Bad at Sports

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Bad at Sports Episode: 836 Cara Ober and BmoreArt Mar 31, 2023

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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/

Bad at Sports Episode 835: Carrie Gundersdorf and Chloë Bass Mar 28, 2023

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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"

Bad at Sports Episode 834: Harold Mendez Mar 21, 2023

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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.

Bad at Sports Episode 833: Agustina Woodgate Mar 08, 2023

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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!

https://agustinawoodgate.com/

https://radioee.net/

https://www.newartdealers.org/

https://clairehelenashley.com/

PS. Dana makes a joke at the end that you have to hear, little does she know… no one really gets out. Once you are Bad at Sports, you just are.

Bad at Sports Episode 832: David Sprecher & Jeff Prokash Feb 22, 2023

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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 "ə ˈrɪli ɡreɪt ˌɛksəˈbɪʃən ... wɜrθ ˈsikɪŋ ænd ˈsiɪŋ ɪf ju hir wɑt ɪts ˈseɪɪŋ θru ˈbiɪŋ sin …" and we'll agree.

https://davidsprecher.org/home.html

https://www.jeffprokash.com/

https://www.acreresidency.org/exhibition/glossolalia

Bad at Sports Episode: 831 Paul Gray and Gray Gallery Feb 14, 2023

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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, Coulumbia, and Bad at Sports.

Bad at Sports Episode 830: Chris Sperandio, Printed Matter, and Max Schumann Jan 31, 2023

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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.

Bad at Sports Episode 829: Meg Duguid, Brandon Alvendia, Nick Wylie Post-MDW Local Organizer Rectangle Table Discussion Jan 25, 2023

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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.

Bad at Sports Episode 828: Luftwerk Jan 17, 2023

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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.

Bad at Sports Episode 827: Wormfarm Institute and MdW Dec 07, 2022

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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/

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