Blog10: A report from the UK blogosphere

Blog10: A report from the UK blogosphere

In the popular imagination, bookshops in Notting Hill may be where bumbling Englishmen meet Hollywood filmstars. Last night it was where a bumbling art writer, played by myself, got to meet some of the UK’s most successful bloggers. The venue was Book and Kitchen, who...
Out of the Mouths of Artists: Michael Gimenez

Out of the Mouths of Artists: Michael Gimenez

“Out of the Mouths of Artists” is a new bi-monthly series on the Bad at Sports blog. The series presents a space for guest artist bloggers–of varying career statuses–to write, to reflect, to pontificate on their current situations, failures and/or successes, and ideas...
Ben Gest:  Laboring to Enact the Real

Ben Gest: Laboring to Enact the Real

Guest post by Virginia Konchan   Photography must annihilate itself as medium to be no longer a sign, but the thing itself.   —Roland Barthes   Ben Gest’s photorealist photography, comprised of stark, neo-classical tableaux, depicts alienated subjects...
Listfulness: Schema Variation

Listfulness: Schema Variation

Is this ok? Is this a responsible use of this privilege? How much does Bad at Sports pay its writers? Its readers? I’m like you, reader. I’m in the weeds. I’m in the thick of it. Everyone is paying everyone else too much. Our government runs smoothly but we don’t have...