Bad at Sports
Bad at SportsBad At Sports is a weekly podcast about contemporary art. Founded in 2005, the series focuses on presenting the practices of artists, curators, critics, dealers, various other arts professionals through an online audio format.
| Publishes | Twice weekly | Episodes | 981 | Founded | 21 years ago |
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| Number of Listeners | Categories | Visual ArtsArts | |||
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Recorded live at Door County Contemporary, Duncan MacKenzie and Ryan Peter Miller finally correct a seventeen-year oversight and sit down with Chicago gallerist Andrew Rafacz. From the Bucket Rider days in Pilsen to twenty-five years of building a ga... more
This week on Bad at Sports, Duncan MacKenzie and Ryan Peter Miller sit down with Milwaukee-based artist, curator, musician, and all-around multi-hyphenate Phoenix Brown. The conversation begins with Phoenix's drawings in the Portrait Society exhibiti... more
This week on Bad at Sports, Brian Andrews, Ryan Peter Miller, and Duncan MacKenzie sit down with Chicago artist Mindy Rose Schwartz to discuss Countersealed, her recent exhibition at M. LeBlanc Gallery.
The conversation explores a deeply immersive ... more
This week on Bad at Sports, Brian Andrews and Ryan Peter Miller sit down with Chicago artist Heather Mekkelson to discuss her recent paired exhibitions, Bass Note at 65GRAND and Snare at Boundary.
Across two installations separated by nearly sixtee... more
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- Show has potential. Host underprepared.
Interesting, smart and eloquent guests. The podcast has a lot of potential but the hosts are underprepared. They will not introduce the guests properly and don’t appear to do basic research about their guests (who they are, where they are showing, when, etc.) They are disrupting interesting conversations with unnecessary comments (ie. go on tinder and find a date to go see this exhibition with/ this is a good show to hook up in), which show lack of preparedness. Dana will ask an open ended quest... more
Apple Podcasts3canesuga
United States7 years ago - Essential For Art World Folk!
Bad at Sports is ambitious in the range of art world folk they dialogue with and thus there are some highs and lows. However, the highs are worth any amount of getting lost in art speak (note: if you are not familiar with the art world this may be a difficult place to start, but you can still certainly learn a lot if you stick with it), or the ramblings that do eventually lead to wonderful insights. Only a 4 out of 5 for the inaccessibility for some. However, as an MA student in CHI this is ESSE... more
Apple Podcasts4RealArtNerdUnited States9 years ago - Best Art Interviews
This is one of THE greatest contemporary art podcasts. Great, hour-long interviews with a wide variety of important artworld guests, conducted by personable, amusing hosts like Duncan McKenzie, Richard Holland and Amanda Browder.
Apple Podcasts5Mark S B
Switzerland10 years ago - Best podcast on the subject of art.
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Apple Podcasts5LarrylarrylaryUnited States12 years ago - Very good art podcast
Wonderful, from an artist's perspective. Continue your art history education. An essential part of my art week.
Apple Podcasts5Alexander LaurentiusUnited States13 years ago
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Apple Podcasts | #158 | United States/Arts/Visual Arts |
Apple Podcasts | #118 |  Canada/Arts/Visual Arts |
Apple Podcasts | #217 |  United Kingdom/Arts/Visual Arts |
Apple Podcasts | #99 |  Italy/Arts/Visual Arts |
Apple Podcasts | #101 |  Australia/Arts/Visual Arts |
Apple Podcasts | #170 |  Germany/Arts/Visual Arts |
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Long-running conversations in contemporary art with a rotating cast of hosts and frequent artist guests. Episodes blend in-depth interviews, behind-the-scenes insights from studios, galleries, and fairs, and candid discussions about funding, institutions, and the art world's infrastructures. Notable threads across episodes include practical studio processes, materiality and identity, the politics of care, and the economics of sustaining art practice outside traditional nonprofit or gallery models. The show often balances rigor with humor, creating approachable, opinionated discussions that appeal to artists, curators, critics, and art-world professionals curious about how ideas translate into practice and sustainability.
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How many episodes of Bad at Sports are there?
Bad at Sports launched 21 years ago and published 981 episodes to date. You can find more information about this podcast including rankings, audience demographics and engagement in our podcast database.
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Recent guests on Bad at Sports include:
1. Mindy Rose Schwartz
2. Duncan MacKenzie
3. Heather Mekkelson
4. George Scheer
5. Tali Halpern
6. William Powhida
7. Justin H. Long
8. Hilde Lynn Helphenstein
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