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In this episode of Bad at Sports Podcast, we delve into the puffy painting and bulging canvases with Chicago-based artist Christina Ballantyne. Live from the opening day of EXPO Chicago 2024. We are the very heart of fabulous in the center of art world fortune and glory.

Guest Bio: Christina Ballantyne is a Chicago-based artist known for her dynamic and thought-provoking artwork. Her work explores themes of identity, culture, and the human experience, drawing inspiration from her surroundings and personal reflections. With a background in fine arts and a keen eye for detail, Christina’s creations have been exhibited in galleries and art spaces across the country.

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The artists of Hilma’s Ghost join us from the inside of Secrist Beach Gallery, Chicago’s newly opened and probably most gorgeous gallery, Dannielle Tegeder and Sharmistha Ray, treat us to magic, haunting and an introduction to tarot. Beyond that, they revel in the radical feminist histories of art and witchcraft looking for knowledge beyond the rationally conceived.

Beyond Hilma’s Ghost they also chat about putting together the exhibition “Cosmic Geometries the Prairies Edge.” Including Candida Alvarez, Elijah Burgher, Holly Cahill, Mike Cloud, Gianna Commito, Edie Fake, Vanessa Filley, Julia Fish, Beverly Fishman, Diana Guerrero-Maciá, Azadeh Gholizadeh, Michelle Grabner, Christina Haglid, Rachel Hayes, Gina Hunt, Michiko Itatani, Miyoko Ito, Anna Kunz, Alice Lauffer, Aya Nakamura, Deb Sokolow, May Tveit, Georgina Valverde, Susan C. White, Amy Yoes and Jade Yumang.

https://www.hilmasghost.com/

https://www.guggenheim.org/exhibition/hilma-af-klint

https://www.secristgallery.com/exhibitions/2024/hilmas-ghost-spectral-visions-a-feminist-collective-signals-magickal-futures/

https://www.secristgallery.com/exhibitions/2024/cosmic-geometries-the-prairies-edge/

https://www.octaviaartgallery.com/artists/dannielle-tegeder?view=slider#4

https://sharmistharay.com/work/tantra-series-2020-ongoing-works-on-paper/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarot

https://m.facebook.com/hilmasghost?locale2=my_MM

https://hyperallergic.com/330790/the-unnamed-woman-artist-revealed-in-the-monogram-of-your-tarot-cards/

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This week Bad at Sports favorite art world wanderer, Nato Thompson. We chat through all of Nato’s current diversions such as independent curating, building the 21st Century Museum and AI’s role in that work, the Alternative Art School and the value proposition of contemporary arts education, and Dreaming in Public.

https://thealternativeartschool.net/

https://www.dreaminginpublic.com/

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Kate Sierzputowski for EXPO and the Barely Fair! Holy smokes the Art circus is in town. Time to get on board! WE HAVE ALL THE PREVIEW YOU NEED!

https://www.expochicago.com/visit

https://www.barelyfair.com/

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Compound Yellow’s featured artist Gary Cannone dominates every part of the compound with his LA from Chicago brand of conceptual art. Fun name drops include Bernini and Maritizo Catalan. Tune in for the rest.

bio:

Gary Cannone (Guerino Giovanni Cannone) was born in 1964 to Italian immigrants working factory jobs in Chicago. He learned english from American 70s television and was obsessed with Norm Crosby, Carol Burnett, the Three Stooges, Mad Magazine, Wacky Packages, and the Marx Brothers. His grandfather (and namesake) was crushed to death by a pool table the day before Cannone’s eighth birthday in a warehouse accident.

He played in the early 80s leftist punk rock band The Leeches but, as his interest in performing music waned, he saw Vito Aconcci lecture and decided to become an artist. Cannone exhibited conceptual and often dadaistic art while headquartered from Chicago, Rome, and Los Angeles until he was diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis in 2013. As the disease took a toll on his body, he took a hiatus but began to work again digitally using social media to distribute art and jokes. Interest in his communal project of parody album covers “Albums by Conceptual Artists” led to invitations to exhibit again. He began exploring the effects of his disease on his body and brain which led him back to the comedic tropes he loved so much as a youngster; adressing his disability through the lens of slapstick rather than advocacy.

Cannone’s recent work can be described as a decidedly reductive art executed with the deft skill of a prop comic. The resulting ensemble explores fragility, instability, urges, communication, humiliation, tension, torture, gravity, parody, dexterity, and death.

https://compoundyellow.com/

https://garycannone.studio/

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Live from WY! The return of art world mega force Sharon Louden and music Impresario Vinson Valega! We talk Sustaining your Creative Life and the Institute for it! Always working to better your artistic life! Get your Art World hustle on.

Asia Freeman/Bunnell Arts Center (Homer, AK): https://www.bunnellarts.org/
Andreana Donahue/Arts of Life (Chicago): https://artsoflife.org/about/
Ruby Lerner: www.rubylerner.com (AMAZING WEBSITE/RESOURCE)
Ray Johnson: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Johnson
Evan Penny: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evan_Penny
Phil Ross: https://www.mycoworks.com/our-heritage and https://www.moma.org/interactives/exhibitions/2013/designandviolence/mycotecture-phil-ross/
Wyoming Initiative Partnership (WIP): https://www.uwyo.edu/as/wip.html is connected to the Neltje Center for Excellence in Creativity and the Arts: https://www.uwyo.edu/as/neltje-center/index.html
Sheridan College: https://www.sheridan.edu/
Whitney Center for the Arts: https://www.sheridan.edu/academics/arts/
New Yorker/Lincoln Financial Sponsored Video: Watch [PAID POST] Sustaining Creativity for a Lifetime | The New Yorker
New Yorker/Lincoln Financial Sponsored Article: https://www.newyorker.com/sponsored/story/sharon-louden-a-lifetime-of-championing-working-artists
*https://www.vinsonvalega.com/
*Living and Sustaining a Creative Life series of books
Twitter: @LoudenStudio**Instagram: @SharonLouden
www.sharonlouden.com
www.livesustain.org**

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This week Dorothy Dubrule catches up with Dana Bassett and Duncan, about “Being Work” her new book of essays on the performer’s experience performing art. Essays written by effie bowen, Casey Brown, Dorothy Dubrule, Jessica Emmanuel, Paul Hamilton, Allie Hankins, Kestrel Farin Leah, and Mireya Lucio. Brilliant Illustrations by Eileen Wolf Echikson.

