Blog Archive
2010: Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
2009: Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
2008: Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
2007: Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
2006: Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
2005: Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
March 2010
- The Post Family Presents “Get It Together Again” at Chicago Tourism Center Gallery
- Gagosian’s Upcoming Ed Paschke Exhibition Is Not About Jeff Koons.
- Help Amanda Browder and North Brooklyn Public Art Coalition Make ‘Future Phenomena’!
- Tuesday’s Video Pick | Artist’s Soap Box Derby
- VAP at SAIC | Doris Salcedo
- Video | Stefania Rotolo
- Top 5 Picks!
- Wednesday Clips 3-9-10
- 2-Day Chicago Comics Symposium Starts Tomorrow – Duncan and Richard Moderate Thursday’s Panel
- Devin King in Conversation with Stephen Lapthisophon
- Greg Stimac, Susan Giles, and a “secret” Theaster Gates show all closing soon….
- ‘Art of the Steal’ Plays at Block Cinema This Wednesday
- Bad at Sports Needs YOUR Questions!
- Tuesday’s Video Pick | Stanley Kubrick
- European Union Film Festival | Modus Operandi
- Ghosts of Presidents Past
- Wednesday Clips 3/3/10
- Top 5 Picks! (3/5-3/7)
- Exhibition Opportunity for Student Curators
- Photos from the Battleship Conversation at Winkleman Gallery, NYC
- Whitney Biennial Roundups
- Jeff Koons Has a Bad Case of ‘Radical Scopophilia’
- Tuesday’s Video Pick | Andy Bruntel
February 2010
- Battleship Throw-Down – #Class @ Winkleman Gallery – Sunday!
- A Historical Look at Olympic Pictograms
- Underfull Table Cloth by Kristine Bjaadal
- Off-Topic | Randall Szott
- Top 5 Weekend Picks! (2/26 & 2/27)
- Tuesday’s Video Pick | Wednesday Edition
- Art Practical on SFMOMA Website
- Doug Aitken Lectures at SAIC Tonight!
- Come see Bad at Sports at FAIR: A Two-Day Local Maker and Publisher Fair
- Bad at Sports Needs You!
- Kathleen Hannah Interview on GRITtv
- Andreas Fischer’s “Ghost Town” at HPAC and Gahlberg Gallery
- Bad at Sports Exhibition at Apexart!
- Dubai Like You Have Never Seen It Before
- Top 5 Weekend Picks
- Are We All Just A Giant Hologram?
- Post-Hysterical: Timeline, Comics and a Plurogenic View of Art History
- Tuesday’s Video Pick | Sophia Peer
- Interview | Amy Beste
- AfriCOBRA and the Chicago Black Arts Movement
- Duncan MacKenzie’s 10 Questions Towards Enlightenment
- Review: Bless 10 Years of Themelessness DVD
- Rant of the Week: Roberta Smith Has the Post-Minimal Blahs
- We Feel Fine / Lovelines
- Review: The Object of Nostalgia at A+D Gallery
- Art, Treasure Hunts, The Tribune & Why I Feel Like Michael J Fox
- Red Dot Art Fair Reboots NYC Fair
- Off-Topic | Stephanie Burke
- The Biggest Top 5 You’ve Ever Seen!
- “The Object of Nostalgia” at CAA and Columbia College A+D Gallery
- Chicago Galleries Host Four-Part Painting Extravaganza in Conjunction with CAA
- See Duncan and Richard at CAA on Friday!
- College Art Association Quantifies the Economic Downturn
- How to Give a Lawyer a Heart-Attack
- Tuesday’s Video Pick| Dara Birnbaum
- Rant of the Week: Art Critics Suck Edition
- Interview | Aspen Mays
- Hamza Walker Wins $100,000 Ordway Prize
- Interview with Adam Ekberg
- Call for Proposals | Version 10 Infrastructures and Territories
- The Art of the Steal Documentary
- Tuesday’s Video pick | RuPaul
- Saya Woolfalk Lectures Tuesday at SAIC
January 2010
- Alison Ruttan’s “Four Year War”
- Top 5 Weekend Picks!
- Economic Showdown & Man vs Machine All in One Day
- Typeface
- Tuesday’s Video Pick | Sharon Hayes
- Los Angeles County Museum of Art | Reading Room
- A Q & A with Richard Rezac
- Contemporary Art, Collected Collectively
- Top 5 Weekend Picks!
- Off-Topic | Molly Schafer and Jenny Kendler
- Gene Siskel Film Center | Mine
- PUBLIC NOTICES.
- Hot Topic Alert: Granting New Ph.D.’s in a Job Market That Sucks
- Top 5 Picks (1/15 & 1/16)
- L.A. Museum Professionals Weigh In On Deitch as New MOCA Head
- Tuesday’s Video Pick | Something’s Got A Hold On Me
- The Strange Disappearance of the Judith Rothschild Foundation
- An American Journey: In Robert Frank’s Footsteps
- Cloth Windows and Concrete Screen Doors: Two Robert Overby Sculptures On View in Chicago
- Tuesday’s Video Pick | French Star Wars
- Interview with Edra Soto: Heaven, Hell and ‘the Jesus of Dogs’
- The Developing LA-MOCA/Deitch Controversy
- Proximity Magazine Names BaS “Best Website for Local Arts Coverage”
- Top 10 Picks…
- Off-Topic | Alicia Eler
- Culture Worker or Slacker? You Decide….
- Art Work Newspaper Looks at Economy’s Impact on Cultural Production
- Watch Mat Collishaw Discuss “Hysteria” at Freud Museum
- BOMB’s Series on the State of Abstraction Today
- I want my “Team Tavi” T-Shirt NOW!
