Bad at Sports

Is there an art scene in Wicker Park anymore? Why does Around the Coyote have such a crap reputation these days? Duncan asks the hard questions to Around the Coyote Executive Director Allison Stites and festival coordinator Jessie Cochran about what they are doing, what they are working on, and how they are trying to turn the program around, bring in quality curators and artists and make it releva...

Duncan and guest host Shannon Stratton talk to Lisa Stone curator of the Roger Brown study collection about what a kickass resource it is and what you can do, by simply clicking a mouse, to help save it. Kathryn Born checks in from the Hyde Park Art Center about their current show. Coming soon! Jim Elkins, Judy Ledgerwood, Dominic Molon on rock, Lee Bontecou, Tony Fitzpatrick versus Mike Benedetto...

This week Anthony Elms and Duncan talk to Marc Fischer about the Public Collectors project and other things. Then Marc LeBlanc and Brian Andrews talk about how Marc is turning Japanese, he thinks he's turning Japanese, he really thinks so…. The intro discusses how Philip von Zweck is a thug. Anthony, please, dear God, talk in to the mic, seriously. The following blurbs were shamelessly stolen from...

Jason Dunda and Teena McClelland (from the Alliance of Pentaphillic Curators) are back, along with Kathryn, Christopher Hudgens in a rare on mic appearance, Duncan, Terri and Serena all providing team coverage of opening extravaganza 2007. You are mentioned in this episode, seriously, no name drop list this week because you know you are in here, someone is talking about you, maybe something good,...

This episode is full of drama and mystery. Is this the middle of the end? Will Duncan and Richard ever work together again? Is the closing to this week's show the saddest thing ever on a podcast? Are squid the new deer? This week Clare Britt from Fraction Workspace returns and discusses La Biennale di Venezia with Duncan and Joanna. Listen closely and you too can be on the cusp of the hot new tren...

This week Clare Britt from Fraction Workspace stops by to give the run down on a couple of the European shows with Duncan and Joanna.   Namely Documenta and Munster . She will be back next week To consider Venice .   Also the fine and wacky folks form The Alliance of Pentaphilic Curators show up to encourage Philip von Zweck's friends to   explain why it should have been them while they "roast the...

The show opens with a bang! Britton Bertran's car is hit and we are the witnesses. And as you listen to this week's intro designed specifically to irritate Duncan, pause a moment and say to yourself..."Seriously?  Episode 104?"  Richard's parents have called us both to mention how happy they are.  Here we are poised on the cusp of another Bad at Sports season and this week Duncan is joined by frie...

Duncan and Terri talk to Carol Becker about the School of the Art Institute, the future of arts education, and her new position at Columbia University. ALSO: THE INCREDIBLE RETURN OF MIKE AND THE 30 SECONDS MOVIE REVIEWS with bonus seconds. Artist, Art Historian, and Dean, of Faculty and Senior Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She is the...

This week's show has everything. Brian and Marc with critic, writer, and all around interesting guy Julian Myers on rock and rioting.   Terri,   Joanna and Danielle Egan - Miller talk to Arik Verezhensky proprietor of Gemini Fine Books & Arts, Ltd. A collector and dealer in rare and amazing art and books, and art books, and maybe a few books on art.  To top it all off the show wraps up with some o...

AMANDA IS BACK!!! Duncan and Amanda talk to Jim Duignan about his current project at the Hyde Park Art Center. Super friend of Bad at Sports (and Director of Exhibitions at the HPAC) Allison Peters is there too! To wit: "Jim Duignan is an artist and founder of the Stockyard Institute , a project that draws attention to the visionary status of youth and people through the arts in a variety of Chica...

Richard joins Pittsburgh bureau chiefs Katie Reilly and Craig Fox along with special correspondent Sarah Guernsey to discuss the Mattress Factory. Also Terri and Joanna discuss Don DeLillo's latest Falling Man: A Novel. 100 shows. Wow.

Joanna, Amanda and Terri talk to Green Lantern Director Caroline Picard. Marc and Brian talk to the Aaron Gach of the Center for Tactical Magic in San Francisco. Richard continues his slide into "Ed Anger"dom.

This week Duncan and Richard talk to Julie Rodrigues Widholm and a number of the artists from the show about the hot hot hot new show at the MCA - Escultura Social: A New Generation of Art from Mexico City. Duncan talks to Packard Jennings about his residency at ThreeWalls. Richard is turning into Ed Anger.

