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/

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. 

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/

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/

Image:

Alex Chitty

They will bloom without you

Elmhurst Art Museum -McCormick House

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/

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 bow.org/">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 

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.

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.

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

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.