Chicago Art Map Launches!

Chicago Art Map Launches!

When I first moved to Chicago, shortly after the initial shock and depression wore off (KIDDING…just kidding…mostly), I set about exploring what Chicago’s gallery scene had to offer. Because so much exists off the proverbial beaten track, and I moved...
Jen Gillespie | Clowns

Jen Gillespie | Clowns

Bad at Sports is pleased to present our second guest blogger this week, Jen Gillespie. Jen is a local Chicago artist. She enjoys a thirsty mind with a taste for critical theory, diagrammatic oversimplification of narrative, heartstrings, and the uses for Lacanian...
Zombies Live at Antena Gallery Tonight

Zombies Live at Antena Gallery Tonight

Don’t forget that tonight is the opening for Zombies: A Mindless Affair at Antena Gallery. And get there early, because from 6:30 – 7:00pm there’ll be a discussion between author Scott Kenemore, artist Mindy Rose Schuartz and collaborators Teena...
Top 5? Well…not quite, but…

Top 5? Well…not quite, but…

OK, so here’s the deal for right now. Every week (well almost every week) I do a pick of shows that I think are most likely worth seeing (I am often wrong). The problem is that I sometimes don’t get to go to all the shows on my list (I generally see art on...
Mike Hoolboom’s MARK @ The Gene Siskel Film Center

Mike Hoolboom’s MARK @ The Gene Siskel Film Center

Presented by the Department of Film Video and New Media at SAIC, the Video Data Bank and the Gene Siskel Film Center, as part of their Conversations at the Edge series, Mark is a video portrait of Mark Karbusicky, created after his suicide in 2007. Director Mike...

Hot Topic Alert: Art Theory by Artists

There’s a great discussion going on right now at Edward Winkleman’s blog inspired by Winkleman’s post Thinking While Making Things, which was in turn inspired by an interview with Robert Storr conducted by The Art Newspaper, and an article written...