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This episode from the now found hard drive of Bad at Sports. Alex Gingrow! From a NADA NYC of the past we share this great chat about aesthetics, time, angst, and text art hosted but Caroline Burghardt and Duncan MacKenzie, live from inside a Claire Ashley! Big thanks to Martin for editing support.   Alex Gingrow – https://alexgingrow.com/home.html Caroline Burghardt – https://carolineburghardt.com/ Amanda Browder - https://www.amandabrowder.com/ NADA - https://www.newartdealers.org/ Martin Ortiz de Taranco - https://www.martinortizdetaranco.com/ Claire Ashley - https://clairehelenashley.com/  Image care of Alex Gingrow.

Today on Bad at Sports, live from inside EXPO Chicago, we try to get to the bottom of what the Monira Foundation is up to and what exactly it has to do with MANA Contemporary? So, we catch up with Anne Muntges, Director of Residencies and Grants Development. Then we are joined by the CEO of Apollo, Michael Miller and Chicago artist Sarah Raskey, and we look into the future of digital art delivery and what it would mean to have access to the world's greatest collections from your home. Efficiency   EXPO - Chicago https://www.expochicago.com/ Monira Foundation – https://monirafoundation.org/ MANA Contemporary – https://www.manacontemporary.com/ Anne Muntges – https://www.annemuntges.com/ Apollo – https://apollo.art/ Michael Miller - https://modernluxuryinteriors.com/apollo-digital-art-platform Sarah Raskey – https://www.sarahraskey.com/  

This week we check in with independent Curators International through Scott Vincent Campbell and Becky Nahom, and they break down the exciting curatorial connection event hosted through EXPO Chicago for the last five nine years. The conversation touches on the value of curators having an informal, yet art infused context in which to connect. All participants fail to recognize that the proper noun for a group of curators is a “hubris.” As in, “a hubris of curators approached the young artist.” This chat is a followed by LA based but Chicago drenched brilliant image maker John Knuth and we get down, full on EXPO style but with flies, as we tailgate our own booth and try to change the world one T-shirt at a time. EXPO Chicago in full effect.   EXPO - Chicago https://www.expochicago.com/ Independent Curators International - https://curatorsintl.org/ Scott Vincent Campbell - https://svcstudio.com/ Becky Nahom - https://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/arts/becky-nahom-of-halt-gallery-talks-curating-phoenixs-art-scene-and-moving-to-new-york-7286642 John Knuth - http://www.johnknuth.com/#/ Hollis Taggart - https://www.hollistaggart.com/ MOCA - https://www.moca.org/  Image care of John Knuth from https://www.hollistaggart.com/artists/36-john-knuth/  

This episode we return to the land of the lost episodes of Bad at Sports. As your friendly neighborhood art world podcasters return to action after a bit of a post EXPO meltdown, we are back in action. And in glorious preparation for NADA NYC we present two fantastic interviews we did in conjunction with NADA in Miami. Art world megaphone jaw dropper, Chloe Wise, breaks down art fashion and how we consume both and the ideas that trail in their wake. Kevin Arrow gets into what is lost as we turn away from Obsolete Media and the joy we can find in rediscovery. Amanda Browder, Tom Sanford, and Duncan MacKenzie split the hosting duties, live from inside a Claire Ashley! Big thanks to Martin for editing support.   Chloe Wise - https://www.chloewise.com/ Obsolete Media - https://miamirail.org/winter-2015/obsolete-media-miami/ Kevin Arrow - http://voyagemia.com/interview/meet-kevin-arrow/ Amanda Browder - https://www.amandabrowder.com/ NADA - https://www.newartdealers.org/ EXPO - Chicago https://www.expochicago.com/ Martin Ortiz de Taranco - https://www.martinortizdetaranco.com/ Tom Sanford - http://tomsanford.com/ Claire Ashley - https://clairehelenashley.com/ Image = Chloe Wise from Cultured Magazine https://www.culturedmag.com/article/2018/11/29/chloe-wise  

