TOP V. WEEKEND PICKS (11/5-11/11)
1. Dianna Frid: Stanzas November 7, 5-7:30PM Patron Gallery: 1612 W Chicago Ave 2. New Forms of Survivance November 7, 7PM - until the last one closes the door Watershed Art & Ecology: 1821 S Racine Ave Work by: Basel Almaqousi, Dina Matar, Khalid Hussain,...
Episode 978: Delano Dunn
This week on Bad at Sports, Duncan MacKenzie and Brian Andrews visit the studio of artist Delano Dunn, whose dazzling collages combine the visual excess of the 1980s and ’90s with the deeply uncomfortable histories embedded in American popular culture.
Episode 977: E. Saffronia Downing
What can a handful of dirt tell you about where you live? At ACRE Projects in Chicago, the Bad at Sports crew joins ceramic artist E. Saffronia Downing amid her exhibition Pressed Flower to talk about wild clay, the material memory of cities, and what happens when people are invited to mail you their dirt.
Episode 976: Tony Lewis and Bosco Bae
Duncan MacKenzie and Jesse Malmed sit down with artist Tony Lewis and Bosco Bae, brother of the late Chicago artist Gregory Bae (1986–2021), for a moving, funny, and candid conversation recorded live at PATRON Gallery in Chicago.
Episode 975: Paul Nudd
Brian Andrews, Duncan MacKenzie, and Ryan Peter Miller sit down with Chicago-area artist Paul Nudd at Spudnik Press, surrounded by the work of the 1st International Milwaukee Riso Invitational.
Episode 974: Mari Eastman
What makes a painting worth saving? What happens when the image in your head refuses to become the image on your panel? And why does everybody want another fox?
Sub-Rural, #65, B@S #999 Podfest
"All words have the ”taste” of a profession, a genre, a tendency, a party, a particular work, a particular person, a generation, an age group, the day and hour. Each word tastes of the context and contexts in which it has lived its socially charged life." Mikhail...
TOP V. WEEKEND PICKS (10/22-10/28)
1. Iris Bernblum: Palliative Sedation October 25, 4-7PM 4th Ward Project Space: 5338 S Kimbark Ave 2. HOLLY MURKERSON: rough edge October 23, 6-9PM 65GRAND: 3252 W North Ave 3. Kevin Glass: A Little Song in the Dark October 23, 6-9PM Flatline Gallery:...
TOP V. WEEKEND PICKS (10/15-10/21)
1. Doni Rochelle-Smith: Love Is on the Green Line: A Love Letter to Chicago October 17, 5-8PM Fourtune House: 4410 S Cottage Grove Ave 2. Dana DeGiulio & Matthew Girson: Paintings that have the look of paintings that are looked at October 17, 2-3PM...
TOP V. WEEKEND PICKS (10/8-10/14)
1. Yejia Sun and Jintong Yang: Museum of What Will Have Been October 10, 3-4PM The Labyrinth Club: 3658 N Pulaski Rd 2. Tara Sabini and Jeremy Plotkin Wong: Pleasure Spread October 9, 5-9PM Oliva Gallery: 3816 W Armitage Ave 3. In Full View October 10,...
Sub-Rural, #64 Pope.L
Pope.L’s lengthy and productive career, regrettably cut short in 2023, is catalogued as conceptualist, activist, poet, performer, conjurer, and quasi-ethnographer. The artist was a radical progeny of Fluxus with keen rebukes of institutions, cultural or...
TOP V. WEEKEND PICKS (10/1-10/7)
0. The Great Art Tailgate with Bad at Sports October 3, 11AM-3PM Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago — Anne & John Kern Terrace Garden: 220 E Chicago Ave 1. The Caliber of Risk October 1, 6-10PM No Nation Tangential Unspace Art Lab: 1542 N Milwaukee Ave Work...
TOP V. WEEKEND PICKS (9/24-9/30)
1. Rob Fox Rich: Sing About Me, I’m Dying of Thirst September 25, 5-9PM Fourtunehouse: 4410 S Cottage Grove Ave 2. Candace Hunter: Intentionality, 1960: Whose Dreams? September 24, 6-8PM Arts + Public Life: 301 E Garfield Blvd 3. Araceli Zuniga: Egg...
TOP V. WEEKEND PICKS (9/17-9/23)
1. Jesse Bond: OWN WHO YOU ARE: closing reception September 19, 6-9PM Sawhorse: 4222 W Fullerton Ave 2. Human-Nature September 17, 7-9PM The Franklin: 3522 W Franklin Blvd Artwork by: Andres L. Hernandez, Carlos Salazar Lermont, Hai-Wen Lin, Human Nature,...
TOP V. WEEKEND PICKS (9/10-9/16)
1. Laleh Motlagh: Rooted. Uprooted. September 12, 5-8PM SoNa Chicago Contemporary Art: 1527 N Ashland Ave 2. Reevah Agarwaal: Now I Braid My Own Hair September 12, 6-9PM Boundary: 2334 W 111th Pl 3. Robert Fields: EVERY NOW N’THEN . . . September 13,...