Episode 901: Florencia Rodriguez and CAB 6
In this episode, we sit down with architect, editor, and curator Florencia Rodriguez, Artistic Director of the Chicago Architecture Biennial (CAB) 6. We dig into the ideas shaping this year’s edition—titled “Shift: Architecture in Times of Radical Change”—and her approach to curating a biennial that centers transformation, public space, and critical imagination.
Sub-Rural #49, Caroline Kent
Art language and its framing is an asymmetric consolidation between principal hemispheric archives and their constituent artists and crafters. Place introduces alternative possibilities for visual fluency and it sanctions regional myths, schedules, and texts. Official...
Episode 896: Beth Hetland and Kyle O’Connell
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In the final episode recorded live from Stitch and Staple: The Artist Book Fair, we’re thrilled to sit down with two incredible comic creators, Beth Hetland and Kyle O’Connell. This conversation dives deep into the world of comics and graphic narratives, with Hetland and O’Connell offering insights into their creative collaborations and shared comic interests.
Episode 895: Emma Bergman
In this episode, Bad at Sports welcomes artist, writer, and thinker Emma Bergman to discuss a range of fascinating topics that blend the personal, the theoretical, and the speculative.
Episode 894: Hoof Print Press & Immaterial Publications
In this episode, Bad at Sports dives into the world of independent publishing, printmaking, and the intersections of art, academia, and production with two innovative presses pushing the boundaries of their respective fields, Hoof Print Press & Immaterial Books.
Episode 893: Cecilia Beaven
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In this episode, we sit down with Cecilia Beaven, a dynamic Mexican-born artist, muralist, and illustrator whose work bridges the worlds of fine art and public spaces. Beaven’s pieces have graced both urban environments and galleries, transforming her surroundings with a unique blend of surrealism, humor, and critical commentary. Her work explores themes of myth, identity, and the fantastical, reflecting on the human experience through vibrant, intricate visual narratives.
Episode 892: Process Process and Bench Press
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Strap in, print nerds, because this week we’re coming to you live from the wild and inky trenches of the Staple and Stitch Artist Book Fair at 21C Chicago!
TOP V. WEEKEND PICKS (3/26-4/2)
1. Helen Geglio & Anders Zanichkowsky: GUARDIAN THREADS March 28, 6-9PM Epiphany Center for the Arts: 201 S Ashland Ave 2. Anke Loh: RenaisSENSES March 28, 6-8PM International Museum of Surgical Science: 1524 N Lake Shore Dr 3. Stacy Jo Scott: Writ...
TOP V. WEEKEND PICKS (3/20-3/26)
1. Ruby Que and Raychel Carrión: It Comes to Pass March 23, 6-9PM Switch-Hook Projects: 3216 W Augusta Blvd, Chicago 2. Isaac Díaz: Cuscatlismo March 21, 6-9PM KIOSK: 3054 N Sheffield Ave 3. Erol Scott Harris: Harlequin Choreographies March 22, 12-3PM...
TOP V. WEEKEND PICKS (3/6-3/12)
1. Alana Ferguson: Thin Outer Layer March 7, 6-10PM Patient Info: 902 N Western Ave 2. Lehna Huie: In Remembrance of Us March 6, 6-9PM ACRE Projects: 2921 N Clark St 3. Nick D’Alessandro and Kai Jenrette: Sprocket March 8, 6-9PM LVL3: 1542 N Milwaukee...
Sub-Rural #47 Dieter Roth at the MCA
The Museum of Contemporary Art is currently exhibiting Dieter Roth’s “Balabild 5” in the McCormick Tribune Gallery. The assemblage/installation is a remarkable example of radical midcentury anti-aesthetics by one of the century’s phenomenal Neo-Dada polymaths, tat...
TOP V. WEEKEND PICKS (2/27-3/5)
1. Mariel Harari: The possibility of an expanse and what interrupts it February 28, 6-9PM Co-Prosperity: 3219 S Morgan St 2. Seonyoung Lee: Woven Emotions February 28, 5-9PM Art City: 1400 N Halsted St 3. Kalyn Fay Barnoski and Haley Greenfeather...
TOP V. WEEKEND PICKS (2/20-2/26)
1. Delisha McKinney: The Colorful Chaos February 21, 6-9PM Elephant Room Gallery: 704 S Wabash Ave 2. Light Preserver February 21, 6-9PM Joy Machine: 4148 N Elston Ave Work by: Moises Salazar, David Heo, Liz Flores, Peter Frederiksen, Danym Kwon, Lisa Congdon,...
TOP V. WEEKEND PICKS (2/13-2/19)
1. Palak Patel: Throw down February 15, 6-9PM Free Range: 3257 W Lawrence Ave 2. Melissa Grace Kreider: Worthy February 14, 5-9PM The Center for Mad Culture: 410 S Michigan Ave, Suite 419 3. VESNA JOVANOVIC: FLOSS WAGON February 15, 2-5PM Compound...
TOP V. WEEKEND PICKS (2/6-2/12)
1. chlee: OF GIRLS AND MEN February 7, 5:30-7PM Fourth Presbyterian Church: 126 E Chestnut St Work by: Candace Hunter (chlee). Curated by Monica J. Brown 2. Hal Shipman: Forbidden Love at the Desert’s Edge February 8, 5-7PM Gerber/Hart Library & Archives:...
Sub-Rural #46, Guy Whitney, 1949 – 2025
Guy Whitney, artist, School of the Art Institute graduate, founding member of N.A.M.E. gallery, skillful abstractionist, curator, and art handler passed away last week. Whitney was a graduate student at an opportune time in the SAIC’s history when the painting...