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- Bad at Sports Episode 150: Rene?de Guzman
(39mb)
Sun, 13 Jul 2008 14:19:00 GMT Author: badatsports@gmail.com
Renà de Guzman
Recorded live in front of a studio audience at Triple Base Gallery on July 10th, 2008 as a part of the exhibition "Open for Business". In this raw interview Brian and Patricia talk to Renà de Guzman about the cultural origins of art, how museums can be relevant in the 21st century, and Oakland's future as an art center.
Renà de Guzman is the senior curator of art at the Oakland Museum of California. Previously, he was the director of visual arts at San Francisco's Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (YBCA). - Bad at Sports Episode 149: Elkins on the Stone Summer Theory Institute (30mb)
Sun, 6 Jul 2008 17:09:00 GMT Author: badatsports@gmail.com
This week: First we had James Elkins and the raiders of the lost ark, then James Elkins and the temple of doom, next James Elkins and the last crusadeâ.now.Stone Summer Theory Institute at SAIC: What Is an Image?
From July 13-19, the second annual Stone Summer Theory Institute at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago will present a forum for some of the world's foremost art theoreticians to address unsolved issues in the field.
This year's Institute is focused on three fundamental questions: What is the nature of the visual? What are images? What are pictures?
A combination of public events and private discussions, the Summer Theory Institute invites fifteen young scholars to explore issues in art conceptualization with renowned international scholars, artists, and authors, this year including Gottfried Boehm, W.J.T. Mitchell, Jacqueline Lichtenstein, and Marie-Jose Mondzain.ALSO: WEST COAST PEOPLE READ AND OBEY!
In conjunction with âOpen for Businessâ, Brian and Patrica will interview Renà de Guzman live in public at Triple Base Gallery on Thursday, July 10th at 5:00 PM. The raw interview will then be posted to the site as that weekâs show.
Renà de Guzman is the senior curator of art at the Oakland Museum of California. Previously, he was the director of visual arts at
Go. Go now.
- Bad at Sports Episode 148: Mary Rachel Fanning/ Diane Grams (38mb)
Sun, 29 Jun 2008 18:20:00 GMT Author: badatsports@gmail.com
This week:
First, some generally embarrassing banter,
Second, Terri and Serena interview artist Mary Rachel Fanning about her many and varied projects.
Third,
Next, more silliness in the closing, and then, you sit and wait until next Sunday where we send more wackiness your way.
- Bad at Sports Episode 147: Pamela Fraser and Randall Szott (36mb)
Sun, 22 Jun 2008 13:24:00 GMT Author: badatsports@gmail.com
This week Duncan and Richard are joined by guest host Tony Tasset to talk to Pamela Fraser and Randall Szott about their work, arguing and their project he said-she said.
From their web site: http://hesaid-shesaid.us
he said-she said is an exhibition and event series held in the home of Pamela Fraser and Randall Szott. They will take turns presenting what amounts to an ongoing conversation about art and culture - Ms. Fraser presenting art and artists, and Mr. Szott sharing the activities of people who work in other contexts. Together they hope to offer up a fun and thoughtful take on current ideas in art and life.
Richard makes Duncan feel bad. Much mirth is had by all. - Bad at Sports Episode 146: Art Basel (36mb)
Sun, 15 Jun 2008 01:31:00 GMT Author: badatsports@gmail.com
A Bad at Sports
The intro and outro are extra creepy this week. Highlights(?) include
After Richard and Duncan are done making a mess of things, the real pros come in and present a fantastic report from
Lamis El Farra, emerging artist, and the EuroShark Mark Staff Brandl, seemingly perennially emerging black sheep artist, traverse and discuss the entirety of the King of Art Fairs, Art Basel. Yes: the Fair Itself, Art Statements, Art Unlimited, Scope, and the Solo Project. They only missed Liste and Print Basel. Sorry, but all the rest was already enough. Of course they were at the VIP opening (ahem) and managed to talk to more people than you can shake a stick at: artists, gallerists, museum directors, curators, critics, art magazine editors, fair organizers, all the hangers-on, âerâ, important elements of the international artworld.
- Bad at Sports Episode 145: Proximity Magazine/ Spudnik Press (33mb)
Sun, 8 Jun 2008 17:41:00 GMT Author: badatsports@gmail.com
This Week: Duncan and Amanda (from the Amanda Browder Show) talk to Rachel and Ed âEdmarâ Marszewski about Proximity Magazine, fried chicken meals, sperm banks and much more. Max interrupts.
Also, Philip Vvon Zweck talks to Angee Lennard about Spudnik Press! Be sure to check out their website for info on classes.
Sadly the excellent Cheryl Donegan exhibition at He Said-She Said has closed, but be sure to check out the spaceâs website at http://hesaid-shesaid.us.
This episode is Mohan free. No Mohans were harmed in the making of this episode. - Bad at Sports Episode 144: Lisa Wainwright on Robert Rauschenberg (31mb)
Sun, 1 Jun 2008 16:02:00 GMT Author: badatsports@gmail.com
Robert Rauschenberg passed away on May 12, 2008 at age 82. The Art Institute of Chicago's own Rauscheberg expert Lisa Wainwright joins us to discuss his life and legacy.
- Bad at Sports Episode 143: Roundtable fun! (33mb)
Sun, 25 May 2008 16:41:00 GMT Author: badatsports@gmail.comWho is the hell doesnât know what Highlander is? For shame.
This week: Duncan, and a panel of superstar critical thinkers, Lori Waxman, Kathryn Hixson and James Yood discuss, Highlander, Artropolopolopolis, Robert Storr vs. the universe, and regionalism in an action packed, smack down of art critical smartness.
To digress for a moment, in googling everyoneâs name to minimize errors I was astonished to find that there once was a Chicago Art Critics Association. Sadly their website was last updated in 2006. It seems to have died of disinterest. I wonder if the meetings entailed âBeat-itâ style knife fights, alas Bad at Sports missed the boat there.
Only
Joseph Mohan. There
- Bad at Sports Episode 142:Three for one! (49mb)
Sun, 18 May 2008 23:39:00 GMT Author: badatsports@gmail.comWTF? this weeks show is as long as your arm and brimming with what you need to
know about the art world around you...
It's a three shows for the price of one deal!!!
First
what business they have publishing a magazine.
Next,Terri and Serena talk to David Adjaye and Cydney Payton at The Museum of Contemporary Art:
and figure out how you go about building a museum.
As if that was not enough,
how important it is to be a member of a community.
