Sub-Rural # 61, Obama Presidential Center
The Obama Presidential Center (OPC) opening today on its 19-acre southside campus designed by architects Billie Tsien and Todd Williams with landscape by Michael van Valkenburgh is an extraordinary architectural trek that’s gained much deserved attention but...
Episode 949: Hilde Lynn Helphenstein
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I don’t quite know how to start this. It feels important to repost this interview because of Hilde.
Hilde Lynn Helpenstein was a kickass human.
“Jerry Gogosian” was a lance aimed directly at our pretensions and self-importance. I, and all of us at Bad at Sports, will miss our fellow traveler.
Episode 948: Esther Park
In this episode of Bad at Sports, recorded at the tail end of a sun-soaked, sweat-drenched, and somehow still magical Miami Art Week, Duncan MacKenzie and Ryan Peter Miller sit down with curator and cultural programmer Esther Park—the force behind this year’s public programming at New Art Dealers Alliance (NADA).
Episode 947: Heather Hubbs
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Recorded live in the blazing Miami heat (seriously, surface-of-the-sun conditions), Duncan, Ryan, and crew sit down with Heather Hubbs, Executive Director of the New Art Dealers Alliance (NADA), for a conversation about art fairs, artist ecosystems, and what it actually means to build a sustainable contemporary art community.
Episode 946: Chris Succo
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Chris Succo joins Duncan MacKenzie, Ryan Peter Miller, and Tom Sanford in Miami for a conversation that slides easily from pronunciation jokes into a deep dive on abstraction, immediacy, and the quiet, often unspoken labor of sustaining an art practice.
Episode 945: Dreamsong Gallery
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Recorded in the sunburnt delirium of Miami, Duncan and crew stumble out of the Midwest and into the heat of the fairs, only to find a familiar sensibility in an unexpected place: Dreamsong. Rebecca Heidenberg joins the conversation to talk about building a gallery ecosystem in Minneapolis that resists isolation and instead fosters dialogue between regional artists and those working in larger art centers…
Sub-Rural, # 59, Messineo & Khoury at The Green Gallery
In “Turned,” two artists packed The Green Gallery with optical and technologically interactive bodies of work prompting critical spaces between sculpture, painting and craft. The gallery’s complex trapezoidal floor-plan rejects the ordinary architecture of traditional...
TOP V. WEEKEND PICKS (4/30-5/6)
1. Stacey Lee Gee: ROTATOR May 1, 6-9PM Ignition project space: 3839 W. Grand Ave 2. Che Pai: Clouding a Thousand Dreams ???? April 30, 5:30-8:30PM neomediapolis: Studio 473, 2233 S Throop St 3. Jesse Ly: try, take time – take time, try May 1,...
TOP V. WEEKEND PICKS (4/9-4/15)
1. Paths for the Study of Contingent Dimensions April 17, 6-9PM Flatline Gallery: 1925 N Milwaukee Ave Work by: Vivien Adamian, J. Grace Giordano, Ian James, Tong Pan, and Deb Sokolow 2. One’s Position (and a route) April 17, 6-9PM Roman Susan at Experimental...
TOP V FROM EXPO CHICAGO 2026
Welcome to this week’s TOP V from EXPO CHICAGO at Navy Pier. Also, don’t forget to check out this week’s TOP V for a selection of provocative programs around Chicago this weekend. 1. GEARY Booth 412 Work by: Ethan Greenbaum and Sun You 2. Bockley Gallery Booth...
TOP V. WEEKEND PICKS (4/9-4/15)
1. Ceninye Harris: Configurations of the Mutable Self April 9, 6-9PM Caira Moreira Projects: 2147 S Lumber St 508b 2. Brooke Raven: TAILGATER April 10, 6-9PM crosswalk: 1856 N Richmond St 3. ASMA: Dramatic Dinosaur April 11, 2-5PM Prairie: 2055 W Cermak...
Sub-Rural, #58, Carmon Colangelo
This 2021 quote below from Carmon Colangelo cites a moment in his 20-year survey opening this month at Bruno David Gallery in St. Louis. The show coincides with the final semester of the artist’s 20 years as Dean of The Sam Fox School of Design and Visual Arts at...
TOP V. WEEKEND PICKS (4/2-4/8)
1. Noelle Africh: Signal April 4, 6-9PM Twelve Ten Gallery: 1104 W Thorndale Ave 2. Titus Wonsey: WADING April 3, 6-9PM ARTRUSS: 4553 W Diversey Ave 3. Lindsey Kircher: Girl Talk April 3, 6-8PM Oliva Gallery: 3816 W Armitage Ave 4....
TOP V. WEEKEND PICKS (3/26-4/1)
1. Jess Atieno: Sightlines, Ghosts, and Other Stories of the Impossible March 26, 6-8PM Arts + Public Life: 301 E Garfield Blvd 2. Amy Pearl Lang: CASTLE March 28, 6-9PM SAWHORSE: 4222 W Fullerton Ave 3. Cheryl Pope: ALL THERE IS March 28, 4-7PM...
TOP V. WEEKEND PICKS (3/19-3/25)
1. Emma Bergman: For the World to Come March 20, 6-10PM Patient Info: 902 N Western Ave 2. Hunter Whitaker-Morrow and Johan Samboní: Low Resolution: Can’t See You March 20, 6-9PM ACRE Projects: 2921 N Clark St 3. No One Held To Answer March 21, 6-10PM...