Dorothy Dubrule is a choreographer and performer based in Los Angeles. Her choreography is often made in collaboration with people who do not identify as dancers and has been performed in theaters as well as bars, clubs, galleries, sound stages and sports arenas. She has performed in the work of artists, choreographers and directors such as alexx shilling, Alison D’Amato, Lea Anderson, Melinda Ring, Milka Djordjevich, Narcissister, Tino Sehgal and Zoe Aja Moore. Dorothy received an MFA from UCLA’s Department of World Arts and Cultures/Dance and has been the director of Pieter Performance Space since 2017. Prior to moving to LA, she danced with DIY performance collective Club Lyfestile and comedy fly-girl crew Body Dreamz in Philadelphia. A board member of Grex, the West Coast Affiliate of the AK Rice Institute for the Study of Social Systems, Dorothy organizes workshops and writes about issues of social identity and power as they arise in art contexts. Following the publication of her essay, “What I’m Doing When I’m Selling Out,” on SF MoMA’s Open Space, she is currently working with 53rd State Press to edit a collection of writing by performers who have been contracted by visual arts institutions to work in live exhibitions.

https://cargocollective.com/dorothydubrule

https://insert.press/products/being-work

https://apnews.com/article/moma-marina-abramovic-nude-imponderabilia-b3443d3706d2a46bdd02b4f08895e1d5

https://eileenechikson.com/about

Artwork by Eileen Wolf Echikson

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Paddy Johnson

Paddy Johnson, the Paddy Johnson! The Blogo-sphere legend behind Art F City joins us to talk about how to make the art world better for Artists! Her new-er venture “Netvverk” and the magic that is artists helping artists. Maybe we dish a little on the current state of arts journalism, art ed and which museum sucks at wall labels.

https://www.paddyjohnson.com/

https://netvvrk.art/

https://www.vvrkshop.art/

https://filthydreams.org/2024/01/27/why-do-biennial-curators-still-talk-like-this/

Paddy Johnson is the founder and CEO of VVrkshop, a company that helps artists get the shows, residencies, and grants of their dreams. She is the founding editor of Art F City (2005-2017) and co-founder of the public art initiative PARADE (2018-2020). Her writing has appeared CNN, The New York Times, and New York Magazine. Johnson is best known for her ability to help artists produce their best work.

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You are not what you own. Unless what we mean is art and we are guests in your house… Then you are exactly what you own. Dr. Cala Coat’s joins us for a trip into learning and her new book “New Materialisms and Embodied Encounters in Education: Curiosity’s Vital Potential.” Part art education, part 18th century journey into embodied experience, part treatise on the nature of creative… This conversation is one more step in an exploration…

https://search.asu.edu/profile/3365383
https://www.bloomsburycollections.com/monograph?docid=b-9781350278776
https://www.vicetv.com/en_us/show/hamiltons-pharmacopeia

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This week we are joined by great Chicago Artist Devin T. Mays. We talk dressing Wisconsin, Poetry, Humor, how “Everything is Everything”, and how dislocation is a meaningful strategy. We do it all live from the Salt Shed in Chicago for the “Shred at the Shed” with the Chicago Abortion Fund, Portable Gray Magazine, Quimby’s and more… Also this episode feature the first appearance of “Other Ryan.”

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This week we bring several things never meant to meet, together. *EXPO Chicago and the artist featured in Hyde Park Art Center’s booth: Farah Salem and Regina Agu. We explore personal and historic cultural lineages, trauma response, and alternative cultural teachings as they bridge the space between research and practice. Then we jump over to our dear friends at A Very Serious Gallery* and Allan Weinberger and we dance through graffiti, “high art”, kissing booths and a plea for love. All in all a single amazing day from the heartland’s greatest art fair. And don't think we didn't notice that Frieze bought it. We are just as curious as you are.

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Welcome back to a monster week at Bad at Sports. (We took an unscheduled vacation in August [cringe emoji]. This week we drop three shows the first of which is episode 851 from Kansas City with Kevin Demery. A great conversation about art, life, and the intersection of race and justice.

This conversation is amongst several you will hear in the next few weeks are brought to you through the support of Charlotte Street Foundation in Kansas City, where they are doing a remarkable job of bedrock-ing the Kansas City art world and its artists.

You should also know that you can expect us back on the radio on Wednesday with an episode from Expo Chicago. Excitingly, EXPO just sold to Frieze and what that portends for our local International Art Fair, we will do our best to find out.

And, this Friday we will drop a third show with Andrew Mcilvaine who is currently doing an exhibition with our friend and now your’s Kevin Demery.

Our friend Duncan. (He works here.) Is also hoping that we will let you know about an opportunity he and a West Coast artist and theorist, Ted Hiebert (former guest of the show) are hosting at the College Art Association conference in February 2024. They are hosting a panel on post-rational visuality and all that that could mean. How do we re situate human-ness now (post-ai, hyper bureaucratized, justly, and constantly observed and ordered), and what can those parts of being human which don’t feel rational or computable mean to us? How do we foreground them? What kinds of art allow us to get enough intellectual space that we can reflect on these conditions? If you’ve got ideas about a human future through art, they’ve got the panel for you.