The show closes with a tribute to the Birthday of Joseph Mohan. - Bad at Sports Episode 141:Ryan McGinley/Chris Perez (30mb)
Mon, 12 May 2008 00:06:00 GMT Author: badatsports@gmail.comThis week the West Coast Crew heads down to Ratio3 to talk to Ryan McGinley and gallerist Chris Perez.
Ryan McGinley makes large-scale color photographs of nudes in abstracted natural landscapes. With his subjects as willing collaborators, he used photography to break down barriers between public and private lives. Drawn from skateboarding, music, graffiti and gay subcultures, his models perform for the camera and expose themselves with complete self-awareness. McGinley's more recent work signals a departure from the urban youth culture images for which he is well known â over the past few summers he has been working almost exclusively in natural settings in the American west. At 24, he was the youngest artist to have a solo show at the Whitney Museum of American Art. He has also had solo exhibitions at PS1 and in Spain at the MUSAC in Leon. In 2007 he was awarded the Young Photographer Infinity award by the - Bad at Sports Episode 140: Tony Matelli (25mb)
Sun, 4 May 2008 13:09:00 GMT Author: badatsports@gmail.com
THIS WEEK IT'S THE AMANDA BROWDER SHOW!!! GUEST STARRING TONY MATELLI!!!
Tony Matelli has always been interested in the underdog. He has become well known for his hyper-realistic sculptures often depicting characters and things just barely getting by; things nearly dead, hopelessly lost or otherwise totally unwanted. These sculptures serve as metaphors for our own social malaise and our general struggle for survival. They mimic inner states of desolation, panic, ambivalence and despair; frequent conditions associated with trying to locate ones self within our social world.Tony Matelli has exhibited extensively in the
Also Duncan tries out his acting chops, with mixed results.
- Bad at Sports Episode 139: Artropolis (29mb)
Sat, 26 Apr 2008 03:47:00 GMT Author: badatsports@gmail.com
In 1994 Paul Morris, Matthew Marks, Pat Hearn and Colin De Land had a vision. That vision was that New York City would have an art fair. What began as the Gramercy International Contemporary Art Fair has become the the Armory fair, the jewel in the art fair empire the Merchandise Mart has amassed over the last 3 years; Art Chicago, The Armory, Art Toronto, Volta Basel, Next, and Volta NYC.
This week, Paul "the 'marts Art Czar" Morris and Tony "Boss of Art Chicago" Karman break down why the Art Fair future is the future. Kathryn Born and Duncan MacKenzie listen with slack jaws and open minds.
The weird thing that happened is that Duncan actually started to get behind Art Chicago and the 'marts future in the Art Business? WTF? Did he drink the Kool Aid? Was he bought off? Or is there reason to believe? Listen and find out... - Bad at Sports Episode 138: Next Art Fair (27mb)
Sun, 20 Apr 2008 16:22:00 GMT Author: badatsports@gmail.comThe Bad at Sports Art Explosion rolls on.
This week: Duncan and Britton Bertran talk to Kavi Gupta and Christian Viveros-Faune from Next Art Fair.Much fun is had by all.
- Bad at Sports Episode 137: New York Art Fair Madness (29mb)
Sun, 13 Apr 2008 22:56:00 GMT Author: badatsports@gmail.com
This week, the New York Art Fair explosion.
John Waters v. Amanda Browder, Amanda and Tom get kicked out of Armory, Christopher Hudgens on mic. WHAT MORE DO YOU NEED!!!
Amanda and Tom talk to just about everyone, well not really, but they do talk to loads of interesting collectors, gallerists, artists, Europeans, and other assorted folk as they barnstorm the fairs.
And the return of Amanda's Mom wisecracks, no not really, but this show has an intro guaranteed to piss of Brian and Marc. - Bad at Sports Episode 136: Ampersand International (56mb)
Sun, 6 Apr 2008 19:38:00 GMT
Spring break 2008 sweeps across Chicago with a vengeance. The freshly brewed warm weather brings Brian back to the midwest to help Duncan with hosting duties.
This week Marc and Brian head down to Ampersand International Arts to check out "How Fast is your World Changing". They talk with curator/artist Lori Gordon as well as participating artists Hope Hilton and Markuz Wernli-Saito about lying to curators and the strange effects of silence.
Next week: Bad at sports takes on the Armory in NYC... - Bad at Sports Episode 135: Melanie Schiff (33mb)
Sun, 30 Mar 2008 04:53:00 GMT Author: badatsports@gmail.com
Local up and coming Chicago Art starlet Melanie Schiff is quizzed about what it is like to be curated into the 2008 Whitney Biennial, her work and WTF is up with contemporary Photography. Oak Park correspondent/Chicago Art Star Tony Tasset co-hosts. - Bad at Sports Episode 134: Tony Wight and John Phillips (31mb)
Sun, 23 Mar 2008 06:02:00 GMT Author: badatsports@gmail.com
This week Caleb Lyons, one of the directors at Chicago curious space "Old Gold," drops in to interview John Phillips and Tony Wight about the current changes at Bodybuilder and Sportsman/Tony Wight Gallery, John and Caleb's exhibitions, contemporary abstract painting, and we once again tackle the topic of what is a hipster?.
Where is Richard? - Bad at Sports Episode 133: Boston AICA (41mb)
Mon, 17 Mar 2008 02:06:00 GMT
Sorry. We were a little slow due to power outages and the mediocre AT&T.
Episode:
Art Critic Greg Cook (The Boston Globe, The Boston Phoenix) joins Matt
Nash, James Nadeau and Christian Holland of Big RED & Shiny to discuss
the 2008 AICA New England Awards. Using the list of winners as a
starting point, they discuss the state of the arts in New England and
what they thought was great, mediocre and terrible. Disappointment in
the new Institute of Contemporary Art is expressed; AICA is
scrutinized; and conclusions are elusive.
And the magic of Mike Benedetto.
Links:
bigredandshiny.com
gregcookland.com/journal
aicausa.org - Bad at Sports Episode 132: Review-arama: SF vs. Chi - a showdown - a throw down (42mb)
Sun, 9 Mar 2008 18:03:00 GMT Author: badatsports@gmail.com
This week the show is Co-hosted by Lori Waxman, recorded live in coffee shop on a Saturday night during dinner. She and Duncan check out what is going on in the Chicago Alternative spaces. San Francisco beats down Eli Broad/LACMA and it turns out Marc LeBlanc is part of the oppressive white male hegemony. Ah, Bad at Sports is "sweet as pie." Let the hate mail flow freely. - Bad at Sports Episode 131: Shaun O'Dell (30mb)
Sun, 2 Mar 2008 03:56:00 GMT Author: badatsports@gmail.com
This week, Amanda and Tom Sanford talk to Shaun OâDell and Emily Prince about Shaunâs show âWe Remember the Sunâ? at the Susan Inglett Gallery.