Jennifer Reeder is back! It's been a decade since our last conversation with the legendary Chicago filmmaker, artist and educator and she has been busy! Her newest feature, Perpetrator, features (the!) Alicia Silverstone and recently premiered at the Berlinale on its way back stateside. Together with Jesse and Brian, Jennifer gets into genre, the short as form and shape, her own personal journey through different mediums and more in a rolicking and fascinating conversation.    This episode also functions as an oblique invitation to our EXPO activities and activations. If you'll be at the fair this weekend, come visit our booth to see some exciting new realities!   https://thejenniferreeder.com/ https://www.wtfilms.fr/portfolio-item/perpetrator/ https://www.criterionchannel.com/short-films-by-jennifer-reeder https://www.expochicago.com/  

This week Amanda and Duncan return to the magic of the passed of Bad at Sports with a brilliant interview with Molly Zuckerman-Hartung! Zuckerman-Hartung kicked off this years set of Dialogoues at EXPO Chicago! And we return to a blissfully naive pre-pandemic artworld while physically celebrating the return to form of EXPO 2023! Editing support by Martin and we did this interview inside a Claire Ashley sculpture in NYC!   Molly Zuckerman-Hartung - https://corbettvsdempsey.com/artists/molly-zuckerman-hartung/ Amanda Browder - https://www.amandabrowder.com/ NADA - https://www.newartdealers.org/ EXPO - Chicago https://www.expochicago.com/ Martin Ortiz de Taranco - https://www.martinortizdetaranco.com/ Claire Ashley - https://clairehelenashley.com/

Amanda Browder and Duncan have a word with Mumbai based curator Sumesh Sharma! We chat about all things internationally challenging and the context for both international and American art. We cover why NADA is such an important international fair! All from inside a Claire Ashley in NYC. Editing support by Martin!   Sumesh Sharma - https://curatorsintl.org/about/collaborators/5399-sumesh-sharma Clark House Initiative - https://www.space118.com/mapping-residencies/clark-house-initiative/ Thanks Arterritory for the image - https://arterritory.com/en/visual_arts/interviews/22636-sumesh_sharma_in_riga_the_grandson_of_a_trade_merchant_on_diversity_and_exchange/ Amanda Browder - https://www.amandabrowder.com/ NADA - https://www.newartdealers.org/ EXPO - Chicago https://www.expochicago.com/ Martin Ortiz de Taranco - https://www.martinortizdetaranco.com/ Claire Ashley - https://clairehelenashley.com/

Once again Bad at Sports brings back a little audio that we recorded several years ago at NADA Miami which for no good reason never made it to air. We blame our day jobs but these would not have seen the light without the editing support of Martin Ortiz de Taranco!   This week we run into Chambliss Giobbi and circle around model building, portraits, the relationship between an image and its materials. Then we are treated to the driest wit in Chicago by Alex Chitty thanks to Patron Gallery! Thanks to NADA! Thanks to Claire Ashley who provided the work for our booth. And in a rare twist Dana Bassett and Tom Sanford, in the same show!   Chambliss Giobbi - https://www.chamblissgiobbi.com/ Alex Chitty - http://www.alexchitty.com/ Patron Gallery - https://patrongallery.com/ Amanda Browder - https://www.amandabrowder.com/ NADA - https://www.newartdealers.org/ EXPO - Chicago https://www.expochicago.com/ Martin Ortiz de Taranco - https://www.martinortizdetaranco.com/ Tom Sanford - http://tomsanford.com/ Claire Ashley - https://clairehelenashley.com/   Image: Alex Chitty They will bloom without you Elmhurst Art Museum -McCormick House

