Bad at Sports

This week Richard, Duncan , Brian and Meg the-sexy-single-lesbian-intern talk to one of the Seven Most Important Curators, Hamza Walker. We talk about everything under the sun from Neal Adams to Duncan being a "dour Canadian". also: Brian Andrews and Marc LeBlanc talk about galleries in San Francisco and make fun of us Midwesterners for living in the cold. Those assholes. DO NOT MISS THE RESIDENCY...

This week: Lisa Boyle talks about her gallery's recent move. She schools our listeners on how emerging artists should and should not approach galleries. She tells us about the fascinating game(?) Bird Horse Muffin which totally blows Richard and Duncan's tiny little minds. Michael Benedetto: our new 30 second film critic reviews The Proposition. Richard, Duncan and Amanda review shows at Kavi Gupt...

Richard interviews Amanda Browder, Chris Walla, Aris Georgiades and Gail Simpson about Art 44/46 : Curated by Stuart Keeler, Art 44/46 is a public art exhibition that will be featuring a variety of artists who are showing pieces publicly. Some are performances, some are sculptural pieces, some are video installations, etc.! All in the 44th and 46th Wards of Chicago . The wards are roughly between...

Chicago Artists Month kicks off! Amanda and Richard go to the opening shindig at the Cultural Center and review the shows there-in, Richard confirms his lack of interest in photography, Amanda says "Op-Art" 92 times, everyone loves Ukrainian Modernism! Woo Hoo! In memory o....I mean in the absence of Duncan we pulled an archival book review, Joanna Topor and Book Guru Terry Griffith discuss Duncan...

Amanda, Duncan and Richard talk to Collectors and swell hosts Curt and Jennifer Conklin. Rapping! Ranting!! The Residency is coming soon! The Blog is now at www.badatsports.com

On this week's show Duncan and Richard talk to Gregory Knight Deputy Commissioner/Visual Arts of the Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs. Kathryn Born interviews Brian Shannon on the wild and wacky world of insuring art collections. Big Red and Shiny checks in from Boston. Brian Andrews talks about the East Bay. Jason Dunda is on for a minute or so to make fun of incoming art undergrads and Dun...

Amanda and Richard talked to loads of folks in the Peoria Street area for the 2006-2007 season kick off, maybe even you! Lots of people you know or have heard of get drunk and say embarrassing things! Awesome! Also, Brian Andrews sets the world straight on how totally fucking stupid Burning Man is. MTV owns you, you sad, sad west-coasters who have more money than imagination, fuck the pre-packaged...

Tony Tasset, what a damn nice guy. This week we visited the Tasset/Ledgerwood studio-fortress complex. We drove in a rented Humvee for hours into the jungle and were ushered in by the armed guard. The interview is not to be missed. The outro to this show has a special cameo by Dominic Molon. Also... The Crocodile Hunter is dead.

Wow. The opening few seconds is payback for the West Town Gallery network map. How dare you. Duncan has never eaten a bratwurst in his life. Anyway. 52 weeks worth of shows. Damn.   "We're not the first, I hope we're not the last 'Cause I know we're all heading for that adult crash The times is so little, the time belongs to us Why is everybody in such a fucking rush? Make do with what you have Ta...

Chicago art legend William Conger!!! He's taught many of you, heck he's taught some of your teachers. Guest host Tony Fitzpatrick joins Duncan in this great discussion that covers everything from what a great guy Ed Paschke was, to a lengthy discussion of Wesley Kimler which is not to be missed. Much talk about art history in Chicago and an overall fascinating time. The longest episode yet, but ev...

Duncan and Amanda interview Dan Devening about his current "editions project", what printmaking is today, and his new exhibition space. Everyone talks to Chris Walla, all around kickass guy and professor at Moorhead State University in Moorehead Minnesota. And Duncan and Richard have a show that opens Saturday at the Suburban and an open Bad at Sports mic WTF?  The Suburban is Located at 244 West...

Julia Marsh from BAT joins Duncan for some reviews of group shows around Peoria Street. Terri Griffith talks American Psycho with Duncan and there is a solid digression into Eddie Murphy's failed pop music career. Richard and Duncan talk about their upcoming show and are mean to some jerks who sent us pithy e-mails to complain. Much fun is had by all. This week's intro contains some music by local...

Duncan interviews Marc LeBlanc, Texas checks in led by Laura Lark and Jeff Ward. Richard is moving and unhappy. Bill Basquin Marc LeBlanc 1R Gallery Van Harrison Gallery Ghosts are Everywhere Bucket Rider Gallery Beautiful Decay Duchess Gallery VonZweck Art Ledge Paul Klein Bridge Magazine New Catalog Wendy Cooper Gallery Three Walls 40000 Gallery Terrence McKenna John Parot Jason Lazarus and Lind...