- The Minimum Wage Machine
- Black Rain by Semiconductor
- Anna Shteynshleyger at The Renaissance Society
- Bad at Sports: One Thousand Posts Strong & Still Going
December 2009
- New Years Eve Music Suggestions Video
- Infosthetics.com Celebrates 5 Years by Displaying all their Posts Aesthetically On One Page
- Off-Topic | Jeriah Hildwine
- Posting Notice
- Hobo Clown by Allison Schulnik
- Tuesday’s Video Pick | Youtube Videos
- Apply for the 12th Annual Chicago Art Open
- The Domestic Art Space: Tales from Two Cities
- 70 Minute Movie Review with Bonus Minutes….. minus Mike Benedetto
- Debut Novel By BaS’s Own Terri Griffith “So Much Better” On Sale Now!
- Hot Topic Alert: Do Art Bloggers Deserve “More Love”?
- REVIEW: Apartamento Magazine
- Obscure Records | Jan Steele / John Cage
- Photographer Larry Sultan Dies at 63
- Liz Nielsen on Chicago Apartment Galleries
- 2010 Whitney Biennial Artists Announced
- Rebus Issue # 4 and Matthew Bowman
- On the matter of public space: or my apartment gallery is an arctic explorer
- Eric May of Roots and Culture on Chicago’s Apartment Galleries
- Some Notes on Hosting
- Jaime Groetsema of the Green Bicycle Organization on Chicago Apartment Galleries
- Erik Wenzel on the State of the Chicago Apartment Gallery
- Actor James Franco Uses “General Hospital” as Platform for Performance Art
- Tuesday’s Video Pick | The Plague Song
- Lucia Fabio on Chicago Apartment Galleries
- FLAT’s EC Brown on Chicago’s Domestic/Apartment Gallery Spaces
- Bad at Sports Giveaway | Traveling with Yoshitomo Nara
- On Sundrun
- Tuesday’s Video Pick | Emily Lacy’s Temples of the Mind at LACMA
- Ho Ho Ho Holiday Train!!!
- FLAT’s “Untitled Circus”: Popcorn, Elephants, and Critical Musings on Chicago’s Apartment Gallery Scene
- I feel better already, or at least I think I do @ GOLDEN
- LIVE at NADA 2009 with TShirts
- Top 5: 12/4 to 12/6
- Tuesday’s Video Pick | Siggi Eggertsson’s Supernova
- Lecture | Emory Douglas
- Yayoi Kasuma | I Love Me
- How Much Humanity in Laughter: Some Final Thoughts on the Chicago Humanities Festival
- Chicago Curators’ “Performance Anxiety” on Souvenirs from the Earth TV
- Off-Topic | Stacia Yeapanis
November 2009
- Artist Deb Sokolow’s Project with Chicago Public Schools In Today’s Tribune
- Top…uhh…1
- Posting Notice
- What’s Bluer Than Blue?
- Tuesday’s Video Pick | 11.24.09
- Museum Exhibitions and The Book
- Top 5 Picks (11/20-11/22)
- e-flux/journal #10
- Obituary | Jeanne-Claude
- Review: “Spirit” by Henry Roy
- Is the $100,000 Ordway Prize Too Much?
- Select Media Festival 8 | Super Bad Ass Starts Tomorrow!
- Gene Siskel Film Center | Eye of the Sandman
- Meeting Beatrice Fisher a Little Too Late: In Memoriam
- Tom Sanford’s “Assassination of Dimebag Darrell” Painting Angers Metal Community
- Tuesday’s Video Pick | Dock Ellis & the LSD No No
- Beautiful Wearable Dress Has Over 24,000 LEDs
- Off-Topic | Shawnee Barton
- Art Critics Can Have Beautiful Websites Too
- Ordway Prize Candidates Announced
- Jeff Koons to Install Work This Month in CAT Scan Room of Chicago’s Advocate Children’s Hospital
- Tuesday’s Video Pick | The Powers of Ten
- The Yes Men on LUMPEN TLVSN
- Damien James on the Chicago Humanities Festival
- Curatorial Profession Among Worst Paid, Most Stressful.
- The Beatles Never Broke Up, Listen To Secret Recordings [hoax but still great]
- 20 iPod Touches Merged Into One Display
- The Dubai Fountain Unveiled After Over A Year of Work & $218 Million USD
- Dan Graham | Beyond
- Nate Powell’s PLEASE RELEASE
- Food Orgies Are NY Art World’s Latest Trend
- Hot Topic Alert: Creative Time’s “Revolutions in Public Practice”
- What’s in Your Library?
- Best Halloween Costume Idea of 2009 Goes To
- The Parlor | Jac Jemc Tomorrow Night
- Photo Essay Documents the Last Days of Gourmet Magazine
- Tuesday’s Video Pick | 11.3.09
- It’s Color Theory, Charlie Brown!
- MCA Spoils Own Game of ‘Hide and Seek’
- Bad at Sports Site Redesign
- Triangle Neighbors’ 13th Annual 2009 North Halsted Halloween Parade
October 2009
- Where the
Wild Things AreDirty Hipsters Are! - Duncan MacKenzie and Lori Waxman on Eight Forty-Eight
- Top 3 – Halloweenie
- Liam Gillick: MCA, How Are You Going to Behave? A Kitchen Cat Speaks, Kafka
- Top three Halloween Picks
- DOUBLE FANTASY @ Noble and Superior Projects
- Acclaimed Photographer Roy DeCarava dies at 89
- UIUC’s I Space Gallery To Close.
- “Lucía, Luis and the Wolf”
- The Yes Men in Chicago
- Tuesday’s Video Pick | 10.27.09
- Nancy Spero and Political Nostalgia
- Public Art in Los Angeles Gets Crapped On, Too
- In 1 More Day Everything Changes
- In 5 Days Everything Changes
- In 7 Days Everything Changes
- Chicago Art Map Launches!
