Bad at Sports

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   Episode 978: Delano Dunn

   [audio src="https://traffic.libsyn.com/badatsports/Bad_at_Sports_Episode_978_Delano_Dunn_mixdown.mp3"] download This week on Bad at Sports, Duncan MacKenzie and Brian Andrews visit the studio of artist Delano Dunn, whose dazzling collages combine the visual excess of the 1980s and '90s with the...

   Oct 30, 2026
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   Episode 977: E. Saffronia Downing

   [audio src="https://traffic.libsyn.com/badatsports/Bad_at_Sports_Episode_977_Saffronia_Downing.mp3"] download What can a handful of dirt tell you about where you live? At ACRE Projects in Chicago, the Bad at Sports crew joins ceramic artist E. Saffronia Downing amid her exhibition Pressed Flower…

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   Oct 21, 2026
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   Episode 976: Tony Lewis and Bosco Bae

   [audio src="https://traffic.libsyn.com/badatsports/badatsportsepisode976TONYBOSCO.mp3"] download Duncan MacKenzie and Jesse Malmed sit down with artist Tony Lewis and Bosco Bae, brother of the late Chicago artist Gregory Bae (1986–2021), for a moving, funny, and candid conversation recorded live…

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   Oct 13, 2026
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   Episode 975: Paul Nudd

   [audio src="https://traffic.libsyn.com/badatsports/badasportsepisode975PAULNUDD.mp3"] download Brian Andrews, Duncan MacKenzie, and Ryan Peter Miller sit down with Chicago-area artist Paul Nudd at Spudnik Press, surrounded by the work of the 1st International Milwaukee Riso Invitational.

   Oct 9, 2026
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   Episode 974: Mari Eastman

   [audio src="https://traffic.libsyn.com/badatsports/badatsportsepisode974MARIEASTMAN.mp3"] download What makes a painting worth saving? What happens when the image in your head refuses to become the image on your panel? And why does everybody want another fox?

   Oct 5, 2026
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   Episode 973: Manuel Mathieu

   [audio src="https://traffic.libsyn.com/badatsports/badatsportsepisode973MANUELMATHEIU.mp3"] download What do you do when your hope for the future starts to feel fragile? And what can a painting, an act of remembrance, or a bottle of perfume do about it? Duncan MacKenzie sits down with…

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   Oct 5, 2026
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   Episode 972: Jeanette Andrews

   [audio src="https://traffic.libsyn.com/badatsports/Bad_at_Sports_Episode_972_Jeanette_Andrews.mp3"] download Artist and magician Jeanette Andrews joins Duncan and Jesse at the Elmhurst Art Museum, the very place where, as a teenager, she began imagining how magic could become contemporary art....

   Sep 28, 2026
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   Episode 971: Jean Alexander Frater, Matthew Girson & Dana DeGiulio at Material

   [audio src="https://traffic.libsyn.com/badatsports/Bad_at_Sports_Episode_971_Dana_Matthew_and_Jean.mp3"] download What can eight small paintings tell us about the possibilities of an artist-run space? Duncan MacKenzie, joined midway by Jesse Malmed, speaks with Jean Alexander Frater, Matthew...

   Sep 25, 2026
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   Episode 952: Tali Halpern

   [audio src="https://traffic.libsyn.com/badatsports/badatsportsepisode951TALIHALPRIN.mp3"] download Bad at Sports Episode 951 has Duncan MacKenzie and Ryan Peter Miller still in Miami for a conversation with Chicago artist Tali Halpern at NADA, representing 1210 Gallery. The conversation spans...

   Jun 15, 2026
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    Episode 951: William Powhida

    [audio src="https://traffic.libsyn.com/badatsports/badatsportsepisode950WILLIAMPOWHIDA.mp3"] download At NADA Miami, Duncan MacKenzie, Ryan Peter Miller, Tom Sandford and returning guest William Powhida dig into the art world’s annual power rituals, the shifting geography of cultural influence,...

    Jun 15, 2026
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    Episode 950: Justin H Long

    [audio src="https://traffic.libsyn.com/badatsports/badatspoertseipsode949JUSTINHLONG.mp3"] download Live from the fair circuit heat (not Miami… but spiritually always Miami), Duncan MacKenzie, Ryan Peter Miller, and Tom Sanford catch up with artist Justin H. Long, self-described “original Florida...

    Jun 15, 2026
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    Episode 949: Hilde Lynn Helphenstein

    [audio src="https://traffic.libsyn.com/badatsports/Bad_at_Sports_episode_949HildeRIP.mp3"] download I don't quite know how to start this. It feels important to repost this interview because of Hilde. