Antoine Catala’s “Couple in a Garden”

Antoine Catala’s “Couple in a Garden”

Tony Wight Gallery has become one of a handful of go-to galleries in Chicago where I consistently encounter paintings that get me to think more deeply about, well, painting. I hadn’t given that same level of consideration to video art in awhile, at least until...
Banff: The Residency

Banff: The Residency

Want to keep up with Bad at Sports’ own Duncan MacKenzie and Christian Kuras (who co-interviewed Mark Francis on Episode 197) on their artists-in-residential adventures at The Banff Center? Well, you can, you can. They’re blogging all about it here, and if...
Chicago Pocket Garden

Chicago Pocket Garden

Seen enroute to 65 Grand this weekend.  This is one of the many great things about summer in Chicago. You can see these kinds of ad-hoc gardens everywhere, if you look for them. Coincidentally, this weekend I also came across a book of photographs by Brad Temkin...
Friday’s Link Roundup

Friday’s Link Roundup

I don’t know about you but I am really stoked that this week is over. On this week’s round up we check out the Somali pirates business model, what it is like to suffer from first person shooter disease, and yet another art gallery is shutting it’s...
Top 6!

Top 6!

Alright, so last week was slow. This week is quite the opposite. There are a bunch of things going on. Because of that, I have decided, in response to my Top 4 of last week, to do a Top 6 this week. Don’t like it, well, then you can just get out! For the rest of...