Episode 943: Nanako Kono and Olivia Zubko
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From the humid chaos of Miami Art Week, Bad at Sports drops into the garden at NADA for a conversation with two artists from Western Exhibitions: Nanako Kono and Olivia Zubkov. A loose, funny, and surprisingly thoughtful discussion about painting that isn’t painting, sculpture that remembers your body, and bathrooms as sites of intimacy, memory, and quiet surveillance.
TOP V. WEEKEND PICKS (5/7-5/13)
1. Adehle Daley & Tatiana Sky: After we let go May 8, 6-9PM crosswalk: 1856 N Richmond St 2. Side by Side: Color and Textiles May 7, 4:30-6:30PM CWAC Exhibitions: 5540 S Greenwood Ave Work by: Anna Kuczma, Lialia Kuchma, Liz Barr, Charlie Kolodziej, and...
Episode 930: Antonio Darden
Recorded in Atlanta during the Art Papers symposium: Fire Ecology
Artist Antonio Darden joins Duncan MacKenzie and Brian Andrews in Atlanta, where the conversation opens with one of the most arresting images in Darden’s recent work: an alien laid out on an autopsy table. What begins as a discussion of a strange installation quickly unfolds into a deeply personal exploration of grief, memory, and the ways artists translate trauma into form.
Episode 929: Dan Attoe
Recorded on the fly during art fair week, live at NADA, this conversation with Dan Attoe moves from metal-kid origin stories to Zen meditation, daily practice, tattooing, landscape painting, and the unexpected turn toward writing a horror novel.
Episode 928: Robert Burnier
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Robert Burnier joins Duncan MacKenzie and Brian Andrews for a wide-ranging conversation that moves between sculpture, drawing, divination systems, urban planning, Mondrian, Agnes Martin, and the politics of place.
Episode 927: Alfred Steiner
Alfred Steiner joins Bad at Sports live from Miami, arriving by bicycle from the beach in full cowboy boots and jeans, already soaked through and fully inside the psychic weather of art fair week. A painter, conceptual artist, and practicing intellectual property lawyer, Steiner brings a rare combination of market fluency, legal clarity, and genuine artistic skepticism to a conversation that moves easily between booths, blockchain, copyright law, and the unwritten rules that quietly govern the art world.
Episode 926: Gabriel Barcia-Colombo
Gabriel Barcia-Colombo, Recorded at the Stony Island Arts Bank during the Chicago Architecture Biennial
Gabriel Barcia-Colombo joins Bad at Sports from a rain-soaked tailgate outside the Stony Island Arts Bank, in the middle of Chicago Architecture Biennial programming and an open-hours weekend that turns the city into both subject and stage. A media artist whose work consistently centers human presence inside technological systems, Barcia-Colombo is in Chicago to present Media Stream, a large-scale public artwork that brings the people of Chicago directly onto the architecture they move through every day.
TOP V. WEEKEND PICKS (12/4-12/10)
1.Brick Cassidy & Aubrey LaDuke: In Most Cases, More December 5, 6-9PM Point Blank: 3317 W Fullerton Ave, 2. Alexander Breus & Elijah Ross: Please Set Me At Ease December 6, 6-9PM RUPCORP: 3012 S Archer Ave 3. Bria Bridges: COMMON THREADS...
Sub-Rural # 54, “Channeling” at the MoCP
A finely tuned exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Photography calls attention to issues of media, social practice, fuzzy logic, and humanistic philosophy’s influence on modern and contemporary art reception. Artist curators Joan Giroux and Alice Maude-Roxby have...
TOP V. WEEKEND PICKS (11/20-11/26)
1. Christian Ulloa: [GLASS SHATTERS] November 21, 7-10PM Crosswalk: 1856 N Richmond St 2. Ángela Ferrari: They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? November 22, 5PM Povos West Town: 1541 W Chicago Ave 3. Linye Jiang and Yiwei Leo Wang: Fruity Night November 21,...
TOP V. WEEKEND PICKS (11/13-11/19)
1. Sarah Whyte: And The Spaces Between November 14, 7-10PM Chicago Art Department: 1926 S Halsted St 2. Bri Beck: [From-Within] November 14, 5-9PM The Center for Mad Culture: 410 S Michigan Ave, Suite 419 3. Gudunk! TOSSAROSE Fourth Petal November 14,...
TOP V. WEEKEND PICKS (11/6-12)
1. Carlos Salazar-Lermont: Fixing the Baroque November 7, 6-9PM ACRE Projects: 2921 N. Clark St 2. Alison Chen: The Tenderness of Tides November 7, 6-9PM Filter Space: 1821 W Hubbard St, Suite 207 3. POST POST POST POST, POST, POST POST! POST! POST!...
Sub-Rural #54, Punked Up Milwaukee
The “Gig’s Up: 50 Years of Milwaukee Punk Posters” exhibition at Real Tinsel Gallery argues zealously for more critical attention to the era of Milwaukee’s alternative rock foundations shown in its vast promotional optic co-narrative. If you’re already familiar with...
TOP V. WEEKEND PICKS (10/30-11/5)
1. Félix Mirel: The Body is Chaos. November 1, 6-10PM SPACE 01: 4850 W Bloomingdale Ave 2. Stuffed November 1, 4-6PM Co-Prosperity: 3219 S Morgan St Work by: Jesse Egner, Ren Buchness, Tore Hallas, BOARLORD, Zoë Schneider, Jaq Garcia 3. Judith Brotman:...
TOP V. WEEKEND PICKS (10/23-10/29)
1. Aya Nakamura: Parts, Places October 26, 4-7PM 4th Ward Project Space: 5338 S Kimbark Ave 2. Chaosophy October 25, 8:30-11PM Site/less: 1250 W Augusta Blvd Work by: Verónica Casado Hernández, Aza Greenlee, Radu Nistoroiu, and Unenthused Groupie 3. In...
TOP V. WEEKEND PICKS (10/16-10/22)
1. Flor Flores: mirror moment October 16, 5-7PM Ralph Arnold Gallery: 1131 W Sheridan Rd 2. Chemical X October 18, 6-10PM Evoke Gallery: 3040 N Central Ave Work by: abrina Zhao, Brooke Raven, Zoë Chen, Sade Coffman, Isaiah Lee, Dante Moore, Xavier Potts, ARDEN,...