Kevin Demery – http://www.kevindemery.com/

Charlotte St. Foundation – https://charlottestreet.org/

Andrew Mcilvaine – https://www.andrewmcilvaine.com/

CAA Panel “Post-Rational Visuality” With Duncan and Ted Hiebert (it is a bit of a scroll) – https://caa.confex.com/caa/2024/webprogrampreliminary/meeting.html

Sarah Higgins and Art Papers – https://www.artpapers.org/people/sarah-higgins-2/

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Live from EXPO Chicago! Kalamazoo Institute of Art Chief Curator, Rahema C Barber and artist, writer, and curator Lola Ayisha Ogbara! We chat all things Michigan and just how Kalamazoo came to be a hot bed of Michigan art and thought. Then we check in with Chicago Local Lola Ayisha Ogbara talks about her work all over EXPO, Billboards, the South Side Community Art Center, St. Louis and Chicago, and the African Diaspora.

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This week we present the last of the “lost hard drive episodes” and find the thoughtfully strength of Robert Raphael. Interviewed at NADA art fair in New York City by the brilliant Amanda Browder and the amazing Caroline Burghardt.

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This week we return to the lost hard drive and find the brilliance of Robin Kang. Interviewed at NADA art fair in New York City by Amanda Browder and Caroline Burghardt. These three brilliant humans chew their way through the history of craft and what it taught us about technology, and how that may pull us back to a human-ness from our tech, and playfully bounce around the New York art world and it's fairs. All from inside a Claire Ashley sculpture. Editing support provided by the always perfect, Martin Ortiz de Taranco.

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Today on Bad at Sports we’re presenting two panel discussions held this April as part of Minor Matters, the programming arm of Barely Fair, a 1/12th scale art fair produced by Julius Caesar at Color Club! First up, MINOR EXPORTS: Exhibition Programs Across Cities with Michelle Grabner (The Suburban, Milwaukee, Umbria), Tarik Kentouche (Scherben, Berlin), Aron Gent (DOCUMENT, Chicago, Lisbon), moderated by Josh Dihle (BARELY FAIR, Julius Caesar). After the break, SCALING UP: Emerging Artists Presented in Large-Scale Spaces with Torey Gaines (Anthony Gallery), Mickey Pomfrey (MICKEY) and Abby Pucker (GERTIE, Art in Common), moderated by Roland Miller (BARELY FAIR, Julius Caesar).

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This week on Bad at Sports we’re presenting more panel discussions from Minor Matters, the programming arm of Barely Fair, a 1/12th scale art fair produced by Julius Caesar at Color Club this April! First up, CURATORIAL CONFINES: Scaled Selections Within and Outside Institutions moderated by Scott Campbell (Independent Curators International) with panelists Nolan Jimbo (Marjorie Susman Curatorial Fellow at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago), Adia Sykes (Independent Curator) and Kate Sierzputowski.

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Today on Bad at Sports, live from inside EXPO Chicago, we try to get to the bottom of what the Monira Foundation is up to and what exactly it has to do with MANA Contemporary? So, we catch up with Anne Muntges, Director of Residencies and Grants Development. Then we are joined by the CEO of Apollo, Michael Miller and Chicago artist Sarah Raskey, and we look into the future of digital art delivery and what it would mean to have access to the world’s greatest collections from your home. Efficiency

EXPO – Chicago https://www.expochicago.com/

Monira Foundation – https://monirafoundation.org/

MANA Contemporary – https://www.manacontemporary.com/

Anne Muntges – https://www.annemuntges.com/

Apollo – https://apollo.art/

Michael Miller – https://modernluxuryinteriors.com/apollo-digital-art-platform

Sarah Raskey – https://www.sarahraskey.com/

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This week we check in with independent Curators International through Scott Vincent Campbell and Becky Nahom, and they break down the exciting curatorial connection event hosted through EXPO Chicago for the last five nine years. The conversation touches on the value of curators having an informal, yet art infused context in which to connect. All participants fail to recognize that the proper noun for a group of curators is a “hubris.” As in, “a hubris of curators approached the young artist.” This chat is a followed by LA based but Chicago drenched brilliant image maker John Knuth and we get down, full on EXPO style but with flies, as we tailgate our own booth and try to change the world one T-shirt at a time. EXPO Chicago in full effect.

EXPO – Chicago https://www.expochicago.com/

Independent Curators International – https://curatorsintl.org/

Scott Vincent Campbell – https://svcstudio.com/

Becky Nahom – https://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/arts/becky-nahom-of-halt-gallery-talks-curating-phoenixs-art-scene-and-moving-to-new-york-7286642

John Knuth – http://www.johnknuth.com/#/

Hollis Taggart – https://www.hollistaggart.com/

MOCA – https://www.moca.org/

Image care of John Knuth from https://www.hollistaggart.com/artists/36-john-knuth/

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This episode we return to the land of the lost episodes of Bad at Sports. As your friendly neighborhood art world podcasters return to action after a bit of a post EXPO meltdown, we are back in action. And in glorious preparation for NADA NYC we present two fantastic interviews we did in conjunction with NADA in Miami. Art world megaphone jaw dropper, Chloe Wise, breaks down art fashion and how we consume both and the ideas that trail in their wake. Kevin Arrow gets into what is lost as we turn away from Obsolete Media and the joy we can find in rediscovery. Amanda Browder, Tom Sanford, and Duncan MacKenzie split the hosting duties, live from inside a Claire Ashley! Big thanks to Martin for editing support.

Chloe Wise – https://www.chloewise.com/

Obsolete Media – https://miamirail.org/winter-2015/obsolete-media-miami/

Kevin Arrow – http://voyagemia.com/interview/meet-kevin-arrow/

Amanda Browder – https://www.amandabrowder.com/

NADA – https://www.newartdealers.org/

EXPO – Chicago https://www.expochicago.com/

Martin Ortiz de Taranco – https://www.martinortizdetaranco.com/

Tom Sanford – http://tomsanford.com/

Claire Ashley – https://clairehelenashley.com/

Image = Chloe Wise from Cultured Magazine https://www.culturedmag.com/article/2018/11/29/chloe-wise

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Jennifer Reeder is back! It’s been a decade since our last conversation with the legendary Chicago filmmaker, artist and educator and she has been busy! Her newest feature, Perpetrator, features (the!) Alicia Silverstone and recently premiered at the Berlinale on its way back stateside. Together with Jesse and Brian, Jennifer gets into genre, the short as form and shape, her own personal journey through different mediums and more in a rolicking and fascinating conversation.

