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Bad at Sports Episode 43: Blunt Art Text Jun 25, 2006

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This Week:Episode 43: 3 Three Editors from Blunt Art TextBAT Magazine: Blunt Art Text. Like ninjas of art journalism, theseevil doers sneak around and do smart, thoughtful reviews and publishthem in their journal. We thought we had the drop on them, but nopethe lights when out and Richard and I found ourselves tied together,laying on train tracks. Who knew Richard was born with a prehensiletail? It was a close one. Enjoy.Oh Yeah, BAT is Elijah Burgher, Julia Marsh and William Staples.Richard would like to note next to them, "[we] seem even dumber than usual."DON'T FORGET:We are being auctioned off at Phyllis's Musical Inn onThursday the 29th to benefit 40000.AND TOTALLY, OH MY GOD!!! Duncan and Richard are announcing the firstannual art-world Kickball Tournament July 1st at Noon in Wicker Park.Watch the blog for details.

BAT 40000 Gallery James Rondeau Raymond Pettibon Lane Relyea Michelle Grabner Philip VonZweck Scott Speh Richard Rezac Rhona Hoffman Monique Meloche Gallery Brice MardenAlegon GalleryMaxmilian SchubertBanks Violette David Altmejd Butcher Shop Dogmatic Gallery Luis Gispert Bucket Rider Gallery Jon Beasley Alison Ruttan Wendy Cooper Gallery ZoÃ�Â« Charlton Kara Walker Lisa Yuskavage John Currin David Hockney Julia Marsh Elijah Burgher William Staples Robert Rainey Chicago Cultural Center Shannon Stratton and Lisa Boumstein-Smalley Booster and Seven Jeremy Boyle Bodybuilder and Sportsman Gallery Quimby's Bookstore Museum of Contemporary Art Bookstore ThreeWalls Jeff Ward Marc Fischer Gregg PerkinsKelly ShiBrandon Larson

Time Out Chicago!! Jun 22, 2006

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Bad at Sports Episode 42: The Shark bites! Jun 18, 2006

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Wesley Kimler (painter, agitator, and co-founder of http://www.sharkforum.org) slices and dices the Chicago art world. Ouch. Wesley gives us the skinny on being an artist in Chicago, who is ruining the Chicago art world, and what we can do to start turning it all around. The man is not afraid to name names and calls for the heads of many a Chicago Art world insider. Chicago, meet the "Shark." Lets hope we are not his foe.ALSO: In theory, we will be in this week's Time Out Chicago!!! Bad at Sports will be on auction for the 40000 moving support fund at Phyllis' Musical Inn (1800 W. Division St.) June 29th from 7-10pm (featuring a silent art and us auction and the musical stylings of Oh Charles!)Why not throw a vote in for us at Podcast Alley. We would love you a little more and it would delight Duncan's Parents: Vote For Us! Thank You. I love you!Links

sharkforum.org Wesley Kimler New York Times Sabrina Raaf 40000 Oh Charles Ed Paschke William "Bill" Conger UIC, Art Dept Northwestern Art Dept.School of the Art Institute Museum of Contemporary ArtRobbin Lockett Gallery: There are no links but She seems to have shown almost everyone conceptually driven examples include Chris Wool, Stephen Prina, Gaylen Gerber, Ken Lum, John Currin, James Casebere, and Hirsch Perlman. Duncan wonders if she could have really been that stupid. Whatever happened to her?Mitchell Kane Howard and Donna Stone The Whitney Museum of American Art Documenta Chicago Reader Judith Kirshner James Rondeau Susanne Ghez Flash Art Francesco Bonami Collaboraction Ant Farm Project Artaud Theater Mark Strand Sandro Miller NOVA Michael Workman Art Basel Miami MySpace Red Moon Theater Paul Klein Tony Fitzpatrick Chicago Art Project David Roth Lynne Warren Elizabeth Smith Luc Tuymans Elizabeth Peyton David Salle Julian Schnabel John Currin Richard Avedon Lydia Donna Jerry Salz Roberta Smith Robert Storr William De Kooning Joan Mitchell Alan Artner (article "The Fly Boys")Kerry James Marshall Mccormick Place Dzine Dan Ramirez Susan Doremus Robert Heinecken James Yood Soren Kierkegaard Edward Kienholz Michel Foucault Walter Hopps Ludwig Wittgenstein Ad Reinhart The Met Robert Hughes Lucien/Lucian Freud Mike Kelley Claire Pentecost Hubert Marcuse Henry Gibson Jeffrey Deitch Art Star Chris Sperandio John Altoon Philip Guston Alejandro Escovedo (Orchestra)Leonardo Da Vinci You Know it!