- Zombies Live at Antena Gallery Tonight
- Jen Gillespie | Clowns
- Top 5? Well…not quite, but…
- Mike Hoolboom’s MARK @ The Gene Siskel Film Center
- Hot Topic Alert: Art Theory by Artists
- Curate This! Offers Latest Contest Model for Contemporary Art Exhibitions
- Chicago Humanities Festival Preview
- The Art World Mourns Nancy Spero
- Elimination of Park District Arts Program Begs Further Questions
- Take the ‘Donald Judd, or Cheap Furniture?’ Quiz
- Nancy Spero Dies at Age 83
- Does the “Curation of Inspiration” Signal the Death of the Object?
- They Shoot Porn Stars, Yes They Do
- Online Catalogue for William Powhida’s L.A. Show Now Available
- Friday’s Twitter Roundup | 10.16.09
- Top 5: 10/16-10/17
- Media Preview: Liam Gillick and Jeremy Deller @ the MCA
- Brueghel Painting May Shed New Light on Early History of the Telescope
- Tuesday’s Video pick| Abstraction in Photography
- Winner of the Chicago Public Library “Sound Off” Music Contest Announced
- BAS Halloween Watch: See Frankenstein Performed by The Hypocrites at the MCA
- Friday’s Twitter Roundup | 10.9.09
- Sh*tload of (Family) Money Awarded to Winners of the Inaugural “ArtPrize”
- The Providence Effect
- Martine Syms | HIGHLIGHTS / NY ART BOOK FAIR
- How Hard Is It To Make A Piano Speak Like A Human? Very.
- Top 5 Picks 10/9-10/11
- Horror Photographs by Joshua Hoffline
- NYC Mayor’s office announces new initiative that will provide nonprofit cultural groups with access to gallery and theater space in city-owned buildings and parks.
- Everyone’s a Curator.
- BAS Gossip Break: Is Andres Serrano First Guest on Bravo’s Upcoming “Untitled Artist Project”?
- Tuesday’s Video Pick | Variations V
- Forget the Olympics. What the Second City Really Needs is First-Class Art News
- Friday’s Twitter Roundup | 10.2.09
- Top 5: 10/2, 10/3 & 10/4
- Tate Modern Removes Nude Brooke Shields Prince Photo After Police Visit
September 2009
- Wednesday Clips 9/30/09
- Recap | 16th Annual Chicago Underground Film Festival
- Is Buckminster Fuller the Future of Coke?
- Music File Sharing Debate Creates Music?
- Friday’s Twitter Roundup | 9.25.09
- MythBusters Build a 1100-Barrel Paintball Gun to Paint the Mona Lisa in One Shot
- Colombian Pop Artist Bon Yurt Organizes Painball Group To Target Canvas
- Four 35ft Interactive Installation Art Screens Adorn Microsoft Campus
- Oversize Art, How Does It Fit In A Undersize Economy?
- Conrad Bakker’s Untitled Project: eBAY/DEPRESSION GLASS
- Tuesday’s Video Pick | Jesus Christ Superstar
- Midweek Clips 9/23/09
- Gene Siskel Film Center | What’s the Matter with Kansas?
- Entire City Rendered In 3D Using Nothing But Flickr Photos
- Friday’s Twitter Roundup | 9.18.08
- Artist Tania Bruguera Causes Controversy With “Cocaine Performance”
- Doug Ischar’s Marginal Waters @ GOLDEN
- Stone Summer Theory Institute Starts This Sunday
- Top 5 for 9/18-9/20
- Chicago Public Library “Sound Off” Deadline Approaching
- A Touchless Rube Goldberg Performance Art Piece
- Watch the Trailer for Shirin Neshat’s First Feature Film “Women Without Men”
- Paul Nudd vs. The North Carolina Sewer Monster
- Wednesday Clips 9/16/09
- Teausday’s Video Pick | Michael Moschen – Conceptual Contact Juggling
- VAP at SAIC | Narelle Jubelin
- Short Takes on the New Fall Shows: West Loop Edition
- Buying Young: 10 Reasons to Start Collecting Art When You’re, Like, in Your Early Twenties.
- Whitney Tassie | moniquemeloche’s New Space
- Top 6 for September 11th 2009
- My Bloody Wedding
- Wednesday Clips 9/9/09
- Mall Squatters, Word Hijackers and Life Hackers at Gallery 400
- AREA Chicago’s Got Money Issues: It Needs Money for its Next Issue
- Tuesday’s Video Pick | Two short Documentaries Worth Checking Out
- Posting Notice
- Friday’s Twitter Roundup 9.4.09
- U900 | Adorable Japanese Ukulele Band
- Pardon me, I’m just not feeling like myself today @ barbara&barbara
- Wednesday Clips 9/2/2009
- Will I Space Close from Lack of Funds?
- Tuesday’s Video Pick | Kara Walker
- Granta Magazine | Chicago Issue
- Bad at Sports’ Fall Art Picks
August 2009
- Chicago in a Soap Bubble
- Hello Everyone, I am Mona Lisa, and It’s Nice to Meet You!
- Verge Art Fair to Launch in Miami, Dec. 3-6
- iPhone App Review: Artnear
- Taking What Works In One World: War Photography Equipment
- A Brief History of Bad at Sports on Art Talk Chicago
- How much are the Cannes Gold Lions worth?
- Top 5 (8/28-8/30)
- Friday’s Twitter Roundup
- Artists Attempt to Explain Their Art to Their Parents
- Guest Hosting Cindy Sherman
- Happy Four Year Anniversary, Bad At Sports!