SHAUN OâDELL
We Remember the Sun
Susan Inglett Gallery
522 W. 24 St.
February 15th - March 15th
- Bad at Sports Episode 130: Stephanie Smith-Adaptation (26mb)
Sun, 24 Feb 2008 18:36:00 GMT Author: badatsports@gmail.com
This week Duncan and the always delightful Jeff Ward talk to Stephanie Smith, the Director of Collections and Exhibitions and Curator of Contemporary Art at the
Bad at Sports is officially panhandling for a used PC laptop as a donation, or a reasonably priced sale, to us. The IBM T-42 that has handled the last 130+ shows is fatally ill and needs replacement pronto. Please e-mail us at badatsports@gmail.com if you have something fairly recent laying about you would like to get off of your hands! Thanks.
Holy guacamole am I sick this week, yuck. One of the joys of having a child in daycare.
- Bad at Sports Episode 129: Hou Hanru (36mb)
Sat, 16 Feb 2008 22:24:00 GMT Author: badatsports@gmail.com
This week Brian, Marc, and Patrica sit down with Hou Hanru for a conversation over wine and olives. Currently the Director of Exhibitions and Public Programs at SFAI, Hanru has curated a number of major international exhibitions including the Istanbul Biennale, Guangzhou Triennale, and 50th Venice Biennale. The interview spans from Hanru's education in china after the cultural revolution, globalism, principles of self organization, and what its like to curate both internationally and locally.
- Bad at Sports Episode 128: Philip von Zweck on New Orleans (36mb)
Sun, 10 Feb 2008 18:02:00 GMT Author: badatsports@gmail.com
Ok, so you have listened to our BS for 127 episodes or so, so this week we introduce an exciting new program for BAS. We will from time to time invite guest curators on to put together an episode of Bad at Sports. This week, Artist, Curator, Musician, Gallerist, Radio Host and recipient of the 2007 Richard H. Driehaus Foundation grant, Philip von Zweck does a show focused on the area from whence he came, New Orleans.
Philip von Zweck grew up in Slidell Louisiana, a suburb of New Orleans that was also devastated by Katrina. In January he made his first trip back since the storm and took along a recorder for Bad at Sports to find out whatâs going on in New Orleans Art and whatâs up with Prospect.1, the first New Orleans Biennial coming this fall. Along the way he spoke with Chris Deris, a high school friend (BFA, Atlanta College of Art; MFA, RISD) who now teaches Sculpture at Loyola University; New Orleans artist Blake Boyd; Odgen Museum of Southern Art Curator David Houston; and Cynthia Scott, an MFA student at Tulane and one of the organizers of forthcoming artist initiatives responding to Prospect.1. - Bad at Sports Episode 127: Tom Sanford (28mb)
Sat, 2 Feb 2008 23:19:00 GMT Author: badatsports@gmail.com
Amanda interviews artist and master of "celebutard portraiture" Tom Sanford. (our apologies to the mis-spelling of Tom's name on the MP3, BAS's shit-togetherness shines through).
Duncan bitches a bit more about the Art Institute.
And can we have a moment of silence for Mort Garson, please. - Bad at Sports Episode 126: Meszmer/Müller and Book Review (37mb)
Sun, 27 Jan 2008 03:50:00 GMT Author: badatsports@gmail.com
The Central European Bureau, âEuroSharkâ? Mark Staff Brandl and his new partner Lamis El Farra interview Alex Meszmer of the art team Meszmer/MÃller. Meszmer discusses the exhibition they curated at Projektraum Exex titled âDeconstructing Eden â Fragments of a Perfect Life,â? their transitory museum-in-progress called Zeitgarten, the Swiss professional artistsâ organization Visarte, and the new group of highly active âalternativeâ? art spaces in Switzerland united under the rubric âOff-Off.â? - Bad at Sports Episode 125: Tim Fleming/Art Reviews (48mb)
Sat, 19 Jan 2008 23:00:00 GMT Author: badatsports@gmail.com
100 minutes of raw power! Brian and Marc talk to Tim Fleming, Director of Art LA. If that werenât enough for a whole show, we go that extra mile and knock your socks off!!! Lori Waxman and Duncan check out the current batch of shows around the
- Bad at Sports Episode 124: Laura Letinsky/ Sabrina Raaf (36mb)
Sun, 13 Jan 2008 01:09:00 GMT Author: badatsports@gmail.com
FIRST: Duncan and Jeff Ward talk to photographer Laura Letinsky about her work and recent exhibition at Monique Meloche.
Laura Letinsky has exhibited her color photographs in numerous venues, including the
NEXT: Kathryn Born talks to sculptor Sabrina Raaf.
Sabrina Raaf is a Chicago-based artist working in experimental sculptural media and photography. Her work has been presented in solo and group exhibitions at Mejan Labs (Stockholm), Stefan Stux Gallery (NYC), Ars Electronica (Linz), Opel Villas Foundation Art Center (RÃsselsheim), Museum Tinguely (Basel), Espace Landowski (Paris), Artbots 2005 (Dublin), San Jose Museum of Art, Kunsthaus Graz, ISEA (Helsinki), Klein Art Works (Chicago), The Lab (San Francisco) and Painted Bride Center (Philadelphia). She is the recipient of a Creative Capital Grant in Emerging Fields (2002) and an Illinois Arts Council Fellowship (2005 & 2001). Reviews of her work have appeared in Art in
The music in this weekâs show is in honor of Duncan and the shady company he has been keeping.
- Bad at Sports Episode 123: Anne Elizabeth Moore (36mb)
Sat, 5 Jan 2008 21:29:00 GMT Author: badatsports@gmail.com
Duncan and Terri talk to Anne Elizabeth Moore about her book Unmarketable: Brandalism, Copyfighting, Mocketing, and the Erosion of Integrity and related topics.
For years the do-it-yourself (DIY)/punk underground has worked against the logic of mass production and creative uniformity, disseminating radical ideas and directly making and trading goods and services. But what happens when the underground becomes just another market? What happens when the very tools that the artists and activists have used to build word of mouth are coopted by corporate
Unmarketable examines the corrosive effects of corporate infiltration of the underground. Activist and author Anne Elizabeth Moore takes a critical look at the savvy advertising agencies, corporate marketing teams, and branding experts who use DIY techniques to reach a youth marketâand at members of the underground who have helped forward corporate agendas through their own artistic, and occasionally activist, projects.
