Terri and Abigail’s interest in literature and art, and social practice issues, respectively, help round out the content that current bloggers Nicholas O’Brien and Caroline Picard have been providing us for a number of months now. Nicholas is a new media artist and curator specializing in net art – he’s been bringing us fantastic interviews with internet practioners that, in their form, brilliantly reflect the interview’s subject matter itself (check out Nicholas’ interview with “Kool Aid Man” Jon Rafman –conducted inside Second Life — to see what I mean). Within the next few weeks Nicholas will debut a brand new, as-yet-untitled column for Bad at Sports dedicated to analyzing and exploring current issues in net art. It’s gonna rock, people. Caroline Picard, an artist, writer, arts administrator and publisher (best known as the main force behind Green Lantern Press) will now be contributing on a weekly basis each Wednesday starting in March. Caroline’s work is slow blogging at its best  – and lucky for us, she’ll continue to post in-depth, wonderfully nuanced interviews with artists working in and outside of Chicago alongside essays musing on art, culture, and lived experience. And of course, every Thursday Stephanie Burke continues to feature her Top 5 Weekend Picks of the best exhibitions opening in Chicago over the weekend (it’s an especially great resource for checking out what’s happening at smaller apartment galleries and alternative spaces) so you can plan your gallery crawl accordingly.

And oh yes, there is even more: to keep things fresh, we’re also stirring a series of guest bloggers into this mix. Next week, Julia V. Hendrickson, an artist, writer, and the gallery manager at Chicago’s Corbett vs. Dempsey gallery and a teaching assistant at the Marwen Foundation will guest blog, bringing us an interview with Mark Pascale, a curator in the Department of Prints and Drawings at The Art Institute, a peek into the Prints and Drawings study room at the AIC, a talk with John Corbett and Jim Dempsey about the history behind their gallery and a bunch of other fun stuff from her world. Julia is an active member of the Chicago Printers Guild, and has a solo show up right now at Anchor Graphics (Columbia College Chicago) titled FANTASTIC STANZAS, on view through March 26th.  After Julia, we’ll be featuring guest blogs from Chicago curator and arts writer Thea Liberty Nichols and artist Dan Gunn, among others. So, archaic though may be to put it this way…please do stay tuned!

Also, apropros of absolutely fucking nothing, I just came across a picture of this t-shirt, which made me laugh really hard for about five different reasons. Please to enjoy:

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Over the past two months everyone at Bad at Sports has been in a frenzy preparing for the exhibition, “Don’t Piss On Me And Tell Me It’s Raining” at apexart in New York. The show was a bit of a last-minute golden opportunity, so details have been scarce, but we now have the full scoop on what’s in store, and it’s pretty awesome. (You can keep up with Meg, Duncan, Amanda, Tom and Richard throughout the show’s installation and opening events by following Bad at Sports on Twitter and the hashtag #basapex.) The exhibition features over 100 objects, images and ephemera that will serve as a visual complement to Bad at Sports’ considerable audio archives, submitted by Bad at Sports contributors and guests of the show, including:

