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Art Schoolin' Extravaganza!! This week's show is an f-ing masterpiece, miss this one at your peril. This week we talk to in turn professors: James Elkins, Sarah Kreep (organizer of the New InSight exhibition), and Lane Relyea about the future of art education, art students, and the future of the art business among many other topics! Mike and Richard have dueling reviews of Frank Miller's 300! BUT...

This week's show is top notch, grade A stuff, Jack, and you sure don't want to miss it.   Art, religion, smurfs, Dungeons and Dragons, Duncan rattling on like an old man about how kids today just don't understand punk rock, AND the show closes with Richard's favorite music cue in the entire run of the program, a little pop diddy on Marx and Mao. A show with something for everyone. Duncan and Terri...

This week Brian and Marc talk to Mary Leigh Cherry is co-owner of Cherry and Martin gallery in Los Angeles and works with the Artist Pension Trust. AND Nathan Rogers-Madsen reviews PS-1! Richard ends the show with a plea and a funny song.

This week Duncan and Richard talk to David Robbins. David Robbins has had 30 solo exhibitions of his work internationally and has recently been included in exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art , New York , the Museum of Contemporary Art , Chicago , and the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris , France . He has published four books, including a novella, The Ice Cream Social (1998), and his essays and...

This week's show is a cavalcade of amazing-ness. Duncan and Richard talk to Joseph Ketner II, Chief Curator at the Milwaukee Art Museum where we ask the question "did Francis Bacon simply need a hug?". Next, there is an excerpt from a lecture by Christopher Kennedy, President, Merchandise Mart Properties, Inc., on the future of the Art Fair here in Chicago which is not to be missed as we move ever...

This week: Marc LeBlanc and Brian Andrews talk to Berin Gonlonu, Associate Visual Arts Curator at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. Mike Benedetto makes his fabulous return. Nathan Rodgers-Madsen interviews Erik Wenzel of the Art or Idiocy? blog and numerous other artistic and journalistical type projects. Yup.

Bad at Sports Episode 79: Reviews In this episode Bad at Sports welcomes guest reviewers... Boston up   and comer Liz Nofziger and Columbia College 's Neysa Page-Lieberman.   They join Bad at Sports locals Terri Griffith, Serena Worthington,   Joanna Topor, and Duncan MacKenzie as we shake up and shake down shows in the west loop. Tune in as they struggle to come to terms with Gescheidle's two new...

This week on Bad at Sports: Duncan and Amanda talk to the fine folks in charge of OPENPORT: Realtime Performance, Sound, & Language curated by Nathan Butler, Mark Jeffery, Judd Morrissey, and Lori Talley. THE SQUARE DANCE EVENT IS THIS SATURDAY!!! BE THERE OR ....well... you get the idea. Also, we wonder why Edward Lifson has negative feelings towards us??? Next, Brian Andrews on collecting praise...

This week: Duncan and Amanda talk to Jose Lerma about painting, art, and the Badgers. Joanna Topor and Terri Griffith cross swords about literature and minotaurs. Bad at Sports readies for battle.

Canadian superstar Rodney Graham joins us. Duncan, Meg and Richard talk to the man that turned driving around on your bicycle on acid in to an art form. I was genius at 18 and I had no idea!!! Jeepers. Special thanks and a BAS shout-out to Tiffany Tummala and Bren Wadlington at Donald Young Gallery!!!!!! You rock, rock us like a hurricane. Next, Mike Benedetto reviews a touching and timely story o...

This week we talk to the artists and curator of the stellar new show at Monique Meloche, Chronic: Handmade Nightmares in Red, Yellow and Blue. Duncan, Richard and Amanda together again interview Fendry Ekel, Dylan Graham, Fokert de Jong, and curator Astrid Honold. Exciting conversation, interesting insight, talk about the many meanings of "chronic". Fun times!!! ALSO THIS WEEK: The Duncan haircut...

While you the Bad at Sports listener only get a taste of it, the interview portion of this week's show demonstrates precisely why Richard needs to be present to be a jerk for these things or they devolve into chaos. Luckily our cut rate production staff pulled it together and it sounds something akin to coherent. This week Duncan, Amanda and Chris Walla, talk to, or at least try to talk to Steve L...