This episode also functions as an oblique invitation to our EXPO activities and activations. If you’ll be at the fair this weekend, come visit our booth to see some exciting new realities!

https://thejenniferreeder.com/
https://www.wtfilms.fr/portfolio-item/perpetrator/
https://www.criterionchannel.com/short-films-by-jennifer-reeder
https://www.expochicago.com/

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This week Amanda and Duncan return to the magic of the passed of Bad at Sports with a brilliant interview with Molly Zuckerman-Hartung! Zuckerman-Hartung kicked off this years set of Dialogoues at EXPO Chicago! And we return to a blissfully naive pre-pandemic artworld while physically celebrating the return to form of EXPO 2023! Editing support by Martin and we did this interview inside a Claire Ashley sculpture in NYC!

Molly Zuckerman-Hartung – https://corbettvsdempsey.com/artists/molly-zuckerman-hartung/

Amanda Browder – https://www.amandabrowder.com/

NADA – https://www.newartdealers.org/

EXPO – Chicago https://www.expochicago.com/

Martin Ortiz de Taranco – https://www.martinortizdetaranco.com/

Claire Ashley – https://clairehelenashley.com/

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Amanda Browder and Duncan have a word with Mumbai based curator Sumesh Sharma! We chat about all things internationally challenging and the context for both international and American art. We cover why NADA is such an important international fair! All from inside a Claire Ashley in NYC. Editing support by Martin!

Sumesh Sharma – https://curatorsintl.org/about/collaborators/5399-sumesh-sharma

Clark House Initiative – https://www.space118.com/mapping-residencies/clark-house-initiative/

Thanks Arterritory for the image – https://arterritory.com/en/visual_arts/interviews/22636-sumesh_sharma_in_riga_the_grandson_of_a_trade_merchant_on_diversity_and_exchange/

Amanda Browder – https://www.amandabrowder.com/

NADA – https://www.newartdealers.org/

EXPO – Chicago https://www.expochicago.com/

Martin Ortiz de Taranco – https://www.martinortizdetaranco.com/

Claire Ashley – https://clairehelenashley.com/

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Once again Bad at Sports brings back a little audio that we recorded several years ago at NADA Miami which for no good reason never made it to air. We blame our day jobs but these would not have seen the light without the editing support of Martin Ortiz de Taranco!

This week we run into Chambliss Giobbi and circle around model building, portraits, the relationship between an image and its materials. Then we are treated to the driest wit in Chicago by Alex Chitty thanks to Patron Gallery! Thanks to NADA! Thanks to Claire Ashley who provided the work for our booth. And in a rare twist Dana Bassett and Tom Sanford, in the same show!

Chambliss Giobbi – https://www.chamblissgiobbi.com/

Alex Chitty – http://www.alexchitty.com/

Patron Gallery – https://patrongallery.com/

Amanda Browder – https://www.amandabrowder.com/

NADA – https://www.newartdealers.org/

EXPO – Chicago https://www.expochicago.com/

Martin Ortiz de Taranco – https://www.martinortizdetaranco.com/

Tom Sanford – http://tomsanford.com/

Claire Ashley – https://clairehelenashley.com/

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BmoreArt’s Editor-in-Chief Cara Ober joins Amanda Browder and Duncan MacKenzie in NYC at NADA NYC of yore. We express the pre-pandemic naive enthusiasm that will one day rule the world. We mine the depths of art publishing, art criticism, middle school sports, why Baltimore is a bad ass town, and why loving magazines will never be wrong!

Cara Ober – https://www.caraober.com/

BmoreArt – https://bmoreart.com/

Baltimore – https://baltimore.org/

Amanda Browder – https://www.amandabrowder.com/

NADA – https://www.newartdealers.org/

EXPO – Chicago https://www.expochicago.com/

National Museum of Women in the Arts – https://nmwa.org/blog/museum-shop/modern-makers-cara-ober/

And extra thanks to Martin Ortiz de Taranco – https://www.martinortizdetaranco.com/

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This episode we check in from New York City with two of New York’s bright lights, Carrie Gundersdorf (Teaching this summer at fan favorite summer residency, Ox-Bow) and Chloë Bass! We checked in several years ago from a boozy and brilliant NADA NYC! We talk painting and drawing, the price of eggs insurance type, compare New York and Chicago, light beyond the light and the low fi, while getting intimate and bureaucratic with our practices. And we all become Artworldees!

NADA https://www.newartdealers.org/

EXPO Chicago https://www.expochicago.com/

Carrie Gundersdorf https://carriegundersdorf.com/

Chloë Bass https://www.chloebass.com/

Ox-Bow School of Art https://www.ox-bow.org/

Sharon Louden https://www.sharonlouden.com/

Tom Sanford http://tomsanford.com/

Price of Eggs https://www.cnbc.com/2023/03/03/egg-prices-increased-70percent-over-the-last-yearheres-why-.html

Image: Carrie Gundersdorf
Betuline Cone
2022
colored pencil and watercolor on paper
23 x 22″

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Episode 834, in which we creep back into the annals of our history and pull forth a conversation which had not seen the light before, Harold Mendez. Hero to many. We talk Whitney Biennial, Cuba, Tiffany’s, and just exactly how the art world works. Thank You NADA!

https://www.newartdealers.org/

https://haroldmendez.com/

https://www.amandabrowder.com/

https://whitney.org/artists/17713

https://haroldmendez.com/filter/2017%3B-Tiffany-%26-Co.

https://icamiami.org/exhibition/harold-mendez/

Thanks to https://tamarind.unm.edu

For the image.

