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We might be bad at sports, but we’re good at supports! Today we bring you two noble causes from the artists and organizations that keep Chicago’s Art heart beating: In order to keep Pro-Choice alive in Illinois, Weinberg/Newton Gallery is raising money through a...
Episode 550: Zachary Dodson

Episode 550: Zachary Dodson

http://traffic.libsyn.com/badatsports/Bad_at_Sports_Episode_550_Zachary_Dodson.mp3 download This week we check in with Zachary Dodson about all things Scandinavian, Featherproof Press, and BATS OF THE REPUBLIC. From his website… Zach Dodson is a book designer...
Interview with Michael Kaufmann: The Museum of Psychphonics

Interview with Michael Kaufmann: The Museum of Psychphonics

Guest post by Michael Milano. Located inside the Joyful Noise Record Store in Indianapolis, The Museum of Psychphonics is billed as “the spiritual sibling of the 24-Hour Church of Elvis, the Museum of Jurassic Technology, Marvin Johnson’s Gourd Museum, House on the...
Episode 549: James Wines SITE Architect

Episode 549: James Wines SITE Architect


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Low and behold, in conjunction with Rhona Hoffman and on the eve of the 2015 Chicago Architectural Biennial we had a once in a life time opportunity to sit down and speak with James Wines of SITE. An architect so radical his buildings have a power quite unlike most contemporary architects, they don’t bend us with spectacle, physicality, or industry, they delight us with wit and whimsy. They open our eyes to a magic in the everyday or in the second glance you have to give to a building telling you the story of its demise.

Review: “Mastry” Kerry James Marshall

Review: “Mastry” Kerry James Marshall

Guest post by Noah Hanna Kerry James Marshall: Mastry; the first major museum retrospective of the artist’s work opened on  April 23rd at the Museum of Contemporary Art. Organized collaboratively between the MCA, The Met, and LAMOCA, the exhibition gathered national...