Tag Archives: Chicago
Center Field: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports.
Centerfield | Fielding Practice Podcast Episode #10
Center Field: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports.
Centerfield | Fielding Practice Podcast Episode #10
On this episode of Bad at Sports’ Fielding Practice for Centerfield, we have a special podcast on the subject of Ox-Bow, a residency program and artists retreat that is famed …
Inspired Reading
Inspired Reading | Alena Williams on Nancy Holt
Inspired Reading
Inspired Reading | Alena Williams on Nancy Holt
Nancy Holt, perhaps best known for her Sun Tunnels installed the Utah desert, is currently the subject of a traveling exhibition, Nancy Holt: Sightlines, curated by Alena Williams. The exhibition originated at …
Center Field: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports.
Centerfield: Art in the Middle With Bad at Sports | An Interview with Thomas Comerford
Center Field: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports.
Centerfield: Art in the Middle With Bad at Sports | An Interview with Thomas Comerford
Thomas Comerford is an experimental filmmaker from Chicago with a background in performance and sculpture. His current work considers ideas of place, and the relationship of history to our physical …
Center Field: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports.
Centerfield: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports | Fielding Practice Podcast Episode #9
Center Field: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports.
Centerfield: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports | Fielding Practice Podcast Episode #9
On this month’s edition of our Fielding Practice podcast, Duncan MacKenzie, Dan Gunn and Art21 Blog Editor Claudine Isé discuss the upcoming New Art Dealer’s Alliance (NADA) Art Fair in …
Inspired Reading
Inspired Reading | Anne-Mie van Kerckhoven
Inspired Reading
Inspired Reading | Anne-Mie van Kerckhoven
Anne-Mie van Kerckhoven is an artist based in Antwerp, Belgium. Her work is currently being featured in a solo exhibition, In a Saturnian World, at the Renaissance Society (on view …
Center Field: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports.
Centerfield: Art in the Middle With Bad at Sports | Fielding Practice Podcast Episode #8
Center Field: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports.
Centerfield: Art in the Middle With Bad at Sports | Fielding Practice Podcast Episode #8
We are back with our next podcast featuring the latest in art news and reviews from Chicago and the Midwest! This month, Duncan Mackenzie, Dan Gunn, and Art21 Blog Editor …
Gimme Shelter: Performance Now
Gimme Shelter | Full Frontal
Gimme Shelter: Performance Now
Gimme Shelter | Full Frontal
I am on my way to New York, but not before finding Exercises for Rebel Artists: Radical Performance Pedagogy by Guillermo Gómez-Peña and Roberto Sifuentes delivered to my door on my last …
Center Field: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports.
Centerfield: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports | Fielding Practice Podcast Episode #7
Center Field: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports.
Centerfield: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports | Fielding Practice Podcast Episode #7
After a brief hiatus last month, we’re back with Episode 7 of “Fielding Practice” for Centerfield: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports. This month, our roundtable gabfest includes …
Center Field: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports.
Center Field | Skokie Northshore Sculpture Park
Center Field: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports.
Center Field | Skokie Northshore Sculpture Park
Living in a fabulous art city like Chicago, it’s easy to become urban-centric when it comes to contemporary art. But there’s a place just on the border of Chicago that …
Center Field: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports.
Center Field | Embodying Echoes: An Interview with Matthew Goulish
Center Field: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports.
Center Field | Embodying Echoes: An Interview with Matthew Goulish
“WE MAY AGREE on the premise that each work of art is at least in part perfect, while each critic is at least in part imperfect. We may then look …
Center Field: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports.
Center Field | Fielding Practice Podcast #6: MCA Shifts Gears; Ikea Hacking as Art; and Ai Wei Wei
Center Field: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports.
Center Field | Fielding Practice Podcast #6: MCA Shifts Gears; Ikea Hacking as Art; and Ai Wei Wei
This month’s episode of Fielding Practice, a special podcast produced by Bad at Sports exclusively for the Art21 blog, is action-packed and filled with discussion of the latest art happenings …
Center Field: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports.
