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...
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.
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.
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...
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...