Bad at Sports

Today we drop down in Miami and chat NFTs with John Lee , Tom Sanford , and technologist Amol. We also reveal that we are rolling with the mysterious graffiti artist Snoeman .

On this week's Jess(i)e-fest, Jessie Mott joins Jesse and non-Jess(i)e Ryan in the studio to talk about her upcoming exhibition at the Epiphany Center for the Arts , Like Queer Animals:We Hold Your Gaze , a collaboration with queer scholar Chanal Nadeau. We yak about the origins of Mott's aberrant animals, in all of their forms, including paintings, publications and animations. Take a listen on th...

On this pod's weekcast  Iris Bernblum  joins Brian and Ryan for an unadorned conversation about her current studio practice. Bernblum's work explores an animalic kinship, navigating a longing for the unknowable natural world. The pair conjures a sensual environment by imbuing the space with scent, sound, and lush color. Her cross disciplinary practice includes watercolors, video and sculpture spea...

This week Bad at Sports sees the return of two legends.    Tony Fitzpatrick joins us to talk about his last museum show ever "the Jesus of Western Avenue" at the Cleve Carney Museum. And if that weren't enough Richard Holland takes a break from his retirement to rejoin the show? We are also joined by Justin Witte, the curator and director of the Cleve Carney Museum!   https://www.theccma.org/ http...

This week Jesse Malmed and Duncan MacKenzie catch up with Zach Cahill and try to understand what compels us about unicorns, death, flowers, and pentagrams as we celebrate and query the thinking behind "Unicorn Death Road Trip Buddy Movie."   https://zacharycahill.com/ home.html https://www.quimbys.com/ https://www.grahamcrackers. com/ https://www.firstaidcomics. com/   Names dropped... https://inv...

This week Bad at Sports Center checks in from a very rainy Terrain Biennial at Overton Elementary. We catch up with Kristin McWharter about sports and cheerleading then carry the conversation to Lauren Leving and Michael Paul Lopez aka. Mike Lopez about an exhibition at Material. Certified fresh.   https://terrainexhibitions. org/ https://kristinmcwharter.com/ https://materialexhibitions. com/home...

Live from the block party for the 2021 Terrain Biennial with guests Richard, Medina, Sadie Woods, DJ Gino, Ahmed Ozsever... And Ryan Peter Miller? What better way to honor our friend Sabina Ott!   http://www.richardmedina.com/ paintings.html http://www.sadiewoods.com/ https://www.facebook.com/ djgino.it/ https://www.acprintprojects. net/about  

Should we be more depressed about accelerating climate change or optimistic for human potential in a time of crisis? This week Jesse and Brian talk through the surprising artworks featured in Earthly Observatory with curators Giovanni Aloi and Andrew S. Yang.

Today on Bad at Sportscenter, Jesse and Ryan are joined by some of the stars that form the constellation that post- latin-loqui  astroscholars are calling  This Is What We Know So Far , an exhibition open now at Chicago Art Department: artists Liz McCarthy, Sara Condo, Leo Kaplan and curator Erin Nixon. Along with Chicago faves Mike Lopez and Ben Driggs, they've mounted a colorful and joutous show...

This week we check in on Tiger Strikes Asteroid with curators Teresa Silva and Holly Cahill. we examine collective art action, the network, Mana contemporary art space, and  the half 46 person group show "It Feels Like The First Time."   https://www.artsy.net/show/ mana-contemporary-tiger- strikes-asteroid-it-feels- like-the-first-time?sort= partner_show_position https://www. tigerstrikesasteroid....

This week we continue our summer of comic investigation with Seitu Hayden. Chicago illustrator extraordinaire and long time indie comic supporter. We talk about his 50 years in the independent publishing spaces, black comics, and some of the bright lights that made the scene happen. Hayden's works were included in the MCA's  Chicago Comics:1960 to Now  and the book " It's Life as I See it: Black C...

  …meanwhile, in the least mysterious city on the planet (apparently Chicago), Duncan and Ryan panel with the overmodest Artist/Cartoonist Chris Ware and Chicago's cultural historian emeritus Tim Samuelson about the storied origins of the Chicago comic scene. In this harrowing episode our protagonists discuss a triumvirate of collaborative projects: the Chicago Cultural Center's,  "Chicago: Where...