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A few years ago, we put together so much content in the context of NADA art Fair Miami and New York that we have been sitting on a handful of great stuff (like for years)… And you are going to get to hear it all as we get prepared for Chicago’s EXPO this spring!

Kicking it all off this week Dana and Duncan chat with Miami legend, Agustina Woodgate.

We talk…

Miami Water and Power

RADIOEE

The Whitney Biennial

Hopscotch

And so much more… Live from inside a Claire Ashley sculpture!
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https://radioee.net/

https://www.newartdealers.org/

https://clairehelenashley.com/

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Language lovers rejoice — the blab at sporkers transmit live to tape from the exhibition Glossolalia, hosted at ACRE (hosted by Drama Club) with our guests David Sprecher and Jeff Prokash. Their collaborative show, which performs a complicated material translation of an excerpt of a Franny Choi poem, is up through the weekend and includes a series of readings this Saturday (2/25/23) amidst and among their sculpture-phonemes. We talk about talking and think about thinking in what Zagat’s is calling “? ?r?li ?re?t ??ks??b???n … w?r? ?sik?? ænd ?si?? ?f ju hir w?t ?ts ?se??? ?ru ?bi?? sin …” and we’ll agree.

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This week Duncan sits down with Paul Gray in front of a live audience at Columbia College Chicago to talk about the history of Gray Gallery, the legacy of Richard Gray, how “the sausage gets made” in the art world, 60 years of supporting artists and what the next 60 years will look like, and Marcel Proust? Just another day of spectacular work for Gray Gallery, Columbia, and Bad at Sports.

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This week we come at you live from Printed Matter in New York City with Christopher Sperandio of the Kartoon Kings. We talk about his recent flurry of publications, how the pandemic has impacted publishing and the art world, the potency of Instagram, and the failure of NFTs. Max Schumann Jumps in from the audience to talk about the mission of Printed Matter and query the separation between artist book and art publication, while challenging the techniques and labor used to generate Artist books. Brilliant painter Michael Cline grabs Duncan a couple of glasses of wine because if you are talking politics and art, there has to be at least one or two drinks.

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Wowow! Around an arts and crampy table in an anonymous but lively third space in the Southern Loop of Chicago, some of our top minds and movers convene to chat about past, present and futures of Chicago DIY/DIT artist-organizing. Jesse, Duncan and eventually Ryan — slouches in their own rights — lead by following a disparate flow. A champagne bottle to share with 300 people! Leave a masterpiece, take a masterpiece! Should everything become a library? These notions and more are offered up in a freewheeling conversation that’s not to be missed.

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This week Brian and Duncan muse about color with design duo Luftwerk. The Chicago-based collaborative Petra Bachmaier & Sean Gallero entrance us into their series of sculptural light installations using botanical pigments and dynamic lights currently on view at the Chicago Cultural Center.

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This week Bad at Sports catches up with Wisconsin’s pride, the Wormfarm Institute, with Jay Salinas. We learn more about a long running experiment in arts funding between the fine states of Wisconsin and Minneapolis. We learn about how sustainable agriculture and contemporary art have found an unusual marriage, and take a D-Tour. Then we open the door two adventure and the future of contemporary placemaking, and artist run endeavors with Nicholas Wylie and Brandon Alvendia, who speculate on the future of the MdW fair and the new infrastructure we have been building together to strengthen the future of Midwestern art making.

Image of a work by Brenda Baker , photograph by Eric Bailles from the Wormfarm Institute, link below.

https://www.wormfarminstitute.org/

https://www.mdwfair.com/

https://chicagolx.org/community/members/nicholas-wylie-public-media-institute

https://www.alvendia.net/

[audio src="https://traffic.libsyn.com/badatsports/Bad_at_Sports_Episode_826_Confluence_and_Charlotte_Street.mp3"]downloadLive from our tailgate at the MdW fair we bring you part two of a series we are doing with the organizing members of the MdW and a wrap up conversation that looks at the current state of arts organizing. But this week we have Confluence Studio, Duaba Unenra and Sam Gould, then are joined by Amy Kligman of the Charlotte Street Foundation. We learn about contemporary policing practice in MN and how residents mobilize through art and stories. Then we shift over to Kansas City MO and touch the other side of artist run culture through a 25 year old entrenched arts org. Good times had by all!

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Here we are here we are finishing out our roundup with the end of our “spot check” in Calgary Alberta, Canada, and we close out with the Western Canadian performance art legend Rita McKeough.

Rita McKeough is an installation and performance artist whose practice is based in Calgary. Her work incorporates audio, electronics and mechanical performing objects. Since the late 70s,

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In this episode Duncan visited "Drumheller" in the "Badlands" of "Alberta." We learn a little about life, love, and the magic that can happen way outside the center

Jason de Haan is a multidisciplinary Canadian artist working in installation, sculpture, video, drawing, collage, photography, and bookworks. This includes the exploration of uncertain and unexpected spaces, temporal flux, natural phenomena and systems, transmissions, and open timelines, with a focus upon the points at which the invisible and residual reveal their contingencies.

Miruna Dragan is a post-conceptual artist whose work reflects themes of locality and dispersion through questions of imminence and transcendence. Operating within and between various modes of studio research including drawing, lens-based media, site-specific intervention and others, her work interprets surreal geographies through the reanimation of archetypes, myths and symbols.

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This week we check in with two members of the MdW art fair and assembly brain trust, Nicholas Wylie and Brandon Alvendia and learn a little bit about drifts. This marks a true return to form as we tailgate an art fair and record while feeding hot dogs, Marz beer, and vegetarian chili to all those true lovers of art. Then we spend a few minutes chatting with the brilliant John Engelbercht and Kalmia Strong from Iowa City's Public Space One and try and get the lowdown on what is going on in Iowa, and figure out why the art world need to know about it.