- Miles Fisher – This Must Be The Place: Music Video NSFW
- Personas: Visualizing Your Digital Footprint
- Chicago Galleries Toughing Out Recession, See Hope in Upcoming Season
- Twitch Flicks for the Twitter Generation
- Friday’s Twitter Roundup
- Participate in a National Survey on Artists and Economic Recession
- All the Naked Spelunking You Can Handle
- Jill Frank: Good at Jogging
- Tirtza Even and Toby Millman Explore Shifting Views of Occupation at Spoke
- UCLA’s Arts Library Threatened With Closure
- Kathryn Born Asks Do Republicans Suck At Art or Just Too Busy Stealing to Care?
- Wednesday Clips for 8/19/09
- Tuesday’s Video Pick
- Wherefore Art Thou, Sound Art?
- The Disturbing Truth about Obama’s “Death Panels”
- Arts Organizations Call on Congress to Recognize Artists in Health Care Debate
- Laura Harper Leaves Chicago Artists Coalition
- Fridays Twitter Roundup
- Mark Your Calenders | Beyond Walls: Nontraditional Ways of Making a Living as an Artist
- “Bubble” breaks for Cleveland Museum of Art, which lays off 5% of staff
- Top…3?
- The International Museum of Surgical Science
- My water just broke. Hang on–gotta Tweet that!
- Hubble’s Ultra Deep Field Now in 3D
- Dallas Cowboys Launch New Contemporary Art Program
- All Hail the Crayon King!
- All the Great Operas in 10 Minutes
- Tuesday’s Video Pick
- Shepard Fairey Gives His Thoughts on Obama “Joker” Poster
- Fire destroys one of the country’s largest private collection of African and African-American art
- Stills from a “Lost” Chicago Movie
- Trippy Vintage TWA Posters by David Klein
- A New Twist on Deb Sokolow’s “The Way in Which Things Operate”
- Art Newspaper Takes a Look Inside the Jeff Koons Studio & 120 Assistants
- Friday’s Twitter Roundup
- Devastation and Space @ Eel Space
- LA Times looks into Obama Joker Face Image Origin or Lack There Of
- A short note on Elizabeth Smith’s MCA departure
- Bronzeville’s Sasaki and Collins Parks and Landscapes Razed at Gropius-designed Michael Reese Hopsital; Gropius Coalition in Chicago Warns More May Come
- Scott Projects First International Show, Opens Saturday
- Tuesday’s Video Pick
- Going Apesh*t with Alison Ruttan
- Michelle Grabner and Brad Killam Launch “The Great Poor Farm Experiment”
- Sorry I Can’t Cry For Annie Leibovitz
July 2009
- Friday’s Twitter Roundup
- Top 5 (7/31-8/2)
- Mark Staff Brandl, TV Art Evangelist
- Wednesday Clips 7/29/2009
- Justin Cooper, A 65 Million Year Old Dinosaur , and Thomas Hobbes Walk Into the MCA…
- Tuesday’s Video Pick
- Meryl Rose and others file suit to keep Rose Art Museum Open
- Recessionary Impact on Art Galleries, Coast to Coast
- Clowns Tortured by Nauman’s Clown Torture
- Big Man Japan| Big Boring and Big Laughter
- Friday’s Twitter Roundup
- Top 5 for 7/24-7/26
- Meg Onli’s Underground Railroad Project at Twelve Galleries
- Tuesday’s Video Pick
- Has Elizabeth Peyton-bashing become a sub-genre of art criticism?
- Rant of the Week: Lynn Becker on the demise of a landmark Chicago/Michigan newsstand
- The Untitled Artists’ Project: It’s already getting ugly…
- Nazis + Zombies + Campy Carnage= Dead Snow
- Friday’s Links Roundup
- Food Inc., For Dummies
- Imperfect Articles Kicks off 12 Days, 12 Shirts
- Julius Shulman, 1910-2009
- Top 5! 7/17-7/19
- Liberal Arts for the 21st Century
- Wednesday Clips 7/15/2009
- Facebook, the new face of…everything?
- Brody Condon: Meditations on Drugs, Death, Suicide and Gameplay
- RIP Dash Snow
- Tuesday’s Video Pick
- Semic and Asemic Writing in Art
- Bad at Sports: Major League Art
- Banff: The Residency
- Chicago Pocket Garden
- Shepard Fairey Sentenced to Two Years Probation in Boston Vandalism Case
- Antoine Catala’s “Couple in a Garden”
- Top 6!
- Hear Here at Julius Caesar
- Wednesday Clips 7/8/09
- Free Jerry!
- Spertus and other Illinois Arts Institutions Receive NEA American Recovery and Reinvestment Act Grants
- Friday’s Link Roundup
- Artist Rochelle Feinstein explores Michael Jackson’s legacy of failure and redemption
- Tuesday’s Video Pick
- Fallen Princesses Photo Exhibit
- 5 Chicago Collectors Make ARTnews’ Annual List of World’s Top Collectors
- Two Types of Drawing Machine
- Lori Waxman Newest Art Critic for the Chicago Tribune!
