through a program of education and exhibition. Toward this end, Intuit strives to disc...

The festival of Elkins! Duncan talks with James Elkins about globalism, imperialism's and all sorts of lighthearted stuff.  This is audio that was recorded this summer at The Stone Theory Institute's first iteration; 2007: The Globalization of Art, co-organized with Zhivka Valiavicharska.  Bad At Sport sat in on the whole thing and has pretty much every second on tape.  We will be posting five sec...

  Marc and Brian interview Dawn Kasper with John Knuth of Circus Gallery featuring Michael   Bauer of The Confederacy of Creative Ephemera. Duncan talks to the delightful Ryan Schultz of Navta Schultz Gallery in Chicago about running a gallery, art fairs and the trajectory of the business. NEXT WEEK: The Festival of Elkins!!!  

Amanda is back and you're gonna be in trouble, hey nah hey nah, Amanda's back!!! Amanda Browder and Nathan Rogers-Madsen talk New York. Mike Benedetto reveals his Transformer wish.

Critic and Curator Jeff Ward joins Duncan and Richard in interviewing Comic theorist, artist, educator and all around kickass guy Scott McCloud. From Scott McCloud's website (www.scottmccloud.com) "At the age of 15, I remember telling my friend Kurt Busiek "I've decided to become a professional comic book artist." It was the Summer between 10th and 11th Grades. My previous decision to become World...

Holy crap! This show is an instant classic. Richard returns; not only to production duty but also, at long last, to interview duty. Painter and art legend Judy Ledgerwood is our guest. Guest host Tony Tasset joins in on interviewing duties to ask the hard hitting questions. Not to be missed. The following bio is shamelessly stolen from the Hyde Park Art Center, please don't sue us: In the traditio...

On this week's exciting Episode, number 114... Art Forum's Anthony Elms and Bad at Sports' Duncan MacKenzie interrogate Carol Jackson about her dynamite exhibition at Gallery 400, and Terri Griffith and Joanna MacKenzie take apart John Andoe's "Jubilee City: A Memoir at Full Speed".  It doesn't get any better then this. Also, to the person who scrawled "I MISS RICHARD" in lipstick on the mirror of...

Duncan and Richard talk to Tracy Marie Taylor, artist and curator who curated the new show Bilingual, Art at the Intersection of Painting and Video. Bilingual focuses on artwork at the intersection of painting and drawing, film and video, encompassing both conceptual and process-driven approaches. The artists in this exhibition are acting as visual linguists or interpreters, breaking down one lang...

This week: Marc and Brian talk to Trevor Paglen. "Trevor Paglen is an artist, writer, and experimental geographer working out of the Department of Geography at the University of California , Berkeley . His work involves deliberately blurring the lines between social science, contemporary art, and a host of even more obscure disciplines in order to construct unfamiliar, yet meticulously researched...

Duncan and Richard talk to Dominic Molon about, Sympathy for the Devil: Art and Rock and Roll Since 1967. There are lots of "Rock out with your cock out!" kind of stupid comments. Paul Klein and Wesley hated it, hear from the curator go check out the show and see what you think. From the MCA site: " Sympathy for the Devil: Art and Rock and Roll Since 1967  examines the dynamic relationship between...