Episode 922: Andi Crist
Recorded at the Stony Island Arts Bank / Chicago Architecture Biennial tailgate
In this wild, funny, and unexpectedly heartfelt tailgate episode, the Bad at Sports crew — Duncan MacKenzie, Brian Andrews, Ryan Peter Miller, and Jesse Malmed — sit down with sculptor and arts worker Andi Crist in front of the Stony Island Arts Bank during the Chicago Architecture Biennial.
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1.Brick Cassidy & Aubrey LaDuke: In Most Cases, More December 5, 6-9PM Point Blank: 3317 W Fullerton Ave, 2. Alexander Breus & Elijah Ross: Please Set Me At Ease December 6, 6-9PM RUPCORP: 3012 S Archer Ave 3. Bria Bridges: COMMON THREADS...
Episode 921 – Lori Waxman
In this live MCA tailgate episode, the Bad at Sports crew — Duncan MacKenzie, Ryan Peter Miller, Brian Andrews, and Jesse Malmed — sit down with Chicago Tribune and Hyperallergic critic Lori Waxman to dig into the past, present, and uncertain future of art criticism.
Episode: 920 Tony Lewis
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Recorded live at the CAB6 × MCA Tailgate – This episode was recorded as part of the Chicago Architecture Biennial (CAB6) activation on the plaza of the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, where Bad at Sports staged a series of open-air interviews, community dialogues, and tailgate-style broadcasts. Artists, architects, students, and the public intersected in a shared social space designed for porous conversation. Episode 920 features Tony Lewis, whose practice has shaped Chicago’s contemporary drawing discourse for more than a decade.
Episode 919: Kohler, Throckmorton, and Grabner
This week, Bad at Sports hits the road and heads north to Sheboygan and Kohler, Wisconsin — where art, industry, and community collide. We drop into the John Michael Kohler Arts Center (JMKAC) and the Kohler Arts/Industry Residency program to see how a small Midwestern town sustains one of the most ambitious intersections of art and manufacturing in the country. Michelle Grabner and Jodi Throckmorton.
Episode 918: Amanda Ross-Ho
This week we sit down with Amanda Ross-Ho, whose large-scale sculptures, staged environments, and uncanny translations of domestic and studio life have made her a vital presence in contemporary art. Recorded in Chicago around her latest exhibition, the conversation spans everything from monumental t-shirts to the politics of labor, and from the intimacy of the studio to the spectacle of the art fair.
Episode 917: Two Palms and Alex Slattery
This week, we print big or go home. Bad at Sports cast their eyes to New York from the safe confines of the Chicago Architectural Biennial booth at EXPO 2025 to talk with the legendary Two Palms studio in the guise of Alex Slattery. If you’ve ever stood slack-jawed in front of a monoprint the size of a small car or a woodblock cut so large it needed its own logistics plan, chances are Two Palms was behind it.
Sub-Rural # 54, “Channeling” at the MoCP
A finely tuned exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Photography calls attention to issues of media, social practice, fuzzy logic, and humanistic philosophy’s influence on modern and contemporary art reception. Artist curators Joan Giroux and Alice Maude-Roxby have...
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Sub-Rural #54, Punked Up Milwaukee
The “Gig’s Up: 50 Years of Milwaukee Punk Posters” exhibition at Real Tinsel Gallery argues zealously for more critical attention to the era of Milwaukee’s alternative rock foundations shown in its vast promotional optic co-narrative. If you’re already familiar with...
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1. Aya Nakamura: Parts, Places October 26, 4-7PM 4th Ward Project Space: 5338 S Kimbark Ave 2. Chaosophy October 25, 8:30-11PM Site/less: 1250 W Augusta Blvd Work by: Verónica Casado Hernández, Aza Greenlee, Radu Nistoroiu, and Unenthused Groupie 3. In...
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1. Rebecca Griffith: Video Magic 1996 October 10, 5-9PM Art City: 1400 N Halsted St 2. Minor Harmonies October 9, 6-9PM Tala: 1644 W Chicago Ave, #1 Work by: Laila Majid, Joseph J. Greer, and Anastasia Sif Karkazis. Curated by Misael José Oquendo 3....