Covering everything from Adbusters to Tylenolâs indie-star-studded Ouch! campaign, Unmarketable is a lively, funny, and much-needed look at whatâs happening to the underground and what it means for activism, commerce, and integrity in a world dominated by corporations.
Anne Elizabeth Moore is the co-editor of Punk Planet, the Best American Comics series editor, and the author of Hey Kidz! Buy This Book: A Radical Primer on Corporate and Governmental Propaganda and Artistic Activism for Short People. She has written for Bitch, the Chicago Reader, In These Times, The Onion, The Progressive, and Chicago Public Radio WBEZâs radio program 848. She lives inI will mail 5 bucks to the first person who can identify the name of the artist and title of the song used to close the show, it has bothered me for years that I donât know who it is.
- Bad at Sports Episode 122: Leo Koenig/ BioTechnique (35mb)
Sun, 30 Dec 2007 02:32:00 GMT Author: badatsports@gmail.com
First: Amanda Browder and guest host Tom Sanford talk to New York Gallerist Leo Koenig.
From the Leo Koenig Site:
Leo Koenig opened his gallery in 1999 inFor six years now, Leo Koenig Inc. has been presenting a surprising mix of fresh exhibitions, anchored by a well-learned tradition of publication. Ever vigilant that the artist's work be seen in an appropriate context, the gallery has been dedicated to producing catalogues with penetrating essays, and limited-edition artist books.
With a focus on painting and sculpture, Leo Koenig Inc.'s current roster includes some of the most internationally renowned emerging and mid-career contemporary artists. We are pleased to represent the following artists:
Next: Brian Andrews, Marc LeBlanc and Patricia Maloney discuss the BioTechnique show at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, which Brian Andrews thinks is utter crap.
- Bad at Sports Episode 121: Holiday Spectacular!!! (41mb)
Fri, 21 Dec 2007 22:08:00 GMT Author: badatsports@gmail.com
Need something to listen to during your holiday travels? Well we are back once again with the BAS Holiday Spectacular! Over an hour of eclectic holiday related music, mirth and mayhem.
First a solid hour of gems from the BAS vault, some things you love, some things you hate, some things that will surprise you.
We finish it off with the West Coast Bureau playing holiday madlibs.
Not to be missed. - Bad at Sports Episode 120: Intuit and Literago.org (35mb)
Sun, 16 Dec 2007 04:42:00 GMT Author: badatsports@gmail.com
First: Shannon and Duncan talk Robert Reinard, Program Director, Collections & Exhibitions and Amanda Curtis, Program Director, Education from Intuit.
Intuit is a not-for-profit organization founded in 1991. Our mission is to promote public awareness, understanding, and appreciation of intuitive and outsider art through a program of education and exhibition.
Toward this end, Intuit strives to discover, document, maintain, preserve, exhibit, and collect examples of intuitive and outsider art; and to operate a permanent facility in which to pursue such activities.
Intuit defines "intuitive and outsider art" as work of artists who demonstrate little influence from the mainstream art world and who seem instead motivated by their unique personal visions. This includes what is known as art brut, non-traditional folk art, self-taught art, and visionary art.
Next: Terri and Joanna talk to Gretchen Kalwinski and Eugenia Williamson from Literago.org
Literago.org is intended as a portal to news and information about literary goings-on in and around
- Bad at Sports Episode 119: James Elkins on Globalism! (24mb)
Sun, 9 Dec 2007 05:01:00 GMT
The festival of Elkins!
Duncan talks with James Elkins about globalism, imperialism's and all sorts of lighthearted stuff. This is audio that was recorded this summer at The Stone Theory Institute's first iteration; 2007: The Globalization of Art, co-organized with Zhivka Valiavicharska. Bad At Sport sat in on the whole thing and has pretty much every second on tape. We will be posting five sections over the next month or two as raw audio with a short introduction by Elkins himself. These will not be the polished "podio" that you have been used too but for those of you academically inclined it will be freaking awesome... check the blog regularly as we will update with out notice.
We have a James Elkins original picture of all the scholars involved with their names for download at...
http://www.badatsports.com/megsmagic/2007-panorama.jpg
The show opens with an indictment of Duncan's mean-ness. - Bad at Sports Episode 118: Circus Gallery/Navta Schultz (33mb)
Sun, 2 Dec 2007 06:27:00 GMT Author: badatsports@gmail.com
Marc and Brian interview Dawn Kasper with John Knuth of Circus Gallery featuring Michael Bauer of The Confederacy of Creative Ephemera.
- Bad at Sports Episode 117: Amanda is back and you're gonna be in trouble (31mb)
Sun, 25 Nov 2007 05:01:00 GMT Author: badatsports@gmail.com
Amanda is back and you're gonna be in trouble, hey nah hey nah, Amanda's back!!!
Amanda Browder and Nathan Rogers-Madsen talk New York.
Mike Benedetto reveals his Transformer wish. - Bad at Sports Episode 116: Scott McCloud! (37mb)
Sun, 18 Nov 2007 14:09:00 GMT Author: badatsports@gmail.com
Critic and Curator Jeff Ward joins Duncan and Richard in interviewing Comic theorist, artist, educator and all around kickass guy Scott McCloud.
From Scott McCloud's website (www.scottmccloud.com)"At the age of 15, I remember telling my friend Kurt Busiek "I've decided to become a professional comic book artist." It was the Summer between 10th and 11th Grades. My previous decision to become World Chess Champion had proved impractical, but this time I knew I could pull it off and a year and a half out of college, I finally did.
Today, I'm probably best known for:
- Understanding Comics.
A 215-page comic book about comics that explains the inner workings of the
medium and examines many aspects of visual communication along the way. Understanding
Comics has done well in stores, is in over 15 languages and, while not
universally liked, is about
as close to it as I'm ever likely to see. A favorite of interface, game
and Web designers despite the fact that it doesn't mention computers once.
(Published 1993).
- Reinventing Comics.
The controversial 242-page follow-up to U.C. advocates 12 different
revolutions in the way comics are created, distributed and perceived with
special emphasis on the potential of Online Comics. Nearly every page
seemed to step on somebody's toes, and the debates in the comics industry
over comics on the Web have gotten increasingly heated since its
publication. Reinventing Comics is the only book I've ever written
that's been actually described as "dangerous."
(Published 2000).
- My Online Comics.
They're all here (or at least linked
to from here). Take a look.
- Public
Speaking and Teaching. Click to find out more.
- Zot!. My
first series ran for 36 issues at
- My Inventions.