Duncan and David Michael Coyle interview Terence Hannum, artist, critic, musician and all around swell guy about his forthcoming show in the MCA's 12 x 12 series " Evocation"

This week, The Bad at Sports Staff Meeting intro! Michael Velliquette joins Amanda and Duncan in review shows galore, heck maybe even yours. Don't miss it. We are doing a show from CAA, if you are interviewing, being interviewed, presenting, or just there for the non-stop action and fun, we are looking to get brief reviews of the experience from you! E-mail us and we will set up a meeting place at...

Holy guacamole fun times! This week Kathryn Born interviews Natalie van Straaten. Mark Staff Brandl talks about Jeff Hoke's kickass book-website-museum Museum of Lost Wonder . Mike Benedetto gives a DOUBLE FEATURE REVIEW. Lastly there is a special bonus treat at the end of this week�s show, it is a surprise. Natalie van Straaten has been a professional writer on arts subjects for more than 30 ye...

Duncan and Terri talk to James Elkins about his books, criticism and more! Mike Benedetto provides an utterly hilarious movie review and public service announcement. From Mr. Elkins' web site: James Elkins grew up in Ithaca, New York, separated from Cornell University by a quarter-mile of woods once owned by the naturalist Laurence Palmer. He stayed on in Ithaca long enough to get the BA degree (i...

Duncan and Richard interview art superstar Gavin Turk!!! As set forth in Wikipedia: Gavin Turk (born 1967) is a British artist and one of the Young British Artists (YBAs). He often uses his own image in life-size sculptures of famous people. He was born in Guildford, near London , and went to the Royal College of Art. However, in 1991, the tutors refused to give him the final degree because of his...

BAS vs. Miami . This week the recap of Bad at Sports' trip to Miami Basel. We open with words of advice from BAS. Then we talk to see, review and mumble about the goings on in Miami People who had something to say this show include: Lisa Dorin: Assistant Curator at the Art Institute of Chicago Lisa Boyle: Head Honcho Lisa Boyle Gallery, Bird-Horse-Muffin coach. Christopher Vroom Collector and  Art...

This week Duncan and Richard talk to Tony Feher about his work and installation at The Suburban in Oak Park . The following is shamelessly lifted from the Worcester Art Museum 's site : American artist Tony Feher has become a leading voice among his generation of sculptors. Rooted in the legacy of Minimalism, Feher's understated use of humble, �forgettable� materials that he finds�bottles, j...

This week we talk to Susan F. Rossen, Executive Director of Publications at the Art Institute of Chicago about the new show at Corbett vs. Dempsey: Joseph Friebert, Fred Berman, & the Milwaukee Scene 1935-1965 . Also Mike Benedetto has his first Superstar Special movie review.   And, Brian Andrews and Marc LeBlanc talk to Joyce Grimm and Dina Pugh   about Triple Base gallery, and creating a space...

THIS WEEK: the Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art's Manilow Senior Curator Francesco Bonami interviewed live a Three Walls on Tuesday November 21, 2006.   Francesco gives his frank and funny perspective on everything from why Australian art is bad, compares Kentuckians to Europeans, and talks about the role of the curator as artist. Well the residency is over. Thanks for coming. Thanks to Three Wa...

Reports galore! Duncan talks to the crew from Bridge about the impending Miami madness. Newly knighted European bureau chief Mark Staff Brandl talks lots of shows across the pond. Mike Benedetto talks Kurosawa's Rahomom. Brian Andrews on Portland . Wow! That's a whole lotta show. Thanks to Mr. Moon for helping out with the intro. We need an audio intern. E-mail us if you have a clue, and don't min...

Chicago gallerist and legend Rhona Hoffman recorded live in a discussion with Bad at Sports at Three-Walls, on November 7, 2006, election day... when happy days arrived again. Links and a more elaborate show note to follow...

This week is an almost completely Richard free show! Duncan and Terri talk to giant of consciousness W.J.T. Mitchell about his book What Do Pictures Want? : The Lives and Loves of Images . Also, they discuss how kissing is sucking on a several hundred yard long tube with feces at the end. Mike Benedetto gives us a 30 second movie review. Duncan talks to Vanessa Chafen about Bridge-Miami. Kathryn B...

Internationally renown, Chicago based, artist Kerry James Marshall talks to Bad at Sports live before a studio audience on October 24, 2006. Mr. Marshall talks about his work, race, the art world, his career trajectory, and reveals that art school is the biggest fraud of all time! Also, audience participation! This is a fantastic interview, don't miss it. UP NEXT!!!  NOVEMBER 7: Rhona Hoffman, int...