Center Field: Talking with File Type curators Chaz Evans and Lorelei Stewart
Center Field: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports.
Center Field: Talking with File Type curators Chaz Evans and Lorelei Stewart
When I initially saw the promotional poster for File Type, currently on view at University of Illinois at Chicago’s Gallery 400, I was immediately intrigued by the curatorial premise posed …
Center Field: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports.
Center Field | Fielding Practice Episode 5: Open Engagement, William J. O’Brien at The Ren
Center Field: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports.
Center Field | Fielding Practice Episode 5: Open Engagement, William J. O’Brien at The Ren
On this month’s episode of Fielding Practice, Bad at Sports’ co-founder Richard Holland joins Duncan MacKenzie, Dan Gunn and Ime for our regular roundtable discussion about art, culture, and related …
Center Field: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports.
Center Field | Threading Infrastructure: An Interview with Anne Wilson
Center Field: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports.
Center Field | Threading Infrastructure: An Interview with Anne Wilson
When I asked Anne Wilson if I could interview her for Art21, she sent me a preview copy of her book, Anne Wilson: Wind/Rewind/Weave—a catalogue published collaboratively by White Walls and …
Center Field: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports.
Center Field | Fielding Practice Episode 4: Chicago Art Fairs and Early Modernism Redux
Center Field: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports.
Center Field | Fielding Practice Episode 4: Chicago Art Fairs and Early Modernism Redux
It’s time once again for Fielding Practice with Bad at Sports, a special podcast produced for the Art21 blog. On this month’s episode, Duncan MacKenzie, Dan Gunn, and I are …
Center Field: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports.
Center Field | Visons for Chicago: Public Art with Organizer Daniel Tucker
Center Field: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports.
Center Field | Visons for Chicago: Public Art with Organizer Daniel Tucker
I’ve known Daniel Tucker for about five years now and I’ve always thought of him as a true Chicago artist, somewhere in between artist, organizer, writer, and administrator and always …
No Preservatives: Conversations about Conservation
Exploring the Freedom to Re-Present Value: A Discussion with Theaster Gates
No Preservatives: Conversations about Conservation
Exploring the Freedom to Re-Present Value: A Discussion with Theaster Gates
IMA art conservator Richard McCoy talks with artist Theaster Gates about Thornton Dial in relations to Gate’s art practice in
5 Questions for Contemporary Practice
5 Questions (for Contemporary Practice) with Tania Bruguera
5 Questions for Contemporary Practice
5 Questions (for Contemporary Practice) with Tania Bruguera
Tania Bruguera’s long and various career as an artist starts with a series of works made after, but mainly through, the Cuban-born artist Ana Mendieta. I say “through,” because in …
Center Field: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports.
Center Field | Fielding Practice: Episode 3
Center Field: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports.
Center Field | Fielding Practice: Episode 3
We’re back with the latest edition of “Fielding Practice,” a podcast produced by Bad at Sports for Art21 readers and listeners. Before giving you the rundown on this month’s chatfest, …
Open Enrollment
Open Enrollment | BFA and MFA Shows: The New Collector’s Market?
Open Enrollment
Open Enrollment | BFA and MFA Shows: The New Collector’s Market?
Last Friday, I got off the subway and felt the crisp, eight o’clock Chicago evening air and saw something I was not expecting: a line around The School of the …
Center Field: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports.
Center Field | Protest Songs and Lullabies: Susan Philipsz in Chicago
Center Field: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports.
Center Field | Protest Songs and Lullabies: Susan Philipsz in Chicago
What does it mean to sing a protest song as if it were a lullaby? It’s a question I often ask myself. My five-year-old daughter has trouble falling asleep at …
Open Enrollment
Open Enrollment | On Hierarchies: Thoughts after Sarah Thornton
Open Enrollment
Open Enrollment | On Hierarchies: Thoughts after Sarah Thornton
Sarah Thornton, the author of Seven Days in the Art World — a book that made me book laugh, giggle, and weep — spoke last night at the Museum of …
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