Over the years, I've created a number of strange, comics-related, um...
things. Enough that I decided to give them their own section of this site.
Check it out.
- My Other Comics.Though
not numerous, I have done other printed comics including 1985's Destroy!!,
a 12 issue stint writing Superman
Adventures, in the mid-90's, a bizarre and generally disliked graphic novel about
Abraham Lincoln, some mini-comics, short pieces, and various
comics-style articles in magazines like Wired, Nickelodeon, Computer
Gaming World, Wizard and Publishers' Weekly.
Depending on who you ask, I'm either comics' leading theorist or a deranged lunatic, but life continues to be very interesting for me and the ideas that I've raised continue to provoke reactions throughout the comics community and -- increasingly -- beyond it. Pick up Understanding Comics (or look for it at your local library) to begin finding out why."
ALSO: Mark Staff Brandl checks in to review art with his students from the Central European Bureau!
Lastly Duncan and Joanna act wacky and Joanna has some interesting ideas.
- Understanding Comics.
A 215-page comic book about comics that explains the inner workings of the
medium and examines many aspects of visual communication along the way. Understanding
Comics has done well in stores, is in over 15 languages and, while not
universally liked, is about
as close to it as I'm ever likely to see. A favorite of interface, game
and Web designers despite the fact that it doesn't mention computers once.
(Published 1993).
- Bad at Sports Episode 115: Judy Ledgerwood with guest host Tony Tasset (33mb)
Sun, 11 Nov 2007 13:17:00 GMT Author: badatsports@gmail.com
Holy crap! This show is an instant classic. Richard returns; not only to production duty but also, at long last, to interview duty. Painter and art legend Judy Ledgerwood is our guest. Guest host Tony Tasset joins in on interviewing duties to ask the hard hitting questions. Not to be missed.
The following bio is shamelessly stolen from the Hyde Park Art Center, please don't sue us:
In the tradition of Modernist painting, Judy Ledgerwood paints monumental abstract compositions that explore light, color, and structure. Her paintings are formal, decorative, and tranquil while simultaneously being highly personal, optically challenging, and inherently subversive. In her compositions, she creates a dialogue that is uniquely feminine but also powerful and authoritative. Early in her career, Ledgerwood began incorporating traditionally feminine pastel colors into her landscape based paintings in an attempt to challenge and undermine the historically male-dominated tradition of gestural abstract paintings. Today her compositions include circular motifs typically associated with the decorative arts tradition. In the 1970s many feminist artists identified and celebrated circular patterns as being connected to female identity. Ledgerwood acknowledges this tradition through her continued use of dot motifs, which she identifies as her form of non exclamatory mark-making. Ledgerwood is the recipient of a Tiffany Award in the Visual Arts, a National Endowment for the Arts Award, an Illinois Art Council Award and two CIRA Grants from Northwestern University. Her work is represented in the public collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Milwaukee Museum of Art, the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, and Swissbank New York. Her degrees are from the Art Academy of Cincinnati, BFA, and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, MFA.
If that werenât enough, crack open a diet coke plus and sit down for Mike Benedetto who is joined by Tony Fitzpatrick as they review the new Jodi Foster Revenge thriller The Brave One during which they use the phrase âCharles Bronson with titsâ?.
And for you Encyclopedia Brown sleuths out there, allegedly there is a secret message from Tony Tasset hidden somewhere in the show.
If you listen to one freaking episode of BAS this year it sure as hell better be this one.
- Bad at Sports Episode 114: Carol Jackson, Anthony Elms, and Jubilee City (39mb)
Sun, 4 Nov 2007 18:01:00 GMT Author: badatsports@gmail.com
On this week's exciting Episode, number 114... Art Forum's Anthony Elms and Bad at Sports' Duncan MacKenzie interrogate Carol Jackson about her dynamite exhibition at Gallery 400, and Terri Griffith and Joanna MacKenzie take apart John Andoe's "Jubilee City: A Memoir at Full Speed". It doesn't get any better then this.
Also, to the person who scrawled "I MISS RICHARD" in lipstick on the mirror of the men's bathroom at BAS HQ, we know who you are and this is unacceptable behavior.
From Gallery 400:
Carol Jacksonâs signs, sculptures, gouaches and drawings use common, everyday âsignaturelessâ? styles to let loose the grandiose morality within the picturesque languages and visuals of advertising. Her work is a bitterly humorous send up of the demands and promises commercial representations make for goods, be they detergent, food, or real estate. Long focusing on a series of meticulously hand-tooled leather reworkings of both store advertising and real estate development signage, Jackson replaces the found text with disdainful, mistrustful and self-depreciating thoughts that sales language represses. What remains is the epic longing and promissory nature of the address.
From Publishers Weekly:
n this charming memoir, Andoe narrates his journey from his Tulsa childhood through redneck, hard-partying teen years to a highly successful career as a (hard-partying redneck) painter in New York City. While Andoe may not be a professional writer, his humor and offbeat artistic sensibility make up for any lack of prose-writing chops. Through discrete anecdotes that seldom run longer than two pages, Andoe assembles vivid portraits of his family and friends and of the various environments he inhabitedâthe working-class Tulsa neighborhoods of the 1960s, the high school and college drug culture at the end of the hippie era, and the New York art scene of the 1980s. Andoe rarely said No to drugs, and the marginal characters and dangerous encounters of the lowlife provide the book with a great deal of energy and pathos; at times his memoir reads like a more amateur version of Denis Johnson's Jesus' Son. Yet whenever the gonzo stories verge on tedium, Andoe modulates his tone and shows himself as the stay-at-home dad, the outdoorsman, the artist. While Andoe has an occasional tendency to settle scores (his ex-wife receives particularly brutal treatment) or trumpet his status as an outsider, for the most part his wide-eyed sense of wonder and keen observations make the everyday strange and fresh. (Aug.)
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Enjoy. - Bad at Sports Episode 113: Tracy Marie Taylor/ Front Forty Press (39mb)
Sun, 28 Oct 2007 05:01:00 GMT Author: badatsports@gmail.com
Duncan and Richard talk to Tracy Marie Taylor, artist and curator who curated the new show Bilingual, Art at the Intersection of Painting and Video.
Bilingual focuses on artwork at the intersection of painting and drawing, film and video, encompassing both conceptual and process-driven approaches. The artists in this exhibition are acting as visual linguists or interpreters, breaking down one language and reconstructing it in another, holding the sense of the structure together with an understanding of both.
