Episode 167:Art Fag City is Paddy Johnson
Download audio file (Bad_at_Sports_Episode_167-Art_Fag_City.mp3) download This week the blogosphere unites! Duncan checks in with Paddy Johnson the author of the wildly popular New York art blog, Art...
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Jessica Slaven’s untitled exhibition via Art Fag City Last night as I was readying myself to listen to this weeks podcast (I heart Paddy Johnson) I was trolling Art Fag City to see what I might have...
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Check out Ben Street’s thoughtful and timely essay on curatorial practice of the institutional kind posted today on the Art 21 blog. Best line: “…(G)reat curatorship hides itself, or, put another way,...
View ArticleBad at Sports Giveaway #2
So here is how it’s going to go. I have a brand new copy of former BAS guest Trevor Paglen’s book Blank Spots on the Map: The Dark Geography of the Pentagon’s Secret World. Duncan has been M.I.A....
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Are re-blogged links the blogger’s version of the sitcom flashback episode? Uh, maybe, but in any case, here’s a partial and purely subjective roundup of the past week in art, culture, etc. in Chicago...
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Wallpaper* Magazine's colection of Tart Cards Hope everyone has had a great week. On this weeks roundup we check out Murakami’s latest video for Louis Vuitton, a new article on Marina Abramović, and...
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David Hammons, U.N.I.A., 2000. On this weekly roundup we check out Robogeisha, a surprisingly versatile robot, half a Century of Nuclear Explosions, and Brooklyn is burning. Actually this sounds like a...
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2008 photo of the Sepulveda Pass Fire; View Through the Sepulveda Pass (Mike Meadows/Associated Press) The Getty Museum on Fire? Not so far, according to the latest L.A. Times report. Thankfully the...
View ArticleForget the Olympics. What the Second City Really Needs is First-Class Art News
Last week was, by many accounts, a humiliating one for Chicago, ending as it did with the announcement that the Second City had been knocked out of contention for the much-coveted 2016 Olympics–in the...
View ArticleFriday’s Twitter Roundup | 10.16.09
Kilian Rüthemann & Niklaus Wenger On this week’s roundup I looked at some work by Kilian Rüthemann & Niklaus Wenger, watched a fist fight between two women on a bus, and read about Ken Isaacs’...
View ArticleRepost: 6 Must-See Discussions at EXPO Chicago courtesty of Art Fag City
6 Must-See Discussions at Expo Chicago by PADDY JOHNSON on SEPTEMBER 13, 2013 Joel Sternfeld | McLean, Virginia, December 1978 | 1978. via participating gallery Luhring Augustine Expo Chicago launches...
View ArticleCompiling Reports: EXPO Chicago 2013
In case you thought we maybe glossed over the epic amount of blood sweat and tears that went into last week’s art fair extravaganza, I thought I’d repost a few articles that came out in the last few...
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View ArticleEpisode 430: EXPO panel Josh Baer, Paddy, and Forrest Nash
Download audio file (Bad_at_Sports_Episode_430__EXPO_Panel_Internet.mp3) download This week! EXPO Panel! “Who owns the internet?” Josh Baer - Baer Fax Forrest Nash - Contemporary Art Daily Paddy...
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David Hammons, U.N.I.A., 2000. On this weekly roundup we check out Robogeisha, a surprisingly versatile robot, half a Century of Nuclear Explosions, and Brooklyn is burning. Actually this sounds like a...
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