by Abraham Ritchie | May 14, 2014 | Blog
The ironies were too many to pass up writing about Pedro Vélez for Bad at Sports. Most immediately because I am a white male (no matter how I try, will this article be an episode of what Vélez constantly points out, neocolonialism?) who readily acknowledges the...
by Thomas Friel | May 14, 2014 | Blog
“Hit me in the head hard enough to knock me over. This needs to look real, so I’d rather you hurt me then it look fake.” These were some of my first words to Chen Shen, then a 1st year graduate student in the Photo Department at Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield...
by Christopher Hudgens | May 13, 2014 | Podcast
http://traffic.libsyn.com/badatsports/Bad_at_Sports_Episode_454-Pulseishness.mp3 download This week: Duncan and Brian in Miami! They talk to the TM Sisters and Frank Webster. Frank Webster http://fwebster.com/ TM Sisters http://www.tmsisters.com/ UPDATE: Frank would...
by Guest | May 13, 2014 | Blog
Guest Post by Jessica Cochran This year’s Whitney Biennial curators Michelle Grabner, Anthony Elms and Stuart Comer cast the net so far beyond Chelsea that New York Magazine’s Jerry Saltz lamented “curators are so determined to stay pure, to avoid acknowledging the...
by Dana Bassett | May 12, 2014 | Blog
Disco Fever: Isa Genzken’s Retro-spective at the MCA Get down, get down You probably know of Isa Genzken as the iconic German artist famous for her wild sculpture assemblages. And you may have heard that her MCA exhibition which opened mid-April had a lot to do...