This week we are joined by the great cartoonist and brilliant artist Jessica Campbell. Campbell's cartoons and relief sculptures are on view at  Chicago's MCA   as part of Comics in Chicago: 1960s to Now. She also has an upcoming exhibition at  Western Exhibitions  Gallery in Chicago and a graphic novel about to drop from  Drawn & Quarterly , "Rave."

This week Bad @ Sports Center is winnowed down to skeleton crew, with Ryan Peter Miller chewing the fat with the ever vital  Diana Guerrero-Maciá . Fresh from receiving a  John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship in Fine Arts , Guerrero-Maciá discusses her studio practice which includes slow-craft processes in painting, textiles, drawing, print, and sculptural objects. With new work recently completed for...

This week Bad at Sports attempts to get to the bottom of whether foundation.app is a marketplace, a platform, or a cultural hall. Dana Bassett and Duncan MacKenzie are joined by Kayvon Tehranian, CEO and Lindsay Howard, Head of Community who are lighting our way towards how artists can get paid for their content while creating a new way to sell and consume art works, and just maybe, building a new...

In what feels like a throwback episode Ryan and Duncan record IRL with Holly Holmes and Tom Burtonwood. We explore the legacy of Sabina Ott, the future for the Terrain Biennial and its 2021 iteration, then we talk through what is going on in their studios and focus around their exploration of the NFT artwork space. https://terrainexhibitions.org/ https://tomburtonwood.com/home.html https://hollyho...

This week on the B@S, Stella Brown and Nick Wylie join Jesse and Brian to talk about Buddy — the new artist-run shop/gallery/venue at the Chicago Cultural Center that features works and products by more than 220 artists — and Co-Prosperity Catskill — the new exhibition space in the Hudson Valley. These two new projects from the Public Media Institute , whose many many include WLPN, Lumpen Magazine...

On today's episode Dana and Ryan join painter Christina Quarles [in person!] to discuss her eponymous exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago. We talk painting (of course), and discuss pandemic cancellations and inspirations. We hope you enjoy the sound of face-to-face conversation and Christina's giggles as much as we enjoyed recording them.  MCA Christina Quarles

This week we can catch up with the preeminent American Art Critic, Ben Davis from Art Net and talk about NFTs and whether this really is the future the hype demands, or whether this is a long con grift.   Ben Davis -  http://www.benadavis.com/ Art Net -  https://news.artnet.com/ Nifty Gateway -  https://niftygateway.com/ Foundation. App -  https://foundation.app/ Beeple - https://www.beeple-crap.c...

This week we returned with Carrie Secrist and the Carrie Secrist Gallery (CSG.) A long time pillar of Chicago's south loop CSG began a significant shift and radically changed how they were doing exhibitions as the pandemic was just kicking off. We check in with the gallery's founder to learn about this adventure and how it has impacted gallery artists and informing the way the gallery will work. W...

On this harrowing episode of Bad at SportsCenter, we talk with photographer Stephanie Burke. Her ongoing series of photographs is a visual exploration of lost opportunities at Parks College. Founded in 1927 by Oliver "Lafe" Parks, Parks College was a nexus of aviation development throughout the 20th century. When the Parks College program was moved to SLU in 1997, the Cahokia Il campus was left em...

Image c/o the Renaissance Society of Haig Aivazian's "All of the Lights"   In a wide ranging discussion with Haig Aivazian we start with the exhibition at Chicago's Renaissance Society and we reach toward the history of fire, policing, data visualization, sports and art, and why artists should not be afraid of making propaganda!   https://renaissancesociety.org/exhibitions/539/haig-aivazian-all-of...

This week Ryan and  Brian  enter the dark room with Paul Mpagi Sepuya. The conversation floats along the inseparability of images and subcultures, the ritual of working an image in an analog dark room, and seeing exactly what is happening in the moment. 

On today's episode of Bad at Sports Center, Dana and Duncan have the distinct pleasure of speaking with Naomi Beckwith, the current Museum of Contemporary Art Manilow Senior Curator and incoming Deputy Director and Jennifer and David Stockman Chief Curator of New York's Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. We discuss Beckwith's curatorial style, vision for her new position and and her recent work on the...

  This week  Dana  and Jesse are joined "in the studio" by Chicago's native sun and brilliant author, Mairead Case. Case joins us on the show to discuss her latest novel,  Tiny , and a slew of other topics ranging from grief to the dance floor and how those two are not as far apart as you might think.    You can find more information about Mairead and  Tiny  at the following websites:  www.feather...