- Don Colley’s Insane Clown Posse
- SALAD-CHURCH-EXERCISE
- Paper Castle on the Ocean
- Scott Walker | 30 Century Man
- Friday’s Link Roundup
- Top…4? for 7/3, 7/4 & 7/5
- Wednesday Clips 7/1/09: Special Late-Night Mourning Edition
- Auditions for Bravo’s new art-oriented reality show to be held in Chicago this month
- “Herb and Dorothy” screens July 3, 5 and 7th at Gene Siskel Film Center
- Photo mash-ups of past and present on Flickr
June 2009
- Tuesday’s Video Pick
- He Bite Me in My Vagina
- Sarah Sood: Taking the Emotional Pulse of the Blogosphere
- Dan Peterman’s Running Table Returns to Millennium Park
- Museum in a Shoebox
- Top 5 for 6/26, 6/27 & 6/28
- TOC Speaks with Spertus About Rumored Layoffs and New Hours
- Not Another Recession Show & Chat With Rachel Kalom
- Marco Brambilla takes you to hell (and heaven, too)
- Wednesday Clips 6/24/09
- Reading, Writing, and Jana Leo’s Rape New York
- “Decidedly odd, even by Japanese standards” Big Man Japan Opens Friday
- Tuesday’s Video Pick
- Steve Bierfeldt & The Art of Answering Questions of Goverment Agents
- The Obamas are looking for art; Artinfo has some suggestions
- Eyewitness Account of Barney/Peyton Collaboration “Blood of Two”
- Friday’s Links Round Up
- Aspen Mays “Concentrate and Ask Again” at Golden
- The Wedding at Cana: Peter Greenaway’s Vision
- Iran: A Nation of Bloggers
- “Second Stories: Artists Making Do & Fixing Up” at Zolla/Lieberman Gallery
- Artist Run Chicago + Shrill and a Half Block Party at The Hyde Park Art Center
- Art Institute Lays off 22 Employees, or 3% of Staff
- Opening tonight: Second Stories: Artists Making Do & Fixing Up
- Breaking News: Art Institute Layoffs
- Invader Video
- Kalup Linzy in 500 Words
- Fridays Links Roundup
- Photographs taken by the blind
- Wednesday Clips 6/17/09
- Rant of the Week: Damien James at Newcity
- Barney/Peyton Top Secret Project Unveiled, Involves Mutton Feast
- Top 5 (from a super secret location around Fenton, MO)
- Quit Your Job and Become an Artist Panel Discussion Tomorrow Night!
- Tuesday’s Video Pick
- Jonathan T.D. Neil on “professionalization” vs. “academicization.”
- Fundraiser/Auction for Pilsen Open Studios this Thursday, June 18th
- Matthew Barney and Elizabeth Peyton Collaborate in Top Secret Project for Deste Foundation
- Banksy Takes Over The Bristol Museum
- The World of Chemistry
- Busted: Man Gets Aressted for Making a Sculpture Out of Items from a Construction Site
- Friday’s Links Roundup
- Daniel Everett’s “Broken Redirect” at Scott Projects
- Wonder What the Painting Brad Pitt Bought Looks Like?
- Top 5 for 6/12-6/14
- Memo to the NYT: Enough with all the ‘Joy of Poverty’ Stories
- Rant of the Week: Warren Ellis at Wired U.K.
- Africa Covered like Never Before
- Robert Colescott dies at 83
- Wednesday Clips 6/10/09
- Objectified
- Extreme LED Art with Sheep
- Tuesday’s Video Pick
- New Chicago Arts Blog Alert!
- Cruising for Chicks at the Modern Wing
- Francis Bacon, Fried
- Friday’s Links Roundup
- “Ferris Bueller” at BelieveInn
- BAS + Gallery Crawl
- The Swimming Cities of Serenissima
- Attempted Murder of Australian Painter Cameron Sparks
- Wednesday Clips 6/3/09
- The Art Strike: 1990-1993
- Tuesday’s Video Pick: Gary Panter on VBS.TV
- Herb and Dorothy
- In lieu of a review of ‘Several Silences’ at The Renaissance Society…
- Richard Hunt at G.R. N’Namdi Gallery
May 2009
- I Hate L.A.
- Friday’s Links Roundup
- Sita Sings the Blues, This Aint No Cat Video
- Matchitehew Assembly: June 5th and 6th, 2009
- Interview with Wynne Greenwood
- Wednesday Clips 5/27/09
- I can’t go on. I’ll go on. Our Literal Speed at Gallery 400
- Got an Extra $2.3M? Buy the House from Ferris Bueller
- Call for artists: re-envision the for rent sign
- A Lesson in How to be Canadian!
- Tuesday’s Video Pick: Matthew Green’s Spectral Dragging
- LEGO Pirate Theater
- The Obamas have an eye for art.
- Friday’s Links Roundup
- Judith Butler = Teenage Tony Hawk
- Two Takes on the One Man Band
- Wednesday Clips
- The Future Is Now*
- Sita Sings the Blues
- Tuesday’s Video Pick: 80s Art Institute Commercial
- Artists Run Chicago: In Some Ways, Better than ‘Jesus.’
- Renzo Piano on the Art Part of the AI’s Modern Wing
- Standard Operating Procedure Documentary
- What We’re Doing This Weekend 5.14-5.17
- Kara Walker speaks at University of Chicago Tonight
- Why Older Artists Are Ahead at the Auction Houses
- Quimby the Mouse by Chris Ware
- Abe’s Penny
- BAS Giveaway: Arcade of Cruelty
- Mini Fair at Chicago’s minidutch
- Dubai’s “Storyteller” is a Big Idea, a Colossal One Might Say
- Chicago Land Use, Interpreted
- Modern Wing Preview
- What We’re Doing This Weekend 5.8-5.10
- The Last of NEXT
- Jelly Roll: The Spectacle at Goffo/NEXT
- Goffo at NEXT
- I went to NEXT and all I got was this
- What to say about Jim Jarmusch’s new film?
- Editors Leave Art + Auction, Modern Painters and ArtInfo.com
- BAS Giveaway: PHONEBOOK vol.2: 2008/2009
- Art Chicago Wrapup: Special Exhibitions Edition
- Wendy and Lucy
- Automata, The Art of a Moment Relived.
- Interview with NEXT First-Timers Mahan Gallery
- Ass-kicking Mama Artists at NEXT
- The Hairy Who and Imagist Legacy at Art Chicago
- Wearable Horse Hoof Prosthetics
- NEXT Fair Follies
- World Bodypainting Festival
- Our Literal Speed
- Kevin Stanton on The Chicago Art Parade
April 2009
- Artropolis Twitter Coverage
- Artropolis/Art Chicago Picks
- Duncan MacKenzie, Hacker?
