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This week the West Coast Crew heads down to Ratio3 to talk to Ryan McGinley and gallerist Chris Perez.

Ryan McGinley makes large-scale color photographs of nudes in abstracted natural landscapes. With his subjects as willing collaborators, he used photography to break down barriers between public and private lives. Drawn from skateboarding, music, graffiti and gay subcultures, his models perform for the camera and expose themselves with complete self-awareness. McGinley's more recent work signals a departure from the urban youth culture images for which he is well known – over the past few summers he has been working almost exclusively in natural settings in the American west. At 24, he was the youngest artist to have a solo show at the Whitney Museum of American Art. He has also had solo exhibitions at PS1 and in Spain at the MUSAC in Leon. In 2007 he was awarded the Young Photographer Infinity award by the International Center for Photography.

Direct download: Bad_at_Sports_Episode_141-Ryan_McGinley.mp3
Category: podcasts -- posted at: 8:06 PM

THIS WEEK IT'S THE AMANDA BROWDER SHOW!!! GUEST STARRING TONY MATELLI!!!


Tony Matelli has always been interested in the underdog. He has become well known for his hyper-realistic sculptures often depicting characters and things just barely getting by; things nearly dead, hopelessly lost or otherwise totally unwanted. These sculptures serve as metaphors for our own social malaise and our general struggle for survival. They mimic inner states of desolation, panic, ambivalence and despair; frequent conditions associated with trying to locate ones self within our social world.

Tony Matelli has exhibited extensively in the US and in Europe. His work was most recently seen in “5 Billion Years,” at the Palais de Tokyo, Paris, and Into Me/Out of Me, at P.S. 1 MOMA New York, travelling to KW Berlin Institute of Contemporary Art. Upcoming projects include Evolution: Tony Matelli/Alexis Rockman, Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, Still Life, at the Dunedin Public Art Gallery, Dunedin, New Zealand, and Die Macht der Dinge - The Power of Things, Georg Kolbe Museum, Berlin.

Also Duncan tries out his acting chops, with mixed results.

Direct download: Bad_at_Sports_Episode_140-Tony_Matelli.mp3
Category: podcasts -- posted at: 9:09 AM

In 1994 Paul Morris, Matthew Marks, Pat Hearn and Colin De Land had a vision.  That vision was that New York City would have an art fair. What began as the Gramercy International Contemporary Art Fair has become the the Armory fair, the jewel in the art fair empire the Merchandise Mart has amassed over the last 3 years; Art Chicago, The Armory, Art Toronto, Volta Basel, Next, and Volta NYC.

This week, Paul "the 'marts Art Czar" Morris and Tony "Boss of Art Chicago" Karman break down why the Art Fair future is the future. Kathryn Born and Duncan MacKenzie listen with slack jaws and open minds.

The weird thing that happened is that Duncan actually started to get behind Art Chicago and the 'marts future in the Art Business?  WTF?  Did he drink the Kool Aid? Was he bought off? Or is there reason to believe? Listen and find out...
Direct download: Bad_at_Sports_Episode_139-Artropolis.mp3
Category: podcasts -- posted at: 11:47 PM

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.

 

Direct download: Bad_at_Sports_Episode_138-Next.mp3
Category: podcasts -- posted at: 12:22 PM

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.




Direct download: Bad_at_Sports_Episode_137-NYC_Art_fair_madness.mp3
Category: podcasts -- posted at: 6:56 PM

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...
Direct download: 136ampersand.mp3
Category: podcasts -- posted at: 3:38 PM

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.
Direct download: Bad_at_Sports_Episode_135-Melanie_Schiff.mp3
Category: podcasts -- posted at: 12:53 AM

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?
Direct download: Bad_at_Sports_Episode_134-_Wight-Phillips.mp3
Category: podcasts -- posted at: 2:02 AM

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
Direct download: Bad_at_Sports_Episode_133__Boston_AICA.mp3
Category: podcasts -- posted at: 10:06 PM
Comments[2]

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.
Direct download: 132BadatsportsReviews.mp3
Category: podcasts -- posted at: 2:03 PM