Bilingual will feature works by Shira Avni, Kylie Baker, Wafaa Bilal, Jeremy Blake, Eddy De Vos, Terence Hannum, Jay Heikes, John Hiltabidel & John Grant, Jo Jackson, William Kentridge, Patte Loper, Joshua Mosley, Sabina Ott, David Reed, Peter Rostovsky, Alison Ruttan, Jason Salavon, Marcelino Stuhmer, Fraser Taylor, Jim Trainor, and Scott Wolniak.
Joanna and Terri talk to Doug Fogelson from Front Forty Press about art books and lots of other neat stuff. Front Forty Press is a small publisher focused on artistic projects. A Front Forty project is one that embodies uninhibited creativity and deals with current topics. The work can be functional, political, ecological or simply expressive. What matters most at Front Forty Press is the cultivation and communication of ideas.
- Bad at Sports Episode 112: Trevor Paglen/ Pate Conaway (42mb)
Sun, 21 Oct 2007 04:01:00 GMT Author: badatsports@gmail.com
This week: Marc and Brian talk to Trevor Paglen.
"Trevor Paglen is an artist, writer, and experimental geographer working out of the Department of Geography at the
Paglenâs visual work has been shown in galleries and museums including MASSMOCA (2006), the
Paglenâs first book, Torture Taxi: On the Trail of the CIAâs Rendition Flights (co-authored with AC Thompson; Melville House, 2006) was the first book to systematically describe the CIAâs âextraordinary renditionâ? program. His second book, I Could Tell You But Then You Would Have to be Destroyed by Me (Melville House, 2007) an examination of the visual culture of âblackâ? military programs, will be published in November 2007. He is currently completing his third book, entitled Blank Spots on a Map, which will be published by Dutton/NAL/Penguin in late 2008/early 2009.
Paglen has received grants and commissions from Rhizome.org, the LEF Foundation, and the
Paglen holds a BA from UC Berkeley, an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and is currently completing a PhD in the Department of Geography at the
NEXT: Terri and Serena talk to Pate Conaway.
"Pate Conaway is an interdisciplinary artist from
AND Mike B. has a rant to offer. - Bad at Sports Episode 111: Sympathy for Dominic Molon (34mb)
Sun, 14 Oct 2007 04:01:00 GMT Author: badatsports@gmail.com
Duncan and Richard talk to Dominic Molon about, Sympathy for the Devil: Art and Rock and Roll Since 1967. There are lots of "Rock out with your cock out!" kind of stupid comments. Paul Klein and Wesley hated it, hear from the curator go check out the show and see what you think.
From the MCA site:
"Sympathy for the Devil: Art and Rock and Roll Since 1967 examines the dynamic relationship between rock music and contemporary visual art, a relationship that crosses continents, generations, and cultures. Since the late 1950s this unlikely hybrid of rhythm-and-blues and country music has had an undeniable impact on society while drastically changing with the times. Artists from the 1960s to the present have maintained a strong connection to rock, beginning with Andy Warholâs involvement with The Velvet Underground (who released their Warhol-produced landmark album The Velvet Underground and Nico in 1967 -- the same year the MCA opened its doors). More recently, artists such as Slater Bradley, Raymond Pettibon, and Mike Kelley have created album covers and music videos for rock bands, while many noted rock musicians such as John Lennon, Bryan Ferry, and Peter Townsend have emerged from art schools.This exhibition is the most serious and comprehensive look at the intimate and inspired relationship between the visual arts and rock-and-roll culture to date, charting their intersection through works of art, album covers, music videos, and other materials. The exhibition addresses the importance of specific cities such as London, New York, Los Angeles, and Cologne; rock and rollâs style, celebrity, and identity politics in art; the experience, energy, and sense of devotion rock music inspires; and the dual role that many individuals play in both the sonic and visual realms. This exhibition is curated by MCA Curator Dominic Molon."
- Bad at Sports Episode 110: Around the Coyote?!?/ SF opening extravaganza (38mb)
Sun, 7 Oct 2007 04:01:00 GMT Author: badatsports@gmail.com
Is there an art scene in
Brian Andrews and Marc LeBlanc are joined by Patricia Maloney and they discuss the new season of shows that recently opened in
- Bad at Sports Episode 109: Roger Brown Study Collection (29mb)
Sun, 30 Sep 2007 04:56:00 GMT Author: badatsports@gmail.com
Duncan and guest host Shannon Stratton talk to Lisa Stone curator of the Roger Brown study collection about what a kickass resource it is and what you can do, by simply clicking a mouse, to help save it.
Kathryn Born checks in from the Hyde Park Art Center about their current show.
Coming soon! Jim Elkins, Judy Ledgerwood, Dominic Molon on rock, Lee Bontecou, Tony Fitzpatrick versus Mike Benedetto and ever so much more!!!
Through a series of gifts and bequests The School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) has become the primary repository of the personal, intellectual, and artistic effects of alumnus Roger Brown. His generosity to the School included a remarkable group of paintings and prints. Brownâs gift of paintings is organized into two groups: the Roger Brown Permanent Collection, a study collection of works that are available for study and exhibition, and the Roger Brown Estate Collection of Paintings and Prints. Works from the Estate Collections are offered for sale to museums and private collectors, and are available for loan to museum exhibitions. Proceeds from the sale of paintings and prints provide a major source of operating support for the Roger Brown Study Collection.
SAIC is in the unique position to share a wealth of artistic, personal, and intellectual resources from the RBSC Archive with collectors and institutions considering loans or purchases. The RBSC Archive includes Brownâs sketchbooks from early/student years to the early 1990s. From these we can often provide images from Brownâs creative process for a specific work or art, or a time frame in Brownâs career. We can often provide provenance, exhibition and publication histories, and at times we can find references to specific works or ideas in Brownâs writings. - Bad at Sports Episode 108: Marc Fischer (38mb)
Sun, 23 Sep 2007 14:22:00 GMT Author: badatsports@gmail.com
This week Anthony Elms and Duncan talk to Marc Fischer about the Public Collectors project and other things.
Then Marc LeBlanc and Brian Andrews talk about how Marc is turning Japanese, he thinks heâs turning Japanese, he really thinks soâ.
The intro discusses how Philip von Zweck is a thug.
Anthony, please, dear God, talk in to the mic, seriously.
The following blurbs were shamelessly stolen from PVZâs site:
Marc Fischer is 1/3 of the group Temporary Services, 1/11th of Mess Hall- an experimental cultural center in Rogerâs Park (where he co-organizes the Hardcore Histories series), and an artist who curated the prison-themed exhibition âCaptive Audienceâ? at Gallery 400 earlier this year. In addition to believing that
vinyl remains the superior format for the appreciation of recorded music, Fischer still refuses to own a fucking cell phone.
