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...
Episode 936: Damon Locks
Locks’ exhibition operates as a split composition: the back gallery leans into layered, exploratory collage rooted in his teaching experience with Prison + Neighborhood Arts/Education Project at Stateville Correctional Center, while the front gallery delivers sharper, declarative works built around text and figuration.
The conversation frames this as a kind of A-side / B-side logic, with one space functioning like improvisational jazz and the other like a stripped-down, urgent punk track. Locks pushes back on easy analogies, but embraces the underlying idea: that both bodies of work are driven by different modes of attention and response.
Episode 935: Chicago Critics Roundtable
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Guests: Annette LePique, Curtis Anthony Bozif, Pia Singh, Gareth Kaye
Recorded with the support of Columbia College Chicago – Colum.edu
What happens when you gather a room full of critics in a moment when criticism itself feels both endangered and newly alive? In this long-awaited return to the Chicago Critics Roundtable, Duncan sits down with a new multi-hyphenate crew of writers, curators, artists, and exhibition-makers to unpack the shifting role of criticism in a fractured “art ecology.”
Episode 934: John Stezaker
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working with found imagery, particularly Victorian-era topographical prints and film stills, and how his recent shift into landscape collage emerged during lockdown while living on the coast. What begins as a search for calm quickly mutates into something more unstable, even apocalyptic, mirroring broader cultural and political upheavals.
Episode 933: Kate Sierzputowski and EXPO Chicago 2026
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This week on Bad at Sports, Duncan MacKenzie and Brian Andrews sit down with Kate Sierzputowski to talk about the evolving identity of EXPO Chicago under Frieze and what 2026 signals for the fair, the city, and the Midwest at large.
Episode 932: Michi Meko
Recorded at the Art Papers Fire Ecology Symposium, Atlanta
Atlanta artist Michi Meko joins Duncan MacKenzie and Brian Andrews during Art Papers’ symposium weekend for a wide-ranging conversation that moves from southern port cities and landscape painting to pandemic solitude, mental health, and the strange spiritual work of making art.
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...
TOP V. WEEKEND PICKS (3/19-3/25)
1. Emma Bergman: For the World to Come March 20, 6-10PM Patient Info: 902 N Western Ave 2. Hunter Whitaker-Morrow and Johan Samboní: Low Resolution: Can’t See You March 20, 6-9PM ACRE Projects: 2921 N Clark St 3. No One Held To Answer March 21, 6-10PM...
TOP V. WEEKEND PICKS (3/12-3/18)
1. Waves: Up From Here March 14, 12-3PM Beverly Phono Mart: 1802 W 103rd St Work by: Braimah Lawal, Cydney M. Lewis, Fontaine Scarelli, Ish Muhammad, Jamiah Calvin, Ravi Arupa and Sally Ko. Curated by Kimberly Leja Atwood 2. Nate Millstein: Duplexes March 12,...
TOP V. WEEKEND PICKS (3/5-3/11)
1. Lya Finston: A Lesser Light March 6, 5-8PM ARC Gallery: 1463 W Chicago Ave 2. Araceli Zuniga: Fair Play March 6, 6-9PM crosswalk: 1856 N Richmond St 3. Alice Tippit: Rose Obsolete March 5, 6-8PM DePaul Art Museum: 935 W Fullerton Ave 4. MMM…....
Sub-Rural, #57 Nathaniel Stern and Sasha Stiles
Nathaniel Stern and Sasha Stiles’ “Generation to Generation, Conversing with Kindred Technologies” exhibition in the Kenilworth Gallery at the University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee outlines a project that technically, philosophically, and socially describes our place...