Episode 953: George Scheer
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Executive Director of the Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, former co-founder of Elsewhere Museum, printmaking evangelist, institutional theorist, and recovering residency founder George Scheer joins Duncan and Ryan for a sprawling conversation about artist-centered institutions, the legacy of Robert Blackburn, socially engaged practice, the economics of DIY arts infrastructures, and what happens when artists try to build sustainable worlds inside systems that rarely reward care work.
Sub-Rural # 61, Obama Presidential Center
The Obama Presidential Center (OPC) opening today on its 19-acre southside campus designed by architects Billie Tsien and Todd Williams with landscape by Michael van Valkenburgh is an extraordinary architectural trek that’s gained much deserved attention but...
Episode 952: Tali Halpern
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Bad at Sports Episode 951 has Duncan MacKenzie and Ryan Peter Miller still in Miami for a conversation with Chicago artist Tali Halpern at NADA, representing 1210 Gallery. The conversation spans weaving, sobriety, punk music, queer identity, labor, spectacle, and the ecstatic possibilities of fiber art. Halpern discusses their transition from painting and addiction into weaving, their work with digital looms at Loom Room, and the way embellishment, rhinestones, embroidery, and collage become acts of healing and reconstruction.
Episode 951: William Powhida
At NADA Miami, Duncan MacKenzie, Ryan Peter Miller, Tom Sandford and returning guest William Powhida dig into the art world’s annual power rituals, the shifting geography of cultural influence, Gulf-state biennials, wealth concentration, and the contradictions of contemporary art’s relationship to capitalism. Starting from Powhida’s commissioned work for the annual ArtReview Power 100 issue, the conversation encompasses discussions of oligarchy, philanthropy, redistribution, art fairs, nationalism, soft power, artist-run infrastructure, and Powhida’s ambitious experimental project, the Zero Art Fair.
Episode 950: Justin H Long
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Live from the fair circuit heat (not Miami… but spiritually always Miami), Duncan MacKenzie, Ryan Peter Miller, and Tom Sanford catch up with artist Justin H. Long, self-described “original Florida man,” to talk boats, comedy, identity, and the strange poetics of nautical culture.
Episode 949: Hilde Lynn Helphenstein
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I don’t quite know how to start this. It feels important to repost this interview because of Hilde.
Hilde Lynn Helpenstein was a kickass human.
“Jerry Gogosian” was a lance aimed directly at our pretensions and self-importance. I, and all of us at Bad at Sports, will miss our fellow traveler.
Episode 948: Esther Park
In this episode of Bad at Sports, recorded at the tail end of a sun-soaked, sweat-drenched, and somehow still magical Miami Art Week, Duncan MacKenzie and Ryan Peter Miller sit down with curator and cultural programmer Esther Park—the force behind this year’s public programming at New Art Dealers Alliance (NADA).
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Sub-Rural # 60, Michelle Grabner Interview
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Sub-Rural, # 59, Messineo & Khoury at The Green Gallery
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