- Betting on Artists’ Futures
- Response: Art and the Art of Criticism
- NFO XPO Recap
- BAS Giveaway NFO XPO Edition
- Friday Clips 4/24/09
- Trib Lays off Alan Artner
- What We’re Doing This Weekend: 4.23-4.26
- Bad at Sports Picks for Version 09
- Objectified: Hevetica for Industrial Designers
- Frank Gehry Threatens To Quit Miami Beach Project
- Ed Marszewski on Version 09
- Chicago Alderman Restarts Pressure on Art Institute Price Increase
- Searching for Bruce Sterling
- Holland Cotter Wins Pulitzer Prize
- R.I.P. J.G. Ballard
- Steve McQueen’s Hunger
- The Hounds of Love
- What We’re Doing This Weekend 4.17-4.19
- Friday Clips 4/17/09
- That’s It, I’m out of here
- BAS Giveaway: The Wizard’s Hat
- Seth Price at Light Industry
- Photo by Helene Binet
- Sister Taking Nap in Seattle
- Generation OMG!
- 19 Students Arrested at New School Protest
- Brian Dettmer at Packer Schopf
- Tag ties & effective spies
- Friday Clips 4/10/09
- What We’re Doing This Weekend 4.9-4.12
- Two Will Enter But Only One Will Leave
- BAS on Twitter
- Tate Finaly Gets Style With New Wing
- Electric Car? Art? Made of Wood?
- ArtBabble Launches Tuesday
- Smoking Kid Art
- MW Capacity
- The Soundsuits of Nick Cave: Contemporary Art or Material Culture?
- Joe Zucker in Conversation with Klaus Kertess
- Bad at Sports Giveaway Winner
- Little Red Riding Hood Told By Engineers
- Blind Carbon Copy Interview
- Postopolis! Blogathon in L.A.
- Friday Clip Show
- What We’re Doing This Weekend 4.3-4.5
- V for Vendetta in Kinetic Typography
- Collier Schorr:There I Was
- Tony Fitzpatrick: Big Rock Candy Mountain Opening Tonight
- Yoko Ono 1933-2009
- Inaugural Artadia Awardees 2009 Atlanta
- Broadcast Yourself tonight at Pratt Institute
March 2009
- Because I like the title so much…
- It Is What It Is Has Begun
- Rinder’s ‘Galaxy’ at Berkeley Art Museum
- Consider a Degree from the Philadelphia Institute for Advanced Study
- Bad at Sports Giveaway #2
- Leon Fleisher Performing at Artspeaks Tuesday
- Postopolis! LA
- Advancements in TV Technology
- Shepard Fairey Backlash?
- What We’re Doing This Weekend: 3.27 – 3.29
- Let the Right One In
- Southern Graphics Council: Global Implications Conference Begins Today
- Art Pros and Their Internets
- Matthew Rich at Dan Devening Projects + Editions
- Twit Twat Twut, The Art of Twitter
- Paul H-O interviewed by C-Monster
- Christie’s Sued Over $40M guarantee for Unsold Francis Bacon Painting
- Rachel Mason at Andrew Rafacz Gallery
- Dave Hullfish Bailey at The Suburban
- What We’re Doing This Weekend: 3.20-3.22
- Matériel Magazine and Pr Launch Party
- Cory Arcangel: Conversations at the Edge
- LOADED: Hunting Culture In America reception tonight
- Gareth James Tonight at SAIC
- Apartment Gallery in New York?
- L.A. MOCA: Where Are They Now? + Rose Art Museum Symposium Tonight
- Crisis of Credit Visualized
- Saturday Night Art Seen
- Re: Should Bad At Sports Twitter Art Reviews?
- Openings at He Said/She Said and The Suburban This Weekend
- Art Institute Raises Price of Admission: “Cannibalism,” or Just “Keeping Up”?
- Chicago Public Library Poster Design Competition
- Protect Protect
- Two With Water Magazine Gets Incubate’s “Sunday Soup Grant”
- Meg watched The Watchmen
- When Commercial Galleries “Flatline,” Apartment Galleries Give Hugs
- Mapplethorpe Film & Panel Discussion this Weekend
- Zine Workshop at ThreeWalls this Saturday
- Walk-In Pantry at mini dutch this Saturday
- Token New York Art Fair Post
- Art journals round table discussion
- Is there such a thing as a Chicago artist anymore? on YouTube
- What’s in the Box?
- Ben Street on Curating
- Small Is (Usually) Good
- Crowd-Sourced Curation
February 2009
- Andrea Fraser Tonight at SAIC
- Artist Mark Staff Brandl’s Work Disapears From Exhibit
- Crips and Bloods: Made in America
- New COAGULA Available
- Experimental Geography
January 2009
- Creatures of the Wind in the Reader
- Deb Sokolow at the MCA
- Links Roundup: Brandeis University to Close Rose Art Museum
- Ed Marszewski on PAPERMAG
- Long Time No Talkie
- Jim Lutes at the Renaissance Society
- Chicago Artist? Roundtable
- Links Roundup
- Helvetica
- Robert Lostutter at Corbett vs. Dempsey
December 2008
- Happy Holidays
- Barny’s Final Christmas Video
- Some More MOCA Updates
- Trenton Doyle Hancock
- Saving MOCA
- Whitney Names 2010 Biennial Curators
- Dave Hickey in Vanity Fair
- Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev Named Artist Director for documenta 13
- Blip Festival
- Mark Leckey Wins the Turner Prize
- Joseph Grigely Lecture at the MCA
November 2008
- Mary Boone on Bloomberg
- Happy Thanksgiving
- Art News 11.26
- MOCA Recap
- Third Coast International Audio Festival
- Artadia Awards Applications In Atlanta Due Soon
- Art News 11.21
- MOCA’s Financial Woes
- News Updates
- Bad at Sports Giveaway
- Clementine Deliss in bootprint and at the Franke Institute
- Amanda Ross Ho Speaking Tonight at DePaul
- Select Media Festival 7 Begins This Weekend
- Add-Art & AFC
- Artadia and AIA Chicago Awards
- Richard Prince on VBS
- Obama Won! Hope you can survive the change.
