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Bad at Sports Episode 138: Next Art Fair Apr 20, 2008

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The 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 Apr 13, 2008

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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 Apr 06, 2008

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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 Mar 30, 2008

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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 Mar 23, 2008

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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 Mar 17, 2008

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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 Mar 09, 2008

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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 Mar 02, 2008

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This week, Amanda and Tom Sanford talk to Shaun O'Dell and Emily Prince about Shaun's show "We Remember the Sun? at the Susan Inglett Gallery.

Shaun O'Dell makes drawings, videos, music and sometimes sculpture. His work explores the intertwining realities of the human and natural orders. O'Dell has exhibited his work at many venues, including the Jack Hanley Gallery in San Francisco and Los Angeles, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, UCLA Hammer Museum, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Whitebox in New York, and the Marianne Boesky Gallery in New York. His work is held in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, M.H. deYoung Memorial Museum and the Berkeley Art Museum. O'Dell received his MFA from Stanford University. He is the recipient of the 2006 Diebenkorn Teaching Fellowship from the San Francisco Art Institute, 2005 Artadia Award, 2004 SECA Award from the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and a 2002 Fleishhacker Foundation Award. He is currently teaching at University of California, Berkeley and California College of the Arts, and is the co-organizer of The New New Masses, a lecture series on Art and Politics.

SHAUN O'DELL We Remember the Sun Susan Inglett Gallery 522 W. 24 St. New York, NY 10011

February 15th - March 15th

Bad at Sports Episode 130: Stephanie Smith-Adaptation Feb 24, 2008

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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 Smart Museum in Chicago about the current exhibition Adaptation: Video Installations by Ben-Ner, Herrera, Sullivan, and Sussman & The Rufus Corporation. Holy guacamole am I sick this week, yuck. One of the joys of having a child in daycare.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.

Bad at Sports Episode 129: Hou Hanru Feb 16, 2008

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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.

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