THIS WEEK: Superstar gallerist Jack Hanley is interviewed by Brian and Marc. Our own beloved Mike Benedetto reviews Terry Gilliam's Tideland and is responsible for the intro to this week's show. The London bureau's Christian and Emily talk about lots of gallery shows.

Jeff Wall, people! Canadian superstar Jeff Wall is interviewed by Duncan and Richard when he was in Chicago for the opening of his huge new show at the Art Institute of Chicago: Jeff Wall June 29-September 23, 2007 Regenstein Hall Jeff Wall is considered one of the most acclaimed and influential artists of his generation. He uses state-of-the-art photographic and computer technologies to make pict...

Allright so my computer is fairly f-ed and therefore this show note will be even less witty than usual. A bunch of post-its are wedged between the keyboard and the video processor to hold it in place. Curse you IBM. Duncan and Marc LeBlanc talk to Caleb Lyons of Old Gold Gallery and formerly of Art Ledge.   Duncan talks to artist Lisa Boumstein-Smalley about her new show at the Alfedena Gallery. B...

This Week: Guest interviewer Lisa Dorin talks to German artist Jana Gunstheimer (see the blurb shamelessly lifted from the AIC website, below). ALSO we get two different perspectives on the fight over the Public Art Program and how they handle the selection and approval process. Kathryn talks to Olga Stefan Executive Director of the Chicago Artists' Coalition at Monday's protest rally, and Duncan...

This week Michelle Grabner and Duncan interview Gaylen Gerber. "Gaylen Gerber's work often incorporates the artwork of other artists in its realization. Gerber asks other artists to cooperate with him and let their work be installed against the ground he provides. In doing so he focuses our attention on a central aspect of perception, which is that to perceive something at all you must first be ab...

Are you tired of all the self obsessed, cynical, angry art that's out there today? Well Alex   Jovanovich is out there to fix what ails you and point you in the right direction! Terri talks to Alex about his Loveliness Workshops. Next, Kathryn talks to Paul Klein about the screwed up stuff going on with public art funding in Chicago . Paul is working of some interesting activist stuff and we will...

This week Terri talks to Gregg Bordowitz and David Getsy about queer art, queer theory and what it means to be queer in 2007.   Duncan and Meg were there too, but it is mostly Terri, Gregg and David's show. Gregg Bordowitz is a writer, AIDS activist, and film-and videomaker. His work, including Fast Trip, Long Drop (1993) and Habit (2001), documents his personal experiences of testing positive and...

Special Correspondent Tony Fitzpatrick interviews Time Out Chicago's Ruth Lopez about just about everything. It's an engaging and insightful conversation. Duncan and Richard chime in now and again. The show closes with further proof that if there is an obscure musical tidbit in Tony's past, we can find it.    

This week Book Reviews and West Coast News! Terri Griffith and Joanna Topor review Miranda July's book No One Belongs Here More Than You. Worked in to the commentary is discussion of the Mackenzie's sex life and Oprah's use of the phrase Vah-Jay-Jay. Brian Andrews and Marc LeBlanc talk to curator Joseph del Pesco and artist Scott Oliver about the Collective Foundation.   The Collective Foundation...

This week Art Fair Part Deux. In response to blog comments I am attempting something new, and listing the times of the bits. Which I must say is one more damn task to complete for the show, but I'll try it and see if it drives me insane. 0:00-11:25 Intro, overall recap and lots of snotty commentary by Duncan, Amanda, and Richard.   11:40-22:10 Team Browder (Amanda and Dolly Browder) with Susan Hob...

As we recover from Sharkstock 2007 we diligently post Episode #87 the first installment of our team coverage of Artropolis, Version, Bridge, Sharkstock and a bunch of other cool stuff we went to in the last few days. Also prior to our soiree at Sonotheque we it Tony Fitzpatrick's kickass opening at Architrove which was so crowded I nearly had a panic attack, I got to meet his Mom, who was utterly...

THIS WEEK: Interviews with Leslie Hindman, Wesley "The Shark? Kimler,   and Michael "Makes icky noises into the mic which I need to edit out? Workman. Marc LeBlanc and Brian Andrews talk Los Angeles Galleries at 95 miles per hour. ATTENTION ALL BAD AT SPORTS LISTENERS: Amanda's Mom will be in Chicago next week! When you are at the various and sundry art fairs BE SURE to keep an eye out for Amanda...