BmoreArt’s Editor-in-Chief Cara Ober joins Amanda Browder and Duncan MacKenzie in NYC at NADA NYC of yore. We express the pre-pandemic naive enthusiasm that will one day rule the world. We mine the depths of art publishing, art criticism, middle school sports, why Baltimore is a bad ass town, and why loving magazines will never be wrong!   Cara Ober - https://www.caraober.com/ BmoreArt - https://bmoreart.com/ Baltimore - https://baltimore.org/ Amanda Browder - https://www.amandabrowder.com/ NADA - https://www.newartdealers.org/ EXPO - Chicago https://www.expochicago.com/ National Museum of Women in the Arts - https://nmwa.org/blog/museum-shop/modern-makers-cara-ober/ And extra thanks to Martin Ortiz de Taranco - https://www.martinortizdetaranco.com/  

This episode we check in from New York City with two of New York's bright lights, Carrie Gundersdorf (Teaching this summer at fan favorite summer residency, Ox-Bow) and Chloë Bass! We checked in several years ago from a boozy and brilliant NADA NYC! We talk painting and drawing, the price of eggs insurance type, compare New York and Chicago, light beyond the light and the low fi, while getting intimate and bureaucratic with our practices. And we all become Artworldees!   NADA https://www.newartdealers.org/ EXPO Chicago https://www.expochicago.com/ Carrie Gundersdorf https://carriegundersdorf.com/ Chloë Bass https://www.chloebass.com/ Ox-Bow School of Art https://www.ox-bow.org/ Sharon Louden https://www.sharonlouden.com/ Tom Sanford http://tomsanford.com/ Price of Eggs https://www.cnbc.com/2023/03/03/egg-prices-increased-70percent-over-the-last-yearheres-why-.html Image: Carrie Gundersdorf  Betuline Cone 2022 colored pencil and watercolor on paper 23 x 22"

Episode 834, in which we creep back into the annals of our history and pull forth a conversation which had not seen the light before, Harold Mendez. Hero to many. We talk Whitney Biennial, Cuba, Tiffany's, and just exactly how the art world works. Thank You NADA!   https://www.newartdealers.org/ https://haroldmendez.com/ https://www.amandabrowder.com/ https://whitney.org/artists/17713 https://haroldmendez.com/filter/2017%3B-Tiffany-%26-Co. https://icamiami.org/exhibition/harold-mendez/   Thanks to https://tamarind.unm.edu For the image.

A few years ago, we put together so much content in the context of NADA art Fair Miami and New York that we have been sitting on a handful of great stuff (like for years)… And you are going to get to hear it all as we get prepared for Chicago’s EXPO this spring!   Kicking it all off this week Dana and Duncan chat with Miami legend, Agustina Woodgate.   We talk… Miami Water and Power RADIOEE The Whitney Biennial Hopscotch And so much more… Live from inside a Claire Ashley sculpture!   https://agustinawoodgate.com/ https://radioee.net/ https://www.newartdealers.org/ https://clairehelenashley.com/   PS. Dana makes a joke at the end that you have to hear, little does she know… no one really gets out. Once you are Bad at Sports, you just are.

Language lovers rejoice — the blab at sporkers transmit live to tape from the exhibition Glossolalia, hosted at ACRE (hosted by Drama Club) with our guests David Sprecher and Jeff Prokash. Their collaborative show, which performs a complicated material translation of an excerpt of a Franny Choi poem, is up through the weekend and includes a series of readings this Saturday (2/25/23) amidst and among their sculpture-phonemes. We talk about talking and think about thinking in what Zagat’s is calling “ə ˈrɪli ɡreɪt ˌɛksəˈbɪʃən ... wɜrθ ˈsikɪŋ ænd ˈsiɪŋ ɪf ju hir wɑt ɪts ˈseɪɪŋ θru ˈbiɪŋ sin …” and we’ll agree.      https://davidsprecher.org/home.html https://www.jeffprokash.com/ https://www.acreresidency.org/exhibition/glossolalia

This week Duncan sits down with Paul Gray in front of a live audience at Columbia College Chicago to talk about the history of Gray Gallery, the legacy of Richard Gray, how “the sausage gets made” in the art world, 60 years of supporting artists and what the next 60 years will look like, and Marcel Proust? Just another day of spectacular work for Gray Gallery, Coulumbia, and Bad at Sports.