There is so much wrong with this story, I don't know what to think... Jun 18, 2006

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This story is so damn weird I don't know what to think...why do this...what would you do with them....people actually paid money to see that movie....what next?!?!From the Chicago TribuneEmployee charged in theft at galleryArtist, suspect know vastly different fameBy Charles SheehanTribune staff reporterPublished June 18, 2006An artist whose work has become a hot commodity after it was featured prominently in the movie "The Break-Up" was the victim of a break-in at her Chicago gallery.Investigators now say it was an inside job. On Saturday a Cook County Criminal Court judge ordered an intern from Francine Turk Gallerie held on $50,000 bail.Michael Gutweiler, 23, a graphic arts student at Columbia College, said nothing during his hearing before Judge Thomas Hennelly. Gutweiler has been charged with felony burglary.Turk said that since her work appeared in the condominium at the heart of the Chicago-based film starring Jennifer Anniston and Vince Vaughn, collectors have been snapping up everything she creates."It's just been such a frenzy with people grabbing my work left and right that I can't make it fast enough," she said. "I think he saw the frenzy, and one thing led to another."Witnesses said two men in black ski masks smashed through a glass front door at 7 a.m. Tuesday in the South Loop gallery, grabbed 10 paintings and sped off in a maroon van, Officer Kristina Schuler said.The paintings have not been found, and nobody else has been charged, police said.Gutweiler, who grew up in St. Louis, was the subject of a 2004 profile in the Tribune.On Oct. 19, 1998, St. Louis Rams defensive end Leonard Little ran a stoplight in a sport-utility vehicle and smashed into the car driven by Susan Gutweiler, Michael Gutweiler's mother.She died 12 hours later. Michael Gutweiler was 15 at the time.Little pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter and was sentenced to 90 days in jail, 4 years' probation and 1,000 hours' community service.In an interview with Tribune sports columnist Rick Morrissey, Gutweiler said that his mother's death had ruined his life.He told Morrissey that after the accident, he quit playing ice hockey and soccer. He withdrew from friends and stopped taking medication for Tourette's syndrome, he said.Turk said she posted a job for a summer intern on the Columbia College Web site seeking help in the wake of her newfound fame.Gutweiler was hired in May, she said.Detectives told her almost immediately that the theft was an inside job and asked Turk for a list of employees.Court documents say Gutweiler had a pellet gun tucked in his waistband. The gun may have been used to shoot out the glass front door, police said.Gutweiler is scheduled to appear in court again June 23.Calls to Gutweiler's father's home in St. Louis were not returned Saturday.

feel the love! Jun 18, 2006

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From Art or Idiocy?RE: Maureen Gallace Anonymous said...

i think these paintings are really great. i think bad at sports needs to start actually looking at the work and stop being so frickin lazy! stomping around and cussing will never give them a critical edge.and there street cred is crap anyways.

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Anonymous said...

Wah Wah Wah, we didn't like the painting you like, waah. How dare we not like something, particularly these flacid, dull, technically mediocre paintings. You're right, our opinion makes us lazy, damn right, how dare we not like something you like! Street cred, we have street cred?!?! I seriously doubt it, any notion of that is probably crap, our audience couldn't fill a bus. Stop crying and challenge us to a fight you coward.Bad at Sports

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Student industriousness at its best Jun 18, 2006

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http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_1879263.html?menu=Art student knits her own ferrari!

Bad at Sports Episode 41: Blathering Jun 12, 2006

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Oh dear. It is a review-a-ton. For those of you who wondered why Duncan had been muzzled as of late, your answer is here as he and Amanda rant with willful abandon (mostly Duncan). Once again he brings shame to his family as we review shows at VON ZWECK, The Mars Gallery, NOVA, Garden Fresh, Live Box, Kasia Kay, Navta Schulz Gallery, Rowland Contemporary, Schopf Gallery, and Three Walls. Ouch. Not a lot of love here. But so far everyone is still alive."Negative" this you blogosphere jerks.

That British Journal that Duncan Spoke of Rhona Hoffman Gallery Corbett vs. Dempsey Olivia Schreiner Rowland Contemporary Stan Douglas Lora Fosberg Linda Warren Gallery Edward Muybridge Barry Anderson Steve Hamann Schopf Gallery on Lake Amy Devoogd Bruce Campbell Ben Potter Navta Schulz Gallery VON ZWECK Hyeyun Park LiveBox Gallery Sabrina Raaf Wendy Cooper Gallery Stelarc Annette Messager Three Walls Joseph Kohnke Miklos P. Simon Alee Peoples Ben Driggs Seth Hunter NOVA: Unexpected Token Show Garden Fresh Gallery Dana Sperry Ashley Bickerton Robin Assner Eleanor Spiess-Ferris Jerry Bleem Wizard Island Aron Packer Gallery Mars Gallery Heaven Gallery Tom Selleck Japeth Mennes Katherine Bowman

