Episode 905: The REAL Joey Orr!
Live from the tailgate lounge at Chicago Architectural Biennial 6’s booth at Expo Chicago, Duncan and Ryan welcome Joey Orr, the newly appointed Deputy Director and Chief Curator of the MCA Chicago. In this densely brilliant and surprisingly hilarious conversation, Orr discusses what it means to steer a contemporary art institution in an era of deep social complexity, political polarization, and shifting museum ethics.
TOP V. WEEKEND PICKS (6/5-6/11)
1. Jessica Zawadowicz and Yaismel Alba Garib: There’s a box they don’t tell you about June 6, 6-10PM Patient Info: 902 N Western Ave 2. Caitlyn Min-ji Au: Panda June 7, 3-8PM SHANGHAI SEMINARY: 3262 S Morgan St 3. José A Rosa: Dulce Sueño June 6, 6PM El...
Episode 904: Caitlin McGurk and Brian Baynes
Broadcast live from Rice University (yes, in Houston), this episode of Bad at Sports brings together the curator of comics and cartoon art at the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library and Museum, Caitlin McGurk, and the Richmond-based zine publisher and comics obsessive behind Bubbles Fanzine, Brian Baynes.
Episode 903: Jake Nickell & Lance Curran of Threadless
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This week on Bad at Sports, Duncan MacKenzie and Ryan Peter Miller cruise their way into a murder mansion fever dream with Jake Nickell and Lance Curran, two of the minds behind Threadless—the Chicago-based t-shirt empire that helped invent crowdsourced artwear before we’d marketed terms like “creator economy” or “drop ship.”
Episode 902: David Schilter and Pedro Vieira de Moura
Recorded live at the Comics Without Borders / Sans Frontières gathering at Rice University, this episode dives deep into international comics publishing, aesthetic risk-taking, and how underground networks drive a truly global comics culture.
Episode 901: Florencia Rodriguez and CAB 6
In this episode, we sit down with architect, editor, and curator Florencia Rodriguez, Artistic Director of the Chicago Architecture Biennial (CAB) 6. We dig into the ideas shaping this year’s edition—titled “Shift: Architecture in Times of Radical Change”—and her approach to curating a biennial that centers transformation, public space, and critical imagination.
Episode 900: Robert Pruitt
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For our milestone 900th episode, we headed to Houston and sat down with the brilliant Robert Pruitt, live at the Cats Conference: Comics Sans Frontières—a gathering of artists, thinkers, and cultural workers reshaping the future of comics, narrative, and speculative visual worlds.
Sub-Rural #49, Intuit Art Museum Redux
Debra Kerr, Director of Chicago’s newly christened “Intuit Art Museum,” contends enthusiastically that “art can be made anywhere by anyone.” If so, it raises a question about criteria for collecting and exhibiting. Surely there are formal patterns and content...
TOP V. WEEKEND PICKS (5/29-6/4)
1. Devontez Cox: The Logan Square Project May 30, 6-9PM Point Blank: 3317 W Fullerton Ave Curated by Samiah Fulcher and Isaiah Lee 2. Michael Bever: Kunstausstellung: A Solo Art Show June 1, 11AM-7PM Lincoln Square Barber Shop Gallery: 2415 W Lawrence Ave...
TOP V. WEEKEND PICKS (5/22-5/28)
1. Lola Ayisha Ogbara: Marked May 22, 6-9PM Tala: 1644 W Chicago Ave 2. C. C. Ann Chen: Whereabouts May 24, 6-8PM Tiger Strikes Asteroid Chicago: 2233 S Throop St 3. Caroline David: Red May 24, 5-8PM Prairie: 2055 W Cermak Rd 4. Tom Torluemke:...
TOP V. WEEKEND PICKS (5/15-5/21)
1. Grishma Shah: Dissonance May 16, 7-9PM Bridgeport Art Center: 1200 W 35th St 2. Amira Diaw: I too pass from the night May 17, 6-8PM Hardboiled: DM For Address 3. Maxwell Volkman & Alex Adkinson: The River Sweats with Oil and Tar May 17, 6-9PM...
TOP V. WEEKEND PICKS (5/8-5/14)
1. Eshan Rafi: my father’s imagination May 8, 7PM Roman Susan: 1224 W Loyola Ave 2. Lauren Iacoponi and Millicent Kennedy: All Houses Are Haunted May 9, 6-9PM Purple Window Gallery: 2233 S Throop St, Unit 845 3. Tatiana Jackson: In the Flow of Bloom May...
Sub-Rural #49, Caroline Kent
Art language and its framing is an asymmetric consolidation between principal hemispheric archives and their constituent artists and crafters. Place introduces alternative possibilities for visual fluency and it sanctions regional myths, schedules, and texts. Official...
TOP V. WEEKEND PICKS (5/1-5/7)
1.Chang-Ching Su: A Dream Cast in Dormancy (Even Shadows Glow in the Dark) May 3, 5-8PM Murmuration: 2846 W North Ave 2. How to See in the Dark May 2, 7-10PM Co-prosperity Sphere: 3219 S Morgan St Work by: Alberto Ortega Trejo, Dakota Gearhart, Eva Davidova,...
TOP V FROM EXPO CHICAGO 2025
Welcome to this week’s TOP V from EXPO CHICAGO at Navy Pier. Also, don’t forget to check out our TOP V from BARELY FAIR and this week’s TOP V for a selection of provocative programs being exhibited in spaces both large and small around Chicago this weekend. 1. Claire...
TOP V. WEEKEND PICKS (4/24-4/30)
1. Amanda Rice: From Sunlight to Extinction April 25, 7-8PM 4th Ward Project Space: 5338 S Kimbark Ave 2. Irene Wa.: where i seek i find April 27, 5-8PM .liminal.projects.: DM for address 3. Anaïs Morales and Dom Smith: Fly by Night April 26, 7-9PM...