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Bad at Sports Episode 599: Aay Preston-Myint Sep 07, 2017

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Aay Preston-Myint joins Brian and Dana this week to discuss the alternative publishing imprint, No Coast (http://no-coast.org/), and their newest endeavor, the Chicago Art Book Fair (http://cabf.no-coast.org/), coming for the first time to the Chicago Athletic Association November 16-19th. Preston-Myint schools us on some Chicago apartment gallery history and we discuss dinosaurs, the end. Tune in next week for more shenanigans as Chicago's art "season" officially revs up!

Bad at Sports Episode 598: The Floating Museum Sep 04, 2017

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A Monumental episode featuring the full Co-Directing cast of The Floating Museum, Faheem Majeed, Jeremiah Hulsebos-Spofford, Andrew Schachman, and Avery R. Young. We parley over a loving critique of the traditional museum model, setting our sites on the whole city of Chicago for the foundation of a new museum.

Docked in it's penultimate port, the Floating Museum' barge can currently be found at Chicago's Riverwalk in analog space, and at www.floatingmuseum.org on the high seas of the interweb.

Shout outs to Megan Sauve, Development Director and Kate Schlachter, Project Manager of The Floating Museum.

Bad at Sports Episode 597: Marc LeBlanc Returns! Aug 05, 2017

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A former contributor returns as guest. Marc LeBlanc is back and Chicago could not be more excited. We check in about his adventures in Berlin with Kavi Gupta Gallery and LA with the LA Contemporary, and now what the future M LeBlanc Gallery will be.

We also learn a word with Ryan Peter Miller and discuss the MCA kickstarting Michael Rakowitz's Enemy Kitchen as part of his mid career retrospective.

Bad at Sports Episode 596: Mauser and Albright Jul 24, 2017

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This is a great week at Bad @ Sports Center if you were born under the sign Cancer. Painter Nicole Mauser and Artist/Graphic Designer Tobey Albright scuttle through the studio to discuss their upcoming curatorial endeavor, Privates, at Carthage College.

http://www.nicolemauser.com/

http://tobeyalbright.com

If today is your birthday, treat yourself to a delicious podcast.

Kinematic

Nicole Mauser

Acrylic and oil on canvas

30in x 28in x 1in

2011

Photo credit: Tom Van Eynde

It's a Wonderful Life, Tobey

Tobey Albright

German graphite on paper

42 3/4 x 33"

2012

Bad at Sports Episode 595: Coco Picard Jul 18, 2017

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This week Bad at sports center was joined by Caroline (Coco) Picard to talk through her most recent graphic novel, "The Chronicles of Fortune."

http://www.cocopicard.com/

We also catch up about the goings on at Sector 2337 and the Green Lantern Press.

Oh and there is always the specter of the anthropocene.

http://sector2337.com/

http://sector2337.com/green-lantern-press/about-the-green-lantern-press/

Bad at Sports Episode: 594 Candida Alvarez Jun 21, 2017

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In this episode we track the musings and mellifluous tones of Candida Alvarez. Her retrospective is at the Chicago Cultural Center, her work has been included in the Kemper Survey of contemporary abstraction, and her work with COMME des GARÇONS is just about to drop!

We trace the ins and outs of domesticity, abstraction, hallucinatory practices, poetics, Bruce Rauner's policies towards art and education, and the current Michael Bonesteel controversy at SAIC.

Bad at Sports Episode 593: Third Object Jun 16, 2017

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This shiny new episode of Bad @ Sports Center spotlights curator Raven Munsell. We chat about her latest curatorial project with 3rd Object, titled Sneaker Boy Dreams, from artist Ashley Teamer. Munsell also sheds some light on the ACRE inspired exhibit at Heaven Gallery, Summer Sessions, before we dive deep into all that is ACRE. And finally, the light at the end of this illuminating tunnel, is a discussion of the dearly departed, bumper sticker bonanza, Trunk Show. All this and not a single bad word.

http://www.thirdobject.net/exhibitions/ http://www.heavengallery.com/ http://www.acreresidency.org/ http://trunkshowtrunkshow.tumblr.com/

Bad at Sports 592: P.O.W.E.R Project and the Comfort Station Jun 09, 2017

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Triple Exclamation Points. B@SC presents the top of the call sheet for the P.O.W.E.R. Project. In addition to being the acronym to end all acronyms - Preparation, Organization, Wonderment, Empowerment, Resistance – this project is the brilliant baby of the Comfort Station and the Art Leaders of Color Network (ACLN). Jordan Martins discusses the origin story of the Comfort Station, Felicia Holman spills about her Honey Pot Performance, and Nina Yeboah tells the tale of her project, Africa Reads Chicago.

http://www.comfortstationlogansquare.org/

https://www.facebook.com/artleadersofcolornetwork/ https://www.honeypotperformance.com/

http://chi-readingafrica.tumblr.com/about

We steeped some T, discussing the spectacle that is MCA's Murakami exhibition.

We got to take our Duncan MacKenzie surrogate, Jesse Malmed, for a test drive.

And above all, we celebrated the life, death and birthday of the purple one himself, PRINCE.

Bad at Sports Episode: 591 Erin Jane Nelson Jun 05, 2017

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ERIN JANE NELSON!!!

The Psycopomp-er herself checks in do discuss Animal cognition, human speciesism, Aron Gent, threats to an Open Society, Fivver, Quilts, Jacquard fabric printing technology, operating as an artist and as an institution!

http://sexmagazine.us/sexlife/erin-jane-nelson-at-hester/

http://psychopompopolis.net/

http://documentspace.com/exhibitions/erin-jane-nelson/

And the T...

Sam Durant and the Walker vs. everyone else

http://www.startribune.com/read-artist-sam-durant-s-full-statement-on-scaffold-controversy/425141933/

Theaster Gates vs. the South Side Weekly

https://southsideweekly.com/cracks-in-theaster-gates-rebuild-foundation/

Prospect 4?

https://www.bestofneworleans.com/thelatest/archives/2017/05/23/prospect4-artists-announced-trevor-schoonmaker-previews-expo

Bad at Sports Episode 590: Naima Keith and Ian Weaver May 26, 2017

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This week we check in with Naima Keith and Ian Weaver...

Naima Keith Deputy Director of Exhibits and Programs at the California African American Museum and Chicago Art rocker and roller Ian Weaver join the show to talk about the Artadia Granting program, (COOK COUNTY - YOUR ARTADIA APPLICATIONS ARE DUE ON THE FIRST OF JUNE,) Museum Challenges, tindering artists, programing at CAAM, Pilsen and the Little Village, inventing histories for communities which have suffered erasure, the Black Knight Archive, and how facing the past helps us find the future.

The T is rich this week with a bizarre and public fight on Facebook between two prominent Chicago Art worlders, the South Side Weekly digs deep into Theaster Gate's Rebuild Foundation, and the Chicago Torture Justice Center Opens today!

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