Bad at Sports Episode 40: Dominic Molon Jun 03, 2006

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This week we corner MCA Chicago Curator and generally popular guy, Dominic Molon. We ask him about Wolfgang Tillmans and what the MCA thinks it's doing for Chicago Art. Joy Division! Photography! The Challanges of the '12x12' project! What is wrong with the 12 x 12 series? Dominic explains whose fault it really is that Chicago Artists are not getting out there. We also discuss the latest installment of the Focus series: Maureen Gallace. Duncan and Richard again "shit" the bed with formal and public apologies to Museum Curators and please, let this stand as our apology to the little people out there: We meant no disrespect. Your size is just... just... just... funny? Is it OK to admit that in this sort of thing? Duncan and Richard are stupid, is that OK? Amanda is lovely, so it's OK if she is occasionally slow. Oh yeah, and Duncan grossly miscalculates his role at Bad at Sports and tries to fire everyone. He is still begging to get back on the show and we'll have to see about that.Next Week: it is Angry Letter time as The Boys and Girl hit the streets for a review frenzie. For some reason there is lots of naughty language in this show, not for the sensitive listeners, as if we had them.

MCA Chicago Dominic Molon Wolfgang Tillmans 12 x 12 Lane Rayela Maureen Gallace Minikiss Midgets Art or Idiocy? Lisa Dorin Marc Pascale Chris Cunningham Quintessential (yes I know I used it wrong) Jurgen Teller ID Magazines Index Magazine PS1 Morrissey Galerie Daniel Buchholz LA Hammer Museum Russell Furguson Sharon Lockhart Mark Wigley Peter Savill Joy Division New Order Randolph Street Gallery Independent Curators International Situation Comedy Julie Rodrigues Widholm James Rondeau Michael Asher Hamza Walker Art Institute of Chicago Renaissance Society Bread Alan Artner Venice Biennial Armory Show Art|Basel South by Southwest James Yood biennale of Sydney Bienal de Sao Paulo Biennale of Montreal Douglas Gordon Rodney Graham Jeff Wall Glasgow Steven Shearer Brian Jungen Janet Cardiff Toronto Art Chicago Project Room Kavi Gupta Monique Meloche Rhona Hoffman Bodybuilder and Sportsman Michelle Grabner Bicycle Thief NADA Hether Hubbs Tom Friedman Arturo Herrera Copenhagen Art Peter Land Ann Lislegaard Michael Elmgreen and Ingar Dragset Joachim Koester Guards Self Esteem for Boys Everyone's Fired Fuck You Jackass From Richard

Bad at Sports Episode 39: Lane Relyea part deux! May 27, 2006

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Lane Relyea is back for more mirth, music, and mayhem. What is the future of art criticism? What is wrong with art students today? Are we too hung up on artist from the 80's? Are you wrong for holding a day job? Is Pollock mainstream? Is Death Cab for Cutie lame compared to the Postal Service? Why is Lane so hung up on ties? Is Amanda pregnant? Does Richard have three weeks to live? Will Duncan ever be allowed to use the mic? All of these questions and so much more talked about in this action packed sequel to Episode 32.

Gaylen Gerber Jeanne Dunning Judy Ledgerwood Tony Tasset Lane Relyea Michelle Grabner Barnett Newman Death Cab for Cutie Postal Service Iron and Wine Cat Power Elliot Smith Kurt Varnedoe Nicholas Serota Jackson Pollack Van Gogh Eva Hesse Felix Gonzalez Torres Donald Judd Carolee Schneemann Marlon Brando Tennesse Williams Franz Kline Robert Smithson Rikrit Tiravanija Dave Hickey BAT Wolfgang Tillmans Laura Owens David Salle Hal Foster Rosalind Krauss Craig Owens Douglas Crimp Tom Lawson Eric Fischl Douglas Huebler John Baldessari Brett Bloom

Bad at Sports Episode 38: James Yood May 21, 2006

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Richard, Duncan and Amanda venture off to the lovely home of James Yood, critic of Artforum, and professor at SAIC. We talk about the raw humorless power of the Chicago art scene and reminice about days gone by.....oh boy. Houston checks in!

James Yood Artforum SAIC Fred Camper The Chicago Reader Art News New Art Examiner Art Chicago Ivan Albright George Bellows John Sloan Thomas Eatkins Thomas Blackman Mark Lyman Michael Workman Paul Klein Imagists Gaylen Gerber Jeanne Dunning Roger Brown Ed Paschke Frank Lloyd Wright Museum of Contemporary Art Bodybuilder & Sportsman Mess Hall Vermeer Rembrandt Corbett vs. Dempsey Whitney Biennial Venice Biennale Irving Sander Walker Art MuseumSensation ExhibitionBob CozzolinoDudley HupsteaderPenn Academy The Met Hilton Kramer Leon Golub Upton Sinclair Art Letter Sharkforum New City MagazinePanelhouse is DeadIcon Betty Rymer Gallery Jasper Johns Laura Lark Sandra Dillon Art Guys Rhona Hoffman Gallery Philip Pearlstein Stanley Spencer Commerce Street Artist Warehouse Nan Goldin Jeffrey Deitch Morrissey Dan Steinhilber at the Contemporary Art Museumbr/>Catherin Murohy at Texas Gallery group show: The Music that He Constantly Plays Says Nothing to Me about My Life curator's site

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