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Teresa Tam’s practice utilizes spaces and experiences that are familiar and then alters them into something a bit foreign through re-interpretation and re-creation. She likes to conceive her projects as sketches: iterations of ideas and systems rendered but never reaching finality. Her work is also developed to include and emphasize visitor interactions as integral components. She focuses on themes that touch upon alienation within nebulous belonging, the position of an individual within a community, excessive labour, and an obsession with objects that contextualize relationships and realities of diaspora individuals. She specializes in digital platforms, functional installations, all things shaped in paper, and body-based exchanges and objects. She graduated from AUArts in 2014 and is the other half of Yolkless Press.

We talk alternative and artist economy, the traditions of preforming industry, the inscription of labor, and publish artist books. Duncan learns that Teresa’s studio is in the same building as his studio from 25 years ago. That makes him feel a touch old, also they have put a lot of work into the building.

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Tamara Lee-Anne Cardinal is a mixed-media artist, community activist, and perpetual learner. Born in Lloydminster, Saskatchewan, she has been a visitor to Otôskwanihk/Mohkinstsis (Calgary) for the past nine years.

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The Earth is changing. Quickly. Should we be afraid? Or can we embrace the changes and challenges and boldly look ahead? Can we build a new, better life on this planet? Ryan and Brian sit down with curator Nick Butcher and artists Allen Moore and Kat Jarvinen of The New Earth to find out.

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Artists duo Sans façon (Charles Blanc and Tristan Surtees) began working together in 2001 in Glasgow, Scotland. Their diverse practice responds to the relationship between people and place. Collaborating with architects, composers, geographers, or perfumers, they work internationally on projects ranging from ephemeral performances, temporary installations in public space, large scale permanent artworks, to developing and implementing city wide strategies. Their approach renews awareness and tempts interaction, inviting one to look and think differently about our relationship to our surroundings and one another.

In this conversation we trace the core of Sans façon’s work and use their almost decade long residency with the City of Calgary to open up the dimensions of what is truly a unique and singularly impactful practice.

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Selina Trepp—visual musician, collage animist, radical recycler—talks time, process, performance, material and more on the occasion of An Instrument in the Shape of a Woman at the Chicago Cultural Center. Our dynamic and inspired conversation zooms through the multiplicities of ways Selina's playful practice breaks open the forms and formats she's drawn to (and drawing on). Once again we're joined by curator Annie Morse and the ambient sounds of meaning being made and publics being formed.

https://selinatrepp.info/home.html https://www.chicago.gov/city/en/depts/dca/supp_info/instrument.html

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asmaa al-issa (b. Baghdad, Iraq) immigrated to Mohkínstsis/Calgary, Alberta, Canada with her family in 2001. Her interdisciplinary practice engages her lived experiences with the land, materials, and people around her. She is continually building knowledge of recipes, traditions, philosophies, theories, and histories of the Middle East while developing her practice as an artist and educator. asmaa holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Visual Arts from the University of Calgary (2013) and a Master of Fine Arts in Interdisciplinary Studies from Simon Fraser University (2017).

Our wide ranging conversation seeks the roots of her practice and voice, post-colonialist futures, the nature of interdisciplinarity, and what we think when we speak of home.

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Today, your Bad at Sportscenterers take refuge in Diane Christiansen's room at the Chicago Cultural Center's exhibition An Instrument in the Shape of a Woman. Her enrapturing paintings and animations play tricks in the cosmic sands as we feel and laugh our way through the existential biggies, buoyed by bodies, icons and acorns. Curator Annie Morse helps lead our sense of the exhibition and takes us through the long, pandemic-wrought fraughtness that permeates the space. Part one of a three part series!

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Nura Ali’s wide-ranging practice investigates the linguistic scaffolding upholding the assumptions we bring to the act of reading and writing. We speak about her most recent exhibition, blackness, whole-ness, the power of language, and the power of cultural unions.

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Today on Bad at Sportscenter: Kelly Lloyd! Yes, that one. Kelly and Jesse sit down in the cupola at the Ox-Bow School of Art — mere hectometers from where they met almost a decade ago — to talk about practice (and practice talking), about the naming of the thing, about art education and parties. Kelly’s practice spans genre and form and most actively in this moment revolves around her research and its public instantiation, the (excellent) podcast This Thing We Call Art, for which she interviews artists about their livelihoods and labor. You can probably find it wherever you found this (including on WLPN).

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Caitlind r.c. Brown & Wayne Garrett explore the interspace between seemingly polarized entities: light + dark, nature + culture, DIY + institutional, individual + collective. Based in Calgary/Mohkinstsis, the duo centres their practice in relational space, conceptualizing installations and interventions primarily for the public realm. Their projects beckon viewers with novel materials and participatory contexts, inviting strangers to share in collaborative viewership. Beautiful, subversive, playful, and radically inclusive, their works transform the everyday through a critical shift in perspective.

We talk through hibernation, place as space, the magic of light, a physical glitch art (the show image is an image of the work "Carbon Copy", 2022)and the magic that could be in post-social practice "New Genra Public Art." Oh, and Duncan tries to defend the Stampede.

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This week, a little nod to the Lore is Ness sector of our collective imaginary as John Rossi and Mac Akin join Jesse in a conversation about their practices, their lives at the Ox-Bow School of Art and Artist Residency in Saugatuck, MI and their intersects. Through a meandering exploration of the psychic and physical, we learn more about the folk horror legend of the Prickerman, the strange shibboleths of souphead and some of what it takes to make and maintain a community of openness and improvisation.

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In this episode Duncan reaches out to Naomi Potter and the Esker Foundation to curate a series of conversations, in the hopes of evolving a portrait of the future of Calgary’s contemporary art world.

It is an idea about investigating places though conversations with artists. As though, through a series of conversations with sensitive and emblematic makers we could come to a greater understanding of a context, not just artistic practices.

It is kind of an experiment.

[audio src="https://traffic.libsyn.com/badatsports/Bad_at_Sports_Episode_807_Laura_Letinsky.mp3"] download Is it ever possible to escape the language that contains us? Or find joy while subverting myths? Laura Letinsky breaks down her practice in photography and ceramics with Ryan and Brian on this week's Bad at Sports.