Carol Becker, Britton Bertran, Temporary Services, Adam Brooks and Mathew Wilson, Ivan Brunetti, Tom Burtonwood, David Coyle, Death by Design, Elizabeth Chodos, Miguel Cortez, Tony Fitzpatrick, Rob Davis and Michael Langlois, Jeremy Deller, Lisa Dorin, Jim Duignan, Dan Devening, Cody Hudson, Jason Dunda, Fendry Ekel, James Elkins, Anthony Elms, Pete Fagundo, Mary Rachel Fanning,Tony Feher, Rochelle Feinstein, Pamela Fraser, Liam Gillick, Helidon Gjergji, Michelle Grabner, Dylan Graham, Madeleine Grynsztejn, Sarah Guernsey, Terence Hannum, Anni Holm, Brian Holmes, Astrid Honold, Christopher Hudgens, Meg Onli, Amanda Browder, Tom Sanford, Duncan MacKenzie, Christian Kuras, Ben Tanner, Scott Hug, Richard Holland, Carol Jackson, Paddy Johnson, David Jones, Alex Jovanovic, Atsushi Kaga, Mark Staff Brandl, Vera Klement, Peter Saul, Gregory Knight, Monique Meloche, Leo Koenig, Chad Kouri, Steve Lacy, Caroline Picard, Jose Lerma, Laura Letinsky, Kerry James Marshall, Ed Marszewski, Eric May, Dominic Molon, Anne Elizabeth Moore, David Morgan, Julian Myers, Gavin Turk, Liz Nofziger, Jamisen Ogg, Neysa Page-Lieberman, Trevor Paglan, Raymond Pettibon, John Phillips, Allison Peters Quinn, Lane Relyea, Lawrence Rinder, David Robbins, Thomas Robertello, Julie Rodriguez Widholm, Elvia Rodriguez, Nathan Rogers-Madsen, James Rondeau, Marlene Russum Scott, Alison Ruttan, Dan S. Wang, Stephanie Smith, Deb Sokolow, Scott Speh, Chris Sperandio, Lisa Stone, Shannon Stratton, Randall Szott, Christine Tarkowski, Tony Tasset, Tracy Marie Taylor, Ron Terada, Philip von Zweck, Hamza Walker, Chris Walla, John Wanzel, Chris Ware, Oli Watt, Tony Wight, Anne Wilson, Jay Wolke, InCubate, Curtis Mann, Michael Velliquette, Clare Britt, Shannon Stratton, Damian Duffy, William Conger, M N Hutchinson, Mark Francis, Annika Marie, the artists of Blunt Art Text, and more.

The exhibition also features three related exhibition talks, all of which are free and open to the public.  They’ll all be rebroadcast on upcoming episodes of Bad at Sports’ podcast, for those of you not able to catch the events in NYC.

Jeffrey Deitch in conversation with Carlo McCormick

Thursday, April 8, 6pm. On the eve of Deitch’s departure from New York, Carlo McCormick will talk to Jeffrey Deitch about his time and legacy as one of the most visible, dynamic and controversial players in the New York art world.

Painters/Painting

Wednesday April 28th, 6pm. Tom Sanford will moderate a panel of five other painters who will talk about painting, including: Kamrooz Aram, Holly Coulis, David Humphrey, Dike Blair and Deborah Kass.

Emily Larned Introduces Ilssa

Tuesday, May 18th, 6pm. Impractical Labor in Service of the Speculative Arts is a membership organization for those who make experimental or conceptual work with obsolete technology.

You can download the exhibition brochure, which features a conversation between co-founders Duncan MacKenzie and Richard Holland about the history of Bad at Sports, here.

Last but not least, the all-important details on the opening reception! This Wednesday night!

Don’t Piss on Me and Tell Me It’s Raining

Organized by Bad at Sports

Opening: Wednesday, April 7th 6-8pm

apexart
291 Church Street
New York, NY 10013

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Wall Street Journal.

Actor James Franco, star of Milk and Spiderman and other movies you’ve probably seen, is playing an artist right now on the soap opera General Hospital (I remember cutting school when I was a tween to come home and watch this show during its Luke n’ Laura heyday). For Franco, the guest-starring role, which is featured over 23 episodes, is a kind of experiment: an attempt to insert performance art into a long-running daytime serial.  Franco writes about the experience, and its relationship to performance art, in the Wall Street Journal this week. Don’t miss this article. It’s fascinating to read the perspective that a Hollywood actor brings to the types of performances that are enacted in other cultural spheres–the art world as well as the highly stylized narratives seen on daytime television.

An excerpt from Franco’s Wall Street Journal article:

“I have been obsessed with performance art for over a decade—ever since the Mexican performance artist Guillermo Gómez-Peña came to visit my class at Cal Arts summer school. I finally took the plunge and experimented with the form myself when I signed on to appear on 20 episodes of “General Hospital” as the bad-boy artist “Franco, just Franco.” I disrupted the audience’s suspension of disbelief, because no matter how far I got into the character, I was going to be perceived as something that doesn’t belong to the incredibly stylized world of soap operas. Everyone watching would see an actor they recognized, a real person in a made-up world. In performance art, the outcome is uncertain—and this was no exception. My hope was for people to ask themselves if soap operas are really that far from entertainment that is considered critically legitimate. Whether they did was out of my hands.”