Anthony Elms overcame his youth as just another punk in Michigan to become the assistant director of Gallery 400, the editor of WhiteWalls, and a writer whose works have appeared in like every freakin' magazine ever (except Artforum, whatever), plus in some exhibition catalogs for stuff that didn't happen at VONZWECK, but was still ok. He's pimped himself out at times; and participated in some panel discussions, but I think the panel discussion is always a bad idea, always. Anthony agrees.
On Public Collectors:
VONZWECK- as an entity, doesnât care about art. You know it, you always have. But VONZWECK likes administration, andâ stuff. Especially other peopleâs stuff! So does Marc Fischer. He likes stuff so much heâs started a whole new initiative to get to see it, and, being the unselfish soul that he is, to share it.
Itâs called Public Collectors and it is founded upon the concern that there are many types of cultural artifacts that public libraries, museums and other institutions and archives either do not collect or do not make freely accessible. Public Collectors asks people that have had the luxury to amass, organize, and inventory these materials, to help reverse this lack by making their collections public. Itâs voluntary and itâs free. Not about selling, or buying and not restricted to art. Itâs about getting to see something you might not have access to otherwise and exchanges of knowledge.
For this - the kickoff, the ribbon cutting, Marc will be sharing one of his collections: records. Thatâs right actual records, long players, vinyl, what have you. Many will be on display; many more will be brought to the space for listening on request.
But the idea isnât just for you to see Marcâs stuff, itâs for you to share your collection(s) and view other peoplesâ. Other collections are online and many more will be added soon at www.publiccollectors.org. - Bad at Sports Episode 107: Opening shots! (44mb)
Sun, 16 Sep 2007 20:57:00 GMT Author: badatsports@gmail.com
Jason Dunda and Teena McClelland (from the Alliance of Pentaphillic Curators) are back, along with Kathryn, Christopher Hudgens in a rare on mic appearance, Duncan, Terri and Serena all providing team coverage of opening extravaganza 2007.
You are mentioned in this episode, seriously, no name drop list this week because you know you are in here, someone is talking about you, maybe something good, maybe something bad, youâll just have to listen.
Mike B. is back with 28 somethings later.
- Bad at Sports Episode 106: Squid are the new deer. (41mb)
Sun, 9 Sep 2007 04:07:00 GMT Author: badatsports@gmail.com
This episode is full of drama and mystery. Is this the middle of the end? Will Duncan and Richard ever work together again? Is the closing to this weekâs show the saddest thing ever on a podcast? Are squid the new deer?
This week Clare Britt from Fraction Workspace returns and discusses La Biennale di Venezia with Duncan and Joanna. Listen closely and you too can be on the cusp of the hot new trends.
Our new Washington D.C. correspondent Katy Chang checks in from the San Diego Comicon. She is the only other JD/MFA weâve ever met. Itâs like Highlander, eventually she will have to duel Richard to the death. There can be only one.
AND, if that werenât enough action, Joanna and Terri discuss Douglas Copelandâs book Hey Nostradamus!: A Novel. A high school shooting in Vancouver, I thought our neighbors to the north were pacifists.
The closing is the saddest thing ever on Bad at Sports, weep for Duncan. - Bad at Sports Episode 105: Mucho Stuffo (33mb)
Sun, 2 Sep 2007 04:30:00 GMT Author: badatsports@gmail.comThis week Clare Britt from Fraction Workspace stops
by to give the run down on a couple of the
European shows with Duncan and Joanna. Namely
Documenta and
To consider
Also the fine and wacky folks form The Alliance
of Pentaphilic Curators show up to encourage
Philip von Zweck's friends to explain why it
should have been them while they
"roast the bastard" in recognition of the
sizable grant he won this year.
The opening and closing songs of this week's show
are there largely to amuse Kaveh Soofi.
If you don't get it, you don't, sorry. - Bad at Sports Episode 104: Brian Holmes with Lane Relyea (42mb)
Sun, 26 Aug 2007 04:10:00 GMT Author: badatsports@gmail.com
The show opens with a bang! Britton Bertran's car is hit and we are the witnesses.
And as you listen to this week's intro designed specifically to irritate Duncan, pause a moment and say to yourself..."Seriously? Episode 104?" Richard's parents have called us both to mention how happy they are. Here we are poised on the cusp of another Bad at Sports season and this week Duncan is joined by friends of the show Lane Relyea and Claire Pentecost to interview/interrogate French American Theorist and Art Critic Brian Holmes.
As we roll over the two year mark we once again are faced with questions about the Bad at Sports Project. We know what we think but once again we want to hear from you. Please email your thoughts about the show and your hopes for it's future to badatsports@gmail.com please use the header "Hope Chest." Thanks in advance for taking the time to help us get better.
Piet Zwart Institute Bio for Brian Holmes-
Brian Holmes is an art and cultural critic, activist and translator, living in Paris, interested primarily in the intersections of artistic and political practice. He holds a doctorate in Romance Languages and Literatures from the University of California at Berkeley. He was the English editor of publications for Documenta X, Kassel, Germany, 1997, was a member of the graphic arts group Ne pas plier from 1999 to 2001, and has recently worked with the French conceptual art group Bureau d'Ãtudes. He is a frequent contributor to the international mailinglist Nettime, a member of the editorial committee of the art magazine "Springerin" and the political-economy journal "Multitudes", a regular contributor to the magazine Parachute, and a founder of the new journal "Autonomie Artistique". He is currently preparing a book in French, entitled "La personnalità flexible: Pour une nouvelle critique de la culture."
http://brianholmes.wordpress.com/
Theo Hakola is a god among men.
- Bad at Sports Episode 103: Carol Becker (30mb)
Sun, 19 Aug 2007 05:00:00 GMT Author: badatsports@gmail.com
Duncan and Terri talk to Carol Becker about the School of the Art Institute, the future of arts education, and her new position at Columbia University.
ALSO: THE INCREDIBLE RETURN OF MIKE AND THE 30 SECONDS MOVIE REVIEWS with bonus seconds.Artist, Art Historian, and Dean,
of Faculty and Senior Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago.She is the author of numerous articles and several books with many foreign editors. Her book publications include: The Invisible Drama: Women and The Anxiety of Change; The Subversive Imagination: Artists, Society, and Social Responsibility; Zones of Contention: Essays on Art, Institutions, Gender, and Anxiety; and most recently, Surpassing the Spectacle: Global Transformations and the Changing Politics of Art.
Prelude to published interview taken from the book, Conversations Before the End of Time by Suzi Gablik.