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This week Maryam Taghavi casts a spell over Brian and Duncan. Will they recover? We don't know. What we know is this... Taghavi plays and pulls codes at the edge of beauty and language. What about languages beyond languages?

In her work she uses and recreates a language of the occult practices derived from Islamic mysticism. Her sigils promise to evoke real and active metaphysical powers. These forms become channels, lovely and beyond form itself – concept to volition, presence to absence. The works are a wish invoked. The conversation a wish fulfilled. Will Brian and Duncan ever be the same?

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The Bad at Sports crew is joined by Azadeh Gholizadeh. Her works explore the body, landscape, and the fragmentation of memory. Her works use weaving and needle work to generate and worry her images and objects. The works call to mind a powerful connection to place and dismantle that connection through a glitchy digital memory and build towards a reassembled experience. Azadeh Gholizadeh is a Chicago-based artist and educator, and a 2022 Artadia awardee.

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Splitting her time between Spain and Chicago, Selva Aparicio is a research based interdisciplinary artist, whose work includes sculpture, installation and performance. On today’s episode of Bad at Sports Center, Jesse and Ryan speak with Selva following the announcement of her 2022 Artadia Award. We discuss the origins of her medical research, the ethical means by which she sources her materials, and the context of community and place in her practice.

https://www.selvaaparicio.com/ https://artadia.org/awards/

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On today’s harrowing episode of Bad at Sports Center we are back in the WLPN studio (and we brought our old mixing board bumbles with us)! Polish-born artist, Inga Danysz, and gallerist, Hayes Riley, join Jesse and Ryan to discuss Danysz’s solo exhibition In Ancient Rome at Good Weather. We discuss the materiality and ontology of Danysz’s sculptural sarcophagi, and our orientation to the physical and metaphysical space they delineate. We also accept the fact that puns have been and will continue to be a part of our process.

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Bad at Sports welcomes Ashanté Kindle and Josie Love Roebuck from LatchKey Gallery and their exhibition "CROWN" at Expo Chicago 2022.

Working from a place of healing, "CROWN" explores and rejoices in the legacy of Black hair. The exhibition, named after the CROWN Act - a law that prohibits race-based hair discrimination which is the denial of employment and educational opportunities because of hair texture or protective hairstyles including braids, locs, twists or bantu knots - luxuriates in the scope, range, beauty, and legacy that is black hair.

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This week the Midwest's greatest contemporary art podcast crew have what can only be described as an "encounter" with one of the Midwest's greatest living artists, Chis Larson! Hailing from St. Paul Minnesota, Larson's newest body of work started its life in Tennessee and slowly spun and wove its way to Engage Projects, Chicago. Taking up a former manufacturing space Larson asks that we consider our relationship to labor from the intimate to the global supply chain in a triumph of an exhibition. The Residue of Labor, April 8 - May 21, 2022

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Gio Swaby is a Bahamian Toronto based visual artist whose work explores and celebrates Blackness and womanhood. Her elegant thread based portraits centres on Black joy as a radical act of resistance. Through love as liberation she explores pathways of healing and empowerment through conversation and observational drawing, allowing the strong and soft to coexist beautifully.

https://www.gioswaby.com/ https://www.claireoliver.com/artists/giovanna-swaby/

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This week on Bad at Sports, Kera MacKenzie and Andrew Mausert-Mooney, the filmmakers behind Make A Distinction, join Jesse and the Block Museum’s Curator of Media Arts, Mike Metzger. Make A Distinction is an innovative, hybrid non-fiction feature that blends together strains of essayistic, observational and agitprop filmmaking into a blistering montage. Political in a capital P way, it’s urgent for most everyone, especially those of us in the so-called Chicago universe.

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It's the first week in April and that means its time for EXPO Chicago. Brian chats with the fair's director Tony Karman about returning from the pandemic after two and a half years and how best to get into the art amid all the hubbub. And for our second trick we bring in Kate Sierzputowski to chat EXPO programing, community engagement, and the Barely Fair!

Almost as jam packed as art weekend 2022!

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BEN FOCH! Marc LeBlanc? Grumpy digital skepticism? NFT revolution? Crypto currency wrestled with? EXPO party power? Hood Ornament? The Cult of the Cheetah revealed. It is quite the adventure. Pay attention nonbeliever because we live in the future.

Ben Foch

Marc LeBlanc

Cult of the Cheetah

EXPO Chicago

Episode 796: Rachel Adams and the Bemis!
Episode 795: EXPO returns! And the Barely Fair!
TOP V. WEEKEND PICKS (1/21-1/27)
TOP V FROM EXPO CHICAGO
Episode 597: Marc LeBlanc Returns!

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This week Bad at Sports Center checks in with Chicago photo super hero Jessica Labatte and a coterie of Northern Illinois University students (Alex Dulski, Edwin Perez-Hernandez, and Emma Vitallo) as they work towards the construction of the world’s largest paper snowflake.

Names Dropped:

Barbara Kasten

Ross Sawyers

Jessica Stockholder

Dan Peterman

Gaylen Gerber

Iowa

Guiness Book of World Records

Western Exhibitions

10 Picks for the Gallery Season Opener
Bad at Art Forum #3: Buckets as Well as Jewels
TOP V. WEEKEND PICKS (1/13-1/19)
TOP V. WEEKEND PICKS (12/9-12/15)
Episode 773: Jessica Campbell

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Today on Bad at Sports, special Guest Host Mel Cook joins Jesse for a lively conversation with Neal Vandenbergh. Neal has an alluring and excellent exhibition that calls itself Landscape with a Man Killed by a Snake at Mickey Gallery up through April 10th. We move through Neal’s practice, talk form, talk politics, talk process and laugh a bit.

https://www.mickey.online/

https://www.mickey.online/landscape-with-a-man-killed-by-a-snake

https://melcookart.com/home.html

https://www.instagram.com/wizard_neal/

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TOP V. WEEKEND PICKS (11/5-11/11)
Top 5 Weekend Picks (6/29 & 6/30) –
Top 5 Weekend Picks! (8/12-8/14)
Episode 355: Ken Fandell and Christy Matson

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Mark Bazer joins us to talk about the 12 years he has been doing The Interview Show live from the Hideout and on their broadcast partner WTTW. We talk about the interview and how best to knock it out of the park.

