Elms Curating the heck out of Phila!

Elms Curating the heck out of Phila!

Good news for long time friend of Bad at Sports, Anthony Elms, he is heading to Philadelphia to curate for the Institute of Contemporary Art! We say Hell Yes! Anthony’s departure will be a major loss to this community but our loss, is there gain and it is nice...
Episode 321: Pablo Helguera

Episode 321: Pablo Helguera

http://traffic.libsyn.com/badatsports/Bad_at_Sports_Episode_321-Pablo_Helguera.mp3 download This week: More Open Engagement “SoPra”! This week we talk to Pablo Helguera! Pablo Helguera (Mexico City, 1971) is a New York based artist working with...
Michael Rea’s Wooden Wonderland for Nerds

Michael Rea’s Wooden Wonderland for Nerds

Guest Post by Jeriah Hildwine The Elmhurst Art Museum’s recent exhibition, “Michael Rea: Soirée” (July 8 – September 4, 2011) brought together a large grouping of this artist’s work.  I caught the show just a couple of days before it closed, and it...
Barbara Kasten Talks With Heidi Norton

Barbara Kasten Talks With Heidi Norton

GUEST POST BY HEIDI NORTON As a photography student of the mid/late 90’s, Barbara Kasten was of great significance to me. I lost track of her during the first decade of the millennium, as the contemporaries of the Becher’s school (Gursky, Ruff, Struth)...
Detroit: Now with people in it!

Detroit: Now with people in it!

For decades, Detroit has performed a facile and impoverished symbolic role in our regional and national consciousness. You know what the city represents almost by instinct: abandonment, danger, the slow yet violent death of once-mighty American industry — the...