Episode 898: Wafaa Bilal and Bana Kattan
This week. Dana’s back?
She and Duncan sit down with artist Wafaa Bilal and curator Bana Kattan to discuss Bilal’s powerful and deeply personal mid-career retrospective at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago. Known for his provocative, often participatory works that grapple with war, trauma, displacement, and surveillance, Bilal has long made the body both a site of resistance and a vessel of memory.
Sub-Rural #48, Craig Drennen at The Suburban
Craig Drennen modifies critical modern paint protocol with some serious extracurricular counter-encryption at “The Suburban” in Milwaukee. He composes fresh content for the stylistic offspring of 20th century painting by tapping his memory and our collective history...
Episode 897: Architecture, Documentaries, and Changing Minds with Kyle Bergman and Ashley Lukasik
In this episode, we talk Architectural Doucmentaries, Graphic Design, the cross over of the art and design audiences, and whether or not social practice could be a job
Episode 896: Beth Hetland and Kyle O’Connell
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In the final episode recorded live from Stitch and Staple: The Artist Book Fair, we’re thrilled to sit down with two incredible comic creators, Beth Hetland and Kyle O’Connell. This conversation dives deep into the world of comics and graphic narratives, with Hetland and O’Connell offering insights into their creative collaborations and shared comic interests.
Episode 895: Emma Bergman
In this episode, Bad at Sports welcomes artist, writer, and thinker Emma Bergman to discuss a range of fascinating topics that blend the personal, the theoretical, and the speculative.
Episode 894: Hoof Print Press & Immaterial Publications
In this episode, Bad at Sports dives into the world of independent publishing, printmaking, and the intersections of art, academia, and production with two innovative presses pushing the boundaries of their respective fields, Hoof Print Press & Immaterial Books.
Episode 893: Cecilia Beaven
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In this episode, we sit down with Cecilia Beaven, a dynamic Mexican-born artist, muralist, and illustrator whose work bridges the worlds of fine art and public spaces. Beaven’s pieces have graced both urban environments and galleries, transforming her surroundings with a unique blend of surrealism, humor, and critical commentary. Her work explores themes of myth, identity, and the fantastical, reflecting on the human experience through vibrant, intricate visual narratives.
TOP V. WEEKEND PICKS (3/26-4/2)
1. Helen Geglio & Anders Zanichkowsky: GUARDIAN THREADS March 28, 6-9PM Epiphany Center for the Arts: 201 S Ashland Ave 2. Anke Loh: RenaisSENSES March 28, 6-8PM International Museum of Surgical Science: 1524 N Lake Shore Dr 3. Stacy Jo Scott: Writ...
TOP V. WEEKEND PICKS (3/20-3/26)
1. Ruby Que and Raychel Carrión: It Comes to Pass March 23, 6-9PM Switch-Hook Projects: 3216 W Augusta Blvd, Chicago 2. Isaac Díaz: Cuscatlismo March 21, 6-9PM KIOSK: 3054 N Sheffield Ave 3. Erol Scott Harris: Harlequin Choreographies March 22, 12-3PM...
TOP V. WEEKEND PICKS (3/6-3/12)
1. Alana Ferguson: Thin Outer Layer March 7, 6-10PM Patient Info: 902 N Western Ave 2. Lehna Huie: In Remembrance of Us March 6, 6-9PM ACRE Projects: 2921 N Clark St 3. Nick D’Alessandro and Kai Jenrette: Sprocket March 8, 6-9PM LVL3: 1542 N Milwaukee...
Sub-Rural #47 Dieter Roth at the MCA
The Museum of Contemporary Art is currently exhibiting Dieter Roth’s “Balabild 5” in the McCormick Tribune Gallery. The assemblage/installation is a remarkable example of radical midcentury anti-aesthetics by one of the century’s phenomenal Neo-Dada polymaths, tat...
TOP V. WEEKEND PICKS (2/27-3/5)
1. Mariel Harari: The possibility of an expanse and what interrupts it February 28, 6-9PM Co-Prosperity: 3219 S Morgan St 2. Seonyoung Lee: Woven Emotions February 28, 5-9PM Art City: 1400 N Halsted St 3. Kalyn Fay Barnoski and Haley Greenfeather...
TOP V. WEEKEND PICKS (2/20-2/26)
1. Delisha McKinney: The Colorful Chaos February 21, 6-9PM Elephant Room Gallery: 704 S Wabash Ave 2. Light Preserver February 21, 6-9PM Joy Machine: 4148 N Elston Ave Work by: Moises Salazar, David Heo, Liz Flores, Peter Frederiksen, Danym Kwon, Lisa Congdon,...
TOP V. WEEKEND PICKS (2/13-2/19)
1. Palak Patel: Throw down February 15, 6-9PM Free Range: 3257 W Lawrence Ave 2. Melissa Grace Kreider: Worthy February 14, 5-9PM The Center for Mad Culture: 410 S Michigan Ave, Suite 419 3. VESNA JOVANOVIC: FLOSS WAGON February 15, 2-5PM Compound...
TOP V. WEEKEND PICKS (2/6-2/12)
1. chlee: OF GIRLS AND MEN February 7, 5:30-7PM Fourth Presbyterian Church: 126 E Chestnut St Work by: Candace Hunter (chlee). Curated by Monica J. Brown 2. Hal Shipman: Forbidden Love at the Desert’s Edge February 8, 5-7PM Gerber/Hart Library & Archives:...
Sub-Rural #46, Guy Whitney, 1949 – 2025
Guy Whitney, artist, School of the Art Institute graduate, founding member of N.A.M.E. gallery, skillful abstractionist, curator, and art handler passed away last week. Whitney was a graduate student at an opportune time in the SAIC’s history when the painting...