I love this idea! Note to self: DVR General Hospital and check out Franco’s part. I’m not in a position to judge how effectively Franco’s appearances will work as performance art, because I think only regular viewers of the daytime drama will be able to judge how well it rubs against the rest of the narrative. So, if there are any of you out there who watch General Hospital regularly please email us at mail@badatsports.com and let us know what you thought!

Watch James Franco interview Marina Abramović about performance art in the WSJ video below (and learn more about Abramović’s golden cake piece that I so harshly ragged on a few weeks ago). And thanks for tipping me off to all this, Meg!

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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

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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:
AICA New England Awards
Big Red and Shiny
Greg Cook
Matt Nash
James Nadeau
Christian Holland
James Elkins
MIT
Frank Gehry
Boston Globe
Boston Phoenix
Jenny Holzer
Richard Clarke
Condoleeza Rice
George Tenet
Laurence Weiner
Errol Morris
MASS MoCa
Kate Levant
Jacques Louis Vidal
Russell Lamontagne
Nick Lawrence
Zach Feuer
Sunday Gallery
LFL Gallery
Emily Eisenberg
Samson Projects
Second Gallery
The Portland Museum
Boston Cyberarts Festival
Boston University
Leslie Brown
Steve Hollinger
Erica von Schilgen
Deb Todd Wheeler
Proof Gallery
Axiom
The Mills Gallery
Boston Sculpture Gallery
Kingston Gallery
Jeff Koons
Yoko Ono
Gerhard Richter
ICA Boston
Ed Ruscha
Catherine Lord
Harvard
Philip Lorca DiCorcia
Jeremy Deller
Space Other
Spencer Finch
The Walker
I Hear the Mermaid Singing
Pate Conoway

Direct download: Bad_at_Sports_Episode_133__Boston_AICA.mp3

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Ok, so you have listened to our BS for 127 episodes or so, so this week we introduce an exciting new program for BAS. We will from time to time invite guest curators on to put together an episode of Bad at Sports. This week, Artist, Curator, Musician, Gallerist, Radio Host and recipient of the 2007 Richard H. Driehaus Foundation grant, Philip von Zweck does a show focused on the area from whence he came, New Orleans.

Philip von Zweck grew up in Slidell Louisiana, a suburb of New Orleans that was also devastated by Katrina. In January he made his first trip back since the storm and took along a recorder for Bad at Sports to find out what’s going on in New Orleans Art and what’s up with Prospect.1, the first New Orleans Biennial coming this fall. Along the way he spoke with Chris Deris, a high school friend (BFA, Atlanta College of Art; MFA, RISD) who now teaches Sculpture at Loyola University; New Orleans artist Blake Boyd; Odgen Museum of Southern Art Curator David Houston; and Cynthia Scott, an MFA student at Tulane and one of the organizers of forthcoming artist initiatives responding to Prospect.1.

Prospect.1
Dan Cameron
George Dunbar
Ida Kohlmeyer
Arthur Roger Gallery
Jean Seidenberg
Robert Polidori
Ed McGowin
New Orleans Contemporary Art Center
New Orleans Museum of Art
Sally Mann
Hurricane Katrina
RISD
Loyola University
Philip von Zweck
Cynthia Scott
Taylor Mead/a>
Andres Serrano
Art in America
Matthew Marks
Blake Boyd
The Ogden
Donna Perret
The New Museum
Basquiat
CAC
Contemporary Arts Museum Houston
David Houston
The Morse Museum
Henri Cartier-Bresson
William Faulkner
Elliot Erwitt
The Marching 100
Jerry Garcia
Peter Halley
Ed McGowin
Robert Mapplethorpe
Margaret Evangeline
Global Green
Tulane School of Architecture
Nicolai Ouroussoff
Direct download: Bad_at_Sports_Episode_128-New_Orleans.mp3

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This week’s show has everything.