- Art News Roundup: Week 3 & 4
- Random News
- For a Brief Time Only…
- Get a Free Shepard Fairey “Yes We Did” Sticker
- Penn Jillette on Tony Fitzpatrick
- If I was back in LA on Friday the 7th I would probably check out…
- Obama + Updates
- Last Night to Catch Jenny Holzer Projections
October 2008
- Nick Cave’s Soundsuits
- Chicago Gallery Review: October 08′
- C-Monster on The 2008 California Biennial
- Obituary: Ben Schaafsma
- Jerry Saltz on Frieze
- Land Art: Here Today, Gone Tomorrow?
- Art News Roundup: Week 2
- Artforum’s 500 words with AA Bronson
- Jenny Holzer is Not on Twitter – Kathryn Born Does Actual Investigative Journalism
- NY Art Book Fair Starts Tomorrow
- PROTECT PROTECT
- Art Fag City on Live Forever: Elizabeth Peyton
- Nadav Kander on Sophie Calle
- The Post Family Has New Digs
- Free Beuys and Judd Buttons at The Walker
- Art News Roundup: Week 1
- Batmobama & Robiden
- Around The Coyote Discount Tickets?
- If You Can’t Afford Freize, Check out the Guardian’s Guide
- Roberta Smith on Elizabeth Peyton’s Show at The New Museum
- Competition Notice
- Return to sender: Artist puts Royal Mail to the test
- Bad Ass Mother
- GEISAI Miami: Call For Artists
- Eliasson’s Fog Engulfs Vienna Building
- Charles Saatchi Opens Third Gallery
- Roberta Smith Answers the Question, “How Do Critics Experience Art?”
- What Do Curators Want? Podcast Series
- Pope vs Kippenberger
- Evan Roth’s X-Ray Messages
September 2008
- LACMA Recives Large Donation
- Paddy Johnson Interviews Chelsea Art Museum President Dorthea Keeser
- If Textbooks Could Talk?
- NYC: Jenny Holzer on the Guggenheim
- Chelsea Art Museum WTF?
- Francis Alÿs Artist Lecture at The Renaissance Society
- Farnsworth House Flooded
- The Aesthetics of Terror at The Chelsea Art Museum Cancelled
- Black Romantic
- Guggenheim Names New Director
- Grudge Match From Way Back
- Still Alive Typography Video
- Betsy Baker Resigned As Editor of Art in America
- Letter From God to Man
- Nagi Noda dead at 35
- Palin for President…….ahem Michael.
- Bad at Sports “covers” the 2008 Art season opening night
- Hey Norway it is me, Asshat.
- Pope Benedict Stops Frog Threat
August 2008
- Banksy Decends on New Orleans
- Damien Hirst Cuts Out the Middle Gal’lery and Sells Direct
- Art Overshadows Beijing Olympic Handoff to London
- Come for the Chekhov stay for the Burlesque
- Chicago Mag Names BaS Best Podcast of 2008
July 2008
- Art Basel & UBS Come Under IRS & Senate Investigation
- Rush playing Rush on Rock Band
- Un-remark-etable
- What if Fonts Lived & Had A Union?
- What Have You Done For Me Lately?
- Art Institute of Chicago Announces New President
- What Kind of Art Do You Want To See?
- Come See a “Live” BAS Interview with René de Guzman!
- Bad at Sports on the Ground
June 2008
- Outside the Loop Radio Interviews BaS
- Ciaran Murphy at Kavi Gupta Gallery
- The Amanda Browder Show is Coming to a Gallery Near You
- The Guardian has it’s Art Critics report on Sports for a Day
- Those Who Can’t “Do”, Quit. (And Then Write About It)
- Charles Saatchi is at it Again
- End of the World as We Know it!
- The Chapman Brothers Team Up With Hitler
- Guard at Carnegie Museum of Art Slashes Painting He Doesn’t Like
May 2008
- Driehaus Foundation Unveils Winners of 2008 Artist Awards
- In my world of Unicorns and Wizards.
- Photographer Bill Henson’s Work Seized
- Artist Nests on Rotterdam Tower
- Louis Vuitton Sues Art Student Who Did Darfur Illustration
- Bob Ross’ Unaired Pilot Episode
- Robert Rauschenberg Dead at 82
- EMERGENCY ANTI-ARTS WARNING! Call your Alderman Now!
- Gap Artist Edition T-Shirts – Jeff Koons/Barbara Kruger/Chuck Close/& More
- David Byrne Turns Builidng Into an Instrument
- Bullet Speed Helvetica Dropclock Screensaver
- Art Instalation Reinterprets Voices Into Music
- Stop Signs with tounge firmly planted in cheek
April 2008
- BaS Video Interview-Pamela Michelle Johnson
- Free Art School in Miami?
- Charges Against Artist Steve Kurtz Thrown Out
- Italian Artist Pippa Bacca Murdered on Peace Tour
- Yale Art Student Uses Abortion as an Art Medium
- Artist Starves Dog to Death
- Spain’s Guggenheim Bilbao Sacks CFO for Embezzlement
- SERIOUSLY!!!! Bike it.
BearBare Stearns wishes everyone a merry Tax Day- Vera Wang’s new ad agency is so very lost
- National Gallery of Victoria buys a Van Gogh…err a Rubens? Wait is it a Gavin Turk?