âIn 1994, Carol Becker was appointed dean and vice-president for academic affairs of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, having been a former chair of the graduate division before that. She received her Ph.D. in literature at the University of San Diego, where she was a protÃgà of Herbert Marcuse. A lecturer in women's studies since the late 1960s, and a writer on psychoanalytic theory and cultural politics, she has been mulling over the obsolete attitudes and strategies of the art world for a long time, particularly the issue of the artist's responsibility to society, which she claims is a sensitive issue that makes everyone uncomfortable, defensive and insecure. Becker feels that many artists simply refuse to address the issue at all. Artists often choose rebellion, which alienates them from their audience, and then become angry at the degree to which they are unappreciated. In part this is a consequence of the way we educate students in art schools, envisioning the artist as a marginalized and romantic figure who, she claims, operates "out of what Freud calls the Pleasure Principle while the rest of us struggle within the Reality Principle." Students need to think about their work, she feels, not in isolation, but in relationship to the public and to an audience that has not been addressed in art school pedagogical situations. American art students, like most American college students, Becker claims, have not been trained to think globally or politically about their position in society. In a sense, art has seceded from American culture so completely that it has lost its effectiveness and become a subsidized bureaucracy of self-serving specialists.â? - Bad at Sports Episode 102: There's a riot going on (31mb)
Sun, 12 Aug 2007 04:05:00 GMT Author: badatsports@gmail.comThis weekâs show has everything.
Brian and Marc with critic, writer, and all around interesting guy Julian Myers on rock and rioting.
Terri, Joanna and Danielle Egan-Miller talk to Arik Verezhensky proprietor of Gemini Fine Books & Arts, Ltd. A collector and dealer in rare and amazing art and books, and art books, and maybe a few books on art.
- Bad at Sports Episode 101: Jim Duignan/ Stockyard Institute (28mb)
Sun, 5 Aug 2007 05:01:00 GMT Author: badatsports@gmail.com
AMANDA IS BACK!!! Duncan and Amanda talk to Jim Duignan about his current project at the Hyde Park Art Center. Super friend of Bad at Sports (and Director of Exhibitions at the HPAC) Allison Peters is there too!
To wit:
"Jim Duignan is an artist and founder of the Stockyard Institute, a project that draws attention to the visionary status of youth and people through the arts in a variety ofJim begins his âresidencyâ? at the
...music and passion are always in fashion.... - Bad at Sports Episode 100: Mattress Factory/ Book Review (29mb)
Sun, 29 Jul 2007 04:49:00 GMT Author: badatsports@gmail.com
Richard joins Pittsburgh bureau chiefs Katie Reilly and Craig Fox along with special correspondent Sarah Guernsey to discuss the Mattress Factory.
Also Terri and Joanna discuss Don DeLillo's latest Falling Man: A Novel.
100 shows. Wow. - Bad at Sports Episode 99: Center for Tactical Magic/ Caroline Picard (39mb)
Sun, 22 Jul 2007 09:05:00 GMT Author: badatsports@gmail.com
Joanna, Amanda and Terri talk to Green Lantern Director Caroline Picard.
Marc and Brian talk to the Aaron Gach of the Center for Tactical Magic in San Francisco.
Richard continues his slide into "Ed Anger"dom. - Bad at Sports Episode 98: Escultura Social: A New Generation of Art from Mexico City (35mb)
Sun, 15 Jul 2007 04:01:00 GMT Author: badatsports@gmail.com
This week Duncan and Richard talk to Julie Rodrigues Widholm and a number of the artists from the show about the hot hot hot new show at the MCA - Escultura Social: A New Generation of Art from Mexico City.
Duncan talks to Packard Jennings about his residency at ThreeWalls.
Richard is turning into Ed Anger. - Bad at Sports Episode 97: Jack Hanley (32mb)
Sun, 8 Jul 2007 18:04:00 GMT Author: badatsports@gmail.com
THIS WEEK: Superstar gallerist Jack Hanley is interviewed by Brian and Marc. Our own beloved Mike Benedetto reviews Terry Gilliam's Tideland and is responsible for the intro to this week's show. The London bureau's Christian and Emily talk about lots of gallery shows. - Bad at Sports Episode 96: Jeff Wall (29mb)
Sun, 1 Jul 2007 18:33:00 GMT Author: badatsports@gmail.comJeff Wall, people! Canadian superstar Jeff Wall is interviewed by Duncan and Richard when he was in
Jeff Wall
June 29-September 23, 2007
Regenstein HallJeff Wall is considered one of the most acclaimed and influential artists of his generation. He uses state-of-the-art photographic and computer technologies to make pictures that evoke the composition, scale, and ambition of the grandest history paintings. This exhibition presents a comprehensive overview of Wall's nearly 30-year career.
Next, Jonathan Messinger and Zach Dodson the force behind Featherproof Books, an indie publisher based here in
Finally, Amanda is leaving for
- Bad at Sports Episode 95: Old Gold/Boumstein-Smalley/JMOCA (35mb)
Sun, 24 Jun 2007 04:34:00 GMT Author: badatsports.com
Allright so my computer is fairly f-ed and therefore this show note will be even less witty than usual. A bunch of post-its are wedged between the keyboard and the video processor to hold it in place. Curse you IBM.
Duncan and Marc LeBlanc talk to Caleb Lyons of Old Gold Gallery and formerly of Art Ledge.
Brian Andrews and Marc LeBlanc talk to Justin Hansch about Justinâs
Sarah corrects BAS on their grammar.
- Bad at Sports Episode 94: Jana Gunstheimer/ Chicago Politics (37mb)
Sun, 17 Jun 2007 10:30:00 GMT Author: badatsports@gmail.comThis Week: Guest interviewer Lisa Dorin talks to German artist Jana Gunstheimer (see the blurb shamelessly lifted from the AIC website, below). ALSO we get two different perspectives on the fight over the Public Art Program and how they handle the selection and approval process. Kathryn talks to Olga Stefan Executive Director of the Chicago Artists' Coalition at Monday's protest rally, and
Richard spent a lot of time chuckling to himself about the music cues in this weeks show.
German artist Jana Gunstheimer combines her academic training in ethnology with a refined figurative drawing practice to observe and comment on aspects of her own culture. Gunstheimer responds to the transformations she sees taking place in contemporary German society including postindustrial desolation, drastic unemployment, and rising levels of aggression among people of her generation by way of a semi-fictional organization she calls Nova Porta. Complete with a logo, Web site, and an actual membership, the organization offers People without Social Function a semblance of structure through g