Episode 942: Embajada Gallery
Recorded live at NADA Art Fair, Episode 942 features a deeply generous conversation with gallerist and artist Christopher Rivera—founder of Embajada (“Embassy”) Gallery in Puerto Rico. Joined by hosts Ryan Peter Miller, Tom Sanford, and William “Bill” Pereda, Rivera discusses artist-led infrastructures, building a gallery as a political and conceptual project, and the evolving ecosystem of Puerto Rican contemporary art.
TOP V. WEEKEND PICKS (5/14-5/20)
1. Sara Grose: everything looks blurry May 14, 6-10PM Weatherproof: 3336 W Lawrence Ave, Ste. 303 2. Hazel Katz: WHO GETS TO FLY May 15, 6-9PM ACRE Projects: 2921 N Clark St 3. Allen Moore: Chasing what the Water Kept and Wendy Robles & Michael...
Episode 941: Myra Greene
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Recorded live in Atlanta at the Art Papers Symposium at Ponce City Market, Duncan MacKenzie and Brian Andrews sit down with artist, educator, and department chair Myra Greene for a conversation on materiality, identity, and the long arc from photography to textiles to weaving.
Episode 940: Emily Llamazales
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Recorded live during the Art Papers Symposium in Atlanta, Duncan MacKenzie and Brian Andrews sit down with artist Emily Llamazales to talk speculative biology, adaptive futures, and sculptural ecosystems that feel equal parts laboratory experiment and sci-fi relic.
Episode 939: Sarah Higgins
Art Papers, Fire Ecology, and Ending Well. This week on Bad at Sports, we sit down in Atlanta with Sarah Higgins, Executive and Artistic Director of Art Papers, during the Art Papers symposium. What unfolds is a candid, generous, and surprisingly hopeful conversation about what it means to end something well. As Art Papers approaches its final chapter after nearly 50 years, Higgins lays out a model for institutional closure that resists panic, rejects compromise, and instead asks: what if ending is a form of contribution?
Episode 938: Tori Tinsley
Recorded live at the Art Papers Symposium in Atlanta, this episode features a deeply personal and wide-ranging conversation with Tori Tinsley. Joined by Brian Andrews and Duncan MacKenzie, Tinsley reflects on caregiving, grief, motherhood, and the evolution of her “hug” figures across painting, sculpture, and animation.
Episode 937: Nato Thompson
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This week on Bad at Sports, Duncan MacKenzie, Brian Andrews, and Abigail Satinsky sit down with Nato Thompson for a conversation that spans collapsing institutions, alternative economies, and what it actually means to sustain a life in art.
TOP V. WEEKEND PICKS (5/7-5/13)
1. Adehle Daley & Tatiana Sky: After we let go May 8, 6-9PM crosswalk: 1856 N Richmond St 2. Side by Side: Color and Textiles May 7, 4:30-6:30PM CWAC Exhibitions: 5540 S Greenwood Ave Work by: Anna Kuczma, Lialia Kuchma, Liz Barr, Charlie Kolodziej, and...
Sub-Rural, # 59, Messineo & Khoury at The Green Gallery
In “Turned,” two artists packed The Green Gallery with optical and technologically interactive bodies of work prompting critical spaces between sculpture, painting and craft. The gallery’s complex trapezoidal floor-plan rejects the ordinary architecture of traditional...
TOP V. WEEKEND PICKS (4/30-5/6)
1. Stacey Lee Gee: ROTATOR May 1, 6-9PM Ignition project space: 3839 W. Grand Ave 2. Che Pai: Clouding a Thousand Dreams ???? April 30, 5:30-8:30PM neomediapolis: Studio 473, 2233 S Throop St 3. Jesse Ly: try, take time – take time, try May 1,...
TOP V. WEEKEND PICKS (4/9-4/15)
1. Paths for the Study of Contingent Dimensions April 17, 6-9PM Flatline Gallery: 1925 N Milwaukee Ave Work by: Vivien Adamian, J. Grace Giordano, Ian James, Tong Pan, and Deb Sokolow 2. One’s Position (and a route) April 17, 6-9PM Roman Susan at Experimental...
TOP V FROM EXPO CHICAGO 2026
Welcome to this week’s TOP V from EXPO CHICAGO at Navy Pier. Also, don’t forget to check out this week’s TOP V for a selection of provocative programs around Chicago this weekend. 1. GEARY Booth 412 Work by: Ethan Greenbaum and Sun You 2. Bockley Gallery Booth...
TOP V. WEEKEND PICKS (4/9-4/15)
1. Ceninye Harris: Configurations of the Mutable Self April 9, 6-9PM Caira Moreira Projects: 2147 S Lumber St 508b 2. Brooke Raven: TAILGATER April 10, 6-9PM crosswalk: 1856 N Richmond St 3. ASMA: Dramatic Dinosaur April 11, 2-5PM Prairie: 2055 W Cermak...
Sub-Rural, #58, Carmon Colangelo
This 2021 quote below from Carmon Colangelo cites a moment in his 20-year survey opening this month at Bruno David Gallery in St. Louis. The show coincides with the final semester of the artist’s 20 years as Dean of The Sam Fox School of Design and Visual Arts at...
TOP V. WEEKEND PICKS (4/2-4/8)
1. Noelle Africh: Signal April 4, 6-9PM Twelve Ten Gallery: 1104 W Thorndale Ave 2. Titus Wonsey: WADING April 3, 6-9PM ARTRUSS: 4553 W Diversey Ave 3. Lindsey Kircher: Girl Talk April 3, 6-8PM Oliva Gallery: 3816 W Armitage Ave 4....
TOP V. WEEKEND PICKS (3/26-4/1)
1. Jess Atieno: Sightlines, Ghosts, and Other Stories of the Impossible March 26, 6-8PM Arts + Public Life: 301 E Garfield Blvd 2. Amy Pearl Lang: CASTLE March 28, 6-9PM SAWHORSE: 4222 W Fullerton Ave 3. Cheryl Pope: ALL THERE IS March 28, 4-7PM...