- The Hipster Olympics Have Just Been Held
- Daniel Birnbaum Nominated for Director of the Visual Arts for the 53rd Venice Biennale
- Improv Everywhere is not Bad at Sports?
- Duncan’s “What What” goes full circle
- Bad at Sports Goes to The Armory Show
- Discussion of Make You Notice at San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery
March 2008
- Abdessemed Exhibition Closed Under Threats of Violence
- Controversial Exhibition Suspended In San Francisco
- Elkins Stone Theory Institute part 1
- Ebay Art Scam Broken Up In Chicago
- Iraq Breakdown by Key Indices
- Buddha sells for $14.3mil, Breaks Japansese Art Record
- Cosmetics head Lauder and Chairman to Whitney board donates $131 million to the Whitney Museum
- LoL Susan Sontag
- Chess broken down to the street level
- Slow Art News Day? Discover New Music!
- Wafaa Bilal Censored at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
- Troika’s Newton Virus
- New York Time’s Interactive Whitney Biennial Photos
- Dubya The Singing Cowboy?
- Steve Hamann: David Roth Review
- Tracy Emin’s Stupid Project
- The Kentucky Fried Onion Movie?
- Art is giving Mickey Mouse a Headache
- Does the whole = the sum of it’s parts?
February 2008
- Texas Voters Take the Fast Lane (and every other one) to the Polls
- Duncan and Brian Speak at CAA
- And we thought Fox News had cornered the market on extreme opinions.
- Japan High Court Thinks Long & Hard About Mapplethorpe Book
- BaS Adopt-a-Kitty
- Happy Valentines Day to our readers
- Two artworks alike in dignity, but are they too alike?
- Colorful artspace breaks from moorings, kills two
- Mind the gap, not the breasts… London Underground museaum ad causes stir
- Anti-Racism Day PSA
- You Fucking Sellout.
- Tracy Emin Supposed Plagiarizer Opens Library
- Super Tuesday leads into Mediocre Hangover Laden Wednesday
- Murakami Steals Awesome Graffiti
- Getty Acquires Loan of Bernini’s After Handing Over Looted Art.
January 2008
- Chicago MCA Director Leaves
- Robert Smithson’s Spiral Jetty May Be in Danger
- That Darn Melanie Schiff
- Art Fair Madness
- Teaching Orange County
- Tired of being “Bad at Sports”?
- The Ultimate Art School Building
- The Scariest Thing Ever
- Chicago Mag names Bad at Sports one of the city’s top sites.
- Sir Robert J. Loescher: 1937 – 2007
- Brian and Marc review Tony Lebat’s “Bulk”
- Informative Video of Duncan’s Homeland
December 2007
- David Robbins is Still Funnier Then You
- Mark Wallinger: Turner Prize Winner.
- Art Institute of Chicago’s Gauguin sculpture declared a fake
- New York Magazine: Year in Art Review
- Art Basel Miami sees attendance rise
- New Zealander to be 1st artist to draw in space
- Political Attack Ad season is here…
- 40000 Closing: Not an Exhibition
November 2007
- Whitney Biennial 2008? List Time!
- Gallery showing that skips the pretense, Art you can drink
- New Packard Jennings Kiosks in SF
- Stunning temples 100 feet below the surface of the Italian Alps
- A Public Service Announcement from Bad at Sports
- Cy Twombly gets paid for the kiss of death
October 2007
- How to write Australian Political Ads
- Miami Beach news report [or] why I am not going to Art Basel this year.
- Seriously, You’re Growing an Ear on Your Arm?
- Artist builds hidden apartment in a Mall, gets arrested after 4 years.
September 2007
- Are gardens art? When do you own art? When can you destroy art?
- Steve Hamann: Mars Gallery Review
- 9/11 remembered in 3D processed images
- Turner Prize 22 Year Retrospective Asks Winners What They Thought
- Miami Art Collection Crumbles
- Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich down right unfriendly to artists.
- Hirst reported as major investor in the purchase of his own diamond skull
- Woman views her own heart on display
August 2007
July 2007
- A Public Service Announcement from Bad at Sports
- Artist Jeremy Blake missing, and his girlfriend has committed suicide
- 35 year old head curator of the Korean Sungkok Art Museum for 12 months fired for fraudulent credentials
- Cy Twombly gets the kiss of death
June 2007
- This only could happen in Duncan’s Canada
- Update: Edward Lifson said goodbye to Hello Beautiful!…..!
- Call to Arms, an open letter from Paul Klein
May 2007
April 2007
- This just in: Merchandise Mart to purchase Armory show in New York.
- Claude’s BS Artist Statement of the Week
- 2006 US Art Acquisitions:Listed by Museum
- Man picks fight with painting at the Milwaukee Museum of Art & loses
- Art Price puts out annual market report
- Detroit art gallery wins Van Gogh case
March 2007
- Chocolate Jesus……..what can you say that hasn’t been mumbled already.
- Movie Review: American Hardcore
- Abu Dhabi is the new Miami?
- Steve Hamann
- Minnesota bill to create post for State Poet Laureate has a beat to it
February 2007
January 2007
December 2006
November 2006
October 2006
- Flavorpill’s bitesize coverage
- BAS on Time Out Chicago
- Episode 59: Lisa Boyle & Reviews
- This just in………
- Turner controversy: just another day at the office
- Where did all the Sensation art go?
September 2006
- Shear art attack
- Is it art? Teacher strips in class
- UN World Intellectual Property Organization Treaty for the Protection of Broadcasts and Broadcasting Organizations
- Come And See Us Live!!!
- New Art Czar to bring Money Back to Chicago Schools, In Talks With Drug Czar
- Crocodile Hunter’ Steve Irwin has Died