Industry of the Ordinary, Matthew Wilson and Adam Brooks talk about football (soccer to us yanks), their projects and FIGHT NIGHT!!! We here at Bad at Sports can't wait to take all comers in the ring! Also our new book advocate Terri Griffith talks about Paul D. Miller (aka DJ Spooky) and his new book Rhythm Science. Bad At Sports Podcast Barry White Adam Brooks Mathew Wilson Industry of the Ordin...

Kat Parker and Katie Rashid tell us about Duchess, their new gallery. Brian Andrews does his own dramatic interpretation of Matthew Barney's recent radio Q&A as his publicist didn't think we were important enough to interview him. Brian's brilliant dramatics really pull Bad at Sports in a whole new direction, changing our trajectory forever. Wow. Who could ask for more?!? Show note and links to fo...

So, this week we try and get a handle on WTF is going on in Chicago and LA today. Lynne Warren Talks about the work of Robert Heinecken and the hole left by his passing. Brian tells us that LA is still crummby and then sites his case studies. Amanda and Duncan hit Polvo, The Cultural Center, and the Museum of Contermporary Photography. Also Please note on the http://badatsport.libsyn.com blog for...

Chicago art legend, radio personality, poet, actor, boxer, and all around nice guy Tony Fitzpatrick talks about Tattoo history, Chicago's art world, the working class mode of being an artist and why this is a kick-ass time and place to be. Richard, Duncan, and Amanda bob their heads along as this legendary Chicagoan story teller entrances us with yarns of Al Capone, Nixon's stolen election, Amanda...

This Week: Episode 43:  3 Three Editors from Blunt Art Text BAT Magazine: Blunt Art Text.  Like ninjas of art journalism, these evil doers sneak around and do smart, thoughtful reviews and publish them in their journal.  We thought we had the drop on them, but nope the lights when out and Richard and I found ourselves tied together, laying on train tracks.  Who knew Richard was born with a prehens...

Wesley Kimler (painter, agitator, and co-founder of http://www.sharkforum.org ) slices and dices the Chicago art world.  Ouch.  Wesley gives us the skinny on being an artist in Chicago, who is ruining the Chicago art world, and what we can do to start turning it all around.  The man is not afraid to name names and calls for the heads of many a Chicago Art world insider.  Chicago, meet the "Shark."...

Oh dear.  It is a review-a-ton.   For those of you who wondered why Duncan had been muzzled as of late,  your answer is here as he and Amanda rant with willful abandon (mostly Duncan).  Once again he brings shame to his family as we review shows at VON ZWECK, The Mars Gallery, NOVA, Garden Fresh, Live Box, Kasia Kay, Navta Schulz Gallery, Rowland Contemporary, Schopf Gallery, and Three Walls.  Ouc...

This week we corner MCA Chicago Curator and generally popular guy, Dominic Molon.  We ask him about Wolfgang Tillmans and what the MCA thinks it's doing for Chicago Art.  Joy Division! Photography! The Challanges of the '12x12' project! What is wrong with the 12 x 12 series? Dominic explains whose fault it really is that Chicago Artists are not getting out there.  We also discuss the latest instal...

Lane Relyea is back for more mirth, music, and mayhem. What is the future of art criticism? What is wrong with art students today? Are we too hung up on artist from the 80's? Are you wrong for holding a day job? Is Pollock mainstream? Is Death Cab for Cutie lame compared to the Postal Service? Why is Lane so hung up on ties? Is Amanda pregnant? Does Richard have three weeks to live? Will Duncan ev...

Richard, Duncan and Amanda venture off to the lovely home of James Yood, critic of Artforum, and professor at SAIC. We talk about the raw humorless power of the Chicago art scene and reminice about days gone by.....oh boy. Houston checks in! James Yood Artforum SAIC Fred Camper The Chicago Reader Art News New Art Examiner Art Chicago Ivan Albright George Bellows John Sloan Thomas Eatkins Thomas Bl...

Reviews of loads of shows from Chicago, New York, LA, and Boston. bigredandshiny.com checks in from Boston, Nathan Rogers-Madsen reviews the Whitney Biennial, The BAS crew talks about LA, Art School Confidential, and the current crop of shows here in Chicago. Plus talk about pirates! Museum of Jurassic Technology Scion Gallery/Space Donald Young James Welling Getty Museum Gustave Courbet John Hear...

Raymond Pettibon! We talk to art star and punk legend Raymond Pettibon,  for those of you who went to his lecture I guarentee this is peppier and more concise. This is a shorter show than usual this week as we recover from the Art Fair Madness. R