Selected Names Dropped:

Jeff Tweedy and Wilco

Scott Thompson

Shannon Stratton

YouTube

John Green

Fire Marshal

Hamza Walker

Walker Art Center

Jehra Patrick

Cargo Space

Chris Sperandio

ACRE Residency

The Poor Farm

Michelle Grabner

Got Room for One More Plug?
Richard and Duncan at “Public Culture” Lecture at ThreeWalls Tuesday Night!
Episode 429: Michael Velliquette and Oliver Warden
TOP V. WEEKEND PICKS (2/28-3/6)
Banksy Takes Over The Bristol Museum

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This week Brian and Ryan Roundtable with Asha Iman Veal, Tulika Ladsariya, and Mike Nourse of the Center program at Hyde Park Art Center. Antics ensue in discussions of life as a mid-career artists in Chicago and the exhibition Dream.

Episode 790: Lan Tuazon
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Episode 732: Indoor Recess with Amanda Williams
TOP V. WEEKEND PICKS (4/17-4/24)

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On this week’s Bad at SportsCenter we chatter about with Lan Tuazon. A Chicago-based sculptor, Tuazon discusses the culmination of her 10 year trilogy, Shift in the Order of Things, recently concluding at the Hyde Park Art Center. From Michael Reynolds’ Earthship to Alfred Heineken’s brick bottles, we unpeel a metaphorical onion to reveal the genius at the center of this epic series of “documentation sculpture”. Also, Jesse dubs the nickname “Chi Chi” for this human settlement we call Chicago. Call in and let us know your thoughts.

Inside the Outside: Richard Loving and Eleanor Spiess-Ferris at Hyde Park Art Center
Time Bound: An Interview with Mark Jeffery
Art Center’s Mischief Night
Christophe Roberts’ Nike Shoe Box Sculptures
Two Will Enter But Only One Will Leave

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This week’s Bad at SportsCenter guest is Chicago expat Aaron Delehanty, a painter/sculptor and “dioramacist” based in Rochester, NY. Taking from his experience at Chicago’s Field Museum and the Rochester Museum & Science Center, Delehanty’s Loud Cow Studio fabricates dioramas, replicas, models and murals.

In addition to his most recent drawings and sculptures, we discuss the narrative of the natural world, name dropping Freidrich Heinrich Alexander Von Humboldt and Carl Akeley, and discuss some of Delehanty’s upcoming projects with Maria’s Packaged Goods and the state of Vermont.

Episode 678: BFAMFAPhD Artist Run Spaces.
Episode 496: Justin Cooper
Episode 455: Prospect New Orleans
Episode 445: Katy Hamer Fair Roundup!(TM)
Episode 438: Skylar Fein

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This week Bad at Sports gets back to trying to figure out NFTs and our Meta future with the help of Richard Holland, esq., Michael Kellogg, and Jennifer Kellogg.

Welcome to the future humans.

Names Dropped:

Viridian House

Neal Stephenson

Ready Player One

Cars.com

Cornell

Bob Dylan

Warped Tour

Jam Productions

Foundation

Nifty Gateway

Makersplace

Open Sea

Decentraland

Meta

Mark Zuck

Second Life

Bad at Art Forum #2: Cosmologies and the Artists Who Build Them
Episode 784: Return to Miami 2021
Episode 782 Iris Bernblum
Episode 771: Foundation with Kayvon Tehranian and Lindsay Howard
Episode 770: Tom Burtonwood and Holly Holmes Terrain 2021, Sabina Ott, and NFT making and collecting

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David Antonio Cruz unpacks his work and process for Tom Sanford and Duncan MacKenzie at Art Basel Miami

with Monique Meloche. Then Dana B returns with all the T.

Names Dropped:

The Corner

The Center for Subtropical Affairs

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Episode 785: Miami Day 2 NADA
EDITION #22
Episode 784: Return to Miami 2021
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Episode 750: Michael Anderson RIP

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Return to Miami continues with our second day at the NADA fair. We rock the mic with Claudine Ise, Pedro Pedro, and Cash 4. Names dropped:

Goldfinch

Mari Eastman

Em Kettner

907 Crew

UFO

SMELLS

Stickymonger

Sickid

Trice

Lorenzo Lozini

The Deuce

Ryan Schneider

Rebecca Morgan

Ridley Howard

Holly Coulis

Sam Keller

Scott Ogden (SHRINE Gallery)

Rob Ober

David Antonio Cruz

Monique Meloche

and and THE BEMIS CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY ART!

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Episode 234: NADA 4 Awai/Blass
Episode 228: NADA part 1 – Heather Hubbs and Chris Duncan

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Today we drop down in Miami and chat NFTs with John Lee, Tom Sanford, and technologist Amol.

We also reveal that we are rolling with the mysterious graffiti artist Snoeman.

Episode 788: Richard Holland and Viridian House
Episode 786: David Antonio Cruz and Dana Bassett
Episode 782 Iris Bernblum
Episode 770: Tom Burtonwood and Holly Holmes Terrain 2021, Sabina Ott, and NFT making and collecting
Episode 767: Ben Davis on NFTs

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On this week’s Jess(i)e-fest, Jessie Mott joins Jesse and non-Jess(i)e Ryan in the studio to talk about her upcoming exhibition at the Epiphany Center for the Arts, Like Queer Animals:We Hold Your Gaze, a collaboration with queer scholar Chanal Nadeau. We yak about the origins of Mott’s aberrant animals, in all of their forms, including paintings, publications and animations. Take a listen on the wild side.

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