Brian and Marc with critic, writer, and all around interesting guy Julian Myers on rock and rioting.

Julian Myers is a San Francisco-based writer and art historian. His writings have been featured in publications such Frieze, October, Afterall, and a number of local and national museum and gallery catalogs. In addition, Myers teaches at the Curatorial Practice program at California College of Arts, the San Francisco Art Institute, and the University of California at Santa Cruz.

Terri, Joanna and Danielle Egan Miller talk to Arik Verezhensky proprietor of Gemini Fine Books & Arts, Ltd. A collector and dealer in rare and amazing art and books, and art books, and maybe a few books on art. To top it all off the show wraps up with some obscure Japanese Hip-Hop, Richard’s new favorite genre of music.

Julian Myers
Danielle Egan Miller
Arik Verezhensky
Gemini Fine Books & Arts, Ltd.
Afterall
Frieze
October
Art on Paper
Ellsworth Kelly
Nancy Holt
Michael Heizer
Trisha Donnelly
Edgar Arceneaux
San Francisco Art Institute
UC Santa Cruz
UC Davis
CCA
UC Berkeley
Epicenter Collective
Alicia McCarthy
Barry McGee
Ejekt Festival
British Invasion Festival
Guns N’ Roses
Suicide
Elvis Costello
Christoph Büchel
Collective Foundation
Pablo Picasso
Juan Miró
Salvador Dalí
Marc Chagall
Rose Adler
Willem de Kooning
Jim Dine
Henri Matisse
Direct download: Bad_at_Sports_Episode102-Riot.mp3

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Reports galore!

Duncan talks to the crew from Bridge about the impending Miami madness. Newly knighted European bureau chief Mark Staff Brandl talks lots of shows across the pond. Mike Benedetto talks Kurosawa’s Rahomom. Brian Andrews on Portland.

Wow! That’s a whole lotta show.

Thanks to Mr. Moon for helping out with the intro.

We need an audio intern. E-mail us if you have a clue, and don’t mind somewhat dull technical work. Lots of gory, oh, my friend there is lots of glory. No money.

ALSO: BAS has an APB out for Phil Berkman. If anyone out there knows Phil Berkman we are trying to get ahold of him…

Tom Burtonwood
Vanessa Beecroft
Damien Hirst
Sarah Michelle Gellar
Jason Lee
Judith Trepp
Beat Streuli
Murray Guy Gallery
Matthew Buckingham
Schnitt Punkt Kunst + Kleid
Jeff Hoke/The Museum of Lost Wonder
Affair at the Jupiter Hotel
Gallery 40000
Western Exhibitions
Katharine Mulherin Contemporary Art Projects
Michael Caines
Romo Gallery
Beatrix Reinhardt
Packard Jennings
Nevin Tomlinson
Andrew Schoultz/Trillum Press
Bridge Art Fair
NADA Art Fair
DIVA (Digital and Video Art Fair)
Pulse Contemporary Art Fair
Scope International Art Fairs
Aqua Art Miami
Ink Miami
Frieze Art Fair
Art Chicago 2007
Stray Show
Art Unlimited
The Armory Show
Sharkforum
Art in America
Judith Trepp
Art Forum Ute Barth Galerie
Beat Streuli
Murray Guy Gallery
Matthew Buckingham
Matthew Higgs
Tate Modern
Lufthansa CEO’s Office
Davyd Johnson
The Art Book London
Hamza Walker
Art Museum St.Gallen
Textile Museum S. Gallen
die Neue Kunst Halle St.Gallen
Heide
Elvis
Switzerland
France
Germany
Austria
Italy
Canada
Jeff Hoke
The Museum of Lost Wonder
Mark Staff Brandl
Direct download: Bad_at_Sports_Episode_64__Europe_Portland_Miami.mp3

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