This week we come at you live from Printed Matter in New York City with Christopher Sperandio of the Kartoon Kings. We talk about his recent flurry of publications, how the pandemic has impacted publishing and the art world, the potency of Instagram, and the failure of NFTs. Max Schumann Jumps in from the audience to talk about the mission of Printed Matter and query the separation between artist book and art publication, while challenging the techniques and labor used to generate Artist books. Brilliant painter Michael Cline grabs Duncan a couple of glasses of wine because if you are talking politics and art, there has to be at least one or two drinks.

Wowow! Around an arts and crampy table in an anonymous but lively third space in the Southern Loop of Chicago, some of our top minds and movers convene to chat about past, present and futures of Chicago DIY/DIT artist-organizing. Jesse, Duncan and eventually Ryan — slouches in their own rights — lead by following a disparate flow. A champagne bottle to share with 300 people! Leave a masterpiece, take a masterpiece! Should everything become a library? These notions and more are offered up in a freewheeling conversation that’s not to be missed.   

This week Brian and Duncan muse about color with design duo Luftwerk. The Chicago-based collaborative Petra Bachmaier & Sean Gallero entrance us into their series of sculptural light installations using botanical pigments and dynamic lights currently on view at the Chicago Cultural Center.

This week Bad at Sports catches up with Wisconsin’s pride, the Wormfarm Institute, with Jay Salinas. We learn more about a long running experiment in arts funding between the fine states of Wisconsin and Minneapolis. We learn about how sustainable agriculture and contemporary art have found an unusual marriage, and take a D-Tour. Then we open the door two adventure and the future of contemporary placemaking, and artist run endeavors with Nicholas Wylie and Brandon Alvendia, who speculate on the future of the MdW fair and the new infrastructure we have been building together to strengthen the future of Midwestern art making. Image of a work by Brenda Baker , photograph by Eric Bailles from the Wormfarm Institute, link below. https://www.wormfarminstitute.org/ https://www.mdwfair.com/ https://chicagolx.org/community/members/nicholas-wylie-public-media-institute https://www.alvendia.net/

Live from our tailgate at the MdW fair we bring you part two of a series we are doing with the organizing members of the MdW and a wrap up conversation that looks at the current state of arts organizing. But this week we have Confluence Studio, Duaba Unenra and Sam Gould, then are joined by Amy Kligman of the Charlotte Street Foundation. We learn about contemporary policing practice in MN and how residents mobilize through art and stories. Then we shift over to Kansas City MO and touch the other side of artist run culture through a 25 year old entrenched arts org. Good times had by all!   https://confluence-studio.org/ https://www.mdwfair.com/atlas https://charlottestreet.org/

Here we are here we are finishing out our roundup with the end of our “spot check” in Calgary Alberta, Canada, and we close out with the Western Canadian performance art legend Rita McKeough.   Rita McKeough is an installation and performance artist whose practice is based in Calgary. Her work incorporates audio, electronics and mechanical performing objects. Since the late 70s, McKeough has been committed to creating thoughtful and fully immersive spaces that push and unbalance our underlying assumptions which we use to navigate our everyday lives. She uses interactive technologies to represent natural interdependencies and to create weave together her musical and artistic practices. McKeough work’ are formerly rooted in a long established feminist perspective, and she brings that lense to content that deals with the environmental impacts of land development and industrial extraction. Her’s is the voice of agency and articulates the forces of resistance mobilized by the natural world.   Thanks again to the Esker Foundation, all the friends we made in Calgary, and especially Naomi Potter!   https://www.ritamckeough.com/ https://eskerfoundation.com/ https://www.truck.ca/shop/rita-mckeough-works