MCA Appoints Michael Darling as New Chief Curator

MCA Appoints Michael Darling as New Chief Curator

The MCA Chicago announced today that Michael Darling, modern and contemporary curator at the Seattle Art Museum, will be its new James W. Alsdorf Chief Curator. Darling will leave the Seattle Art Museum, where he’s worked since 2006, in July. Before that Darling...
Painters/Painting Panel Tonight at apexart!

Painters/Painting Panel Tonight at apexart!

Tonight – Wednesday April 28th at 6pm Bad at Sports’ own Tom Sanford moderates a multi-generational panel on painting. The discussion takes place at apexart in New York and is the second live event presented in conjunction with the exhibition Don’t...
Claire Pentecost, Compassion, and The Man In Black

Claire Pentecost, Compassion, and The Man In Black

I visited Claire Pentecost’s installation at threewalls over the weekend, and now all I want to do is listen to Johnny Cash. What the hell does one have to do with the other, you ask? In this, the latest example of what I have come to think of as art reviews...
Version Festival 10 Begins Tomorrow!

Version Festival 10 Begins Tomorrow!

Every year the folks behind the Version Festival present a capsule view of Chicago’s ever-evolving ecology through a series of events that emphasize the “Do-It-Together” spirit of the Chicago art scenes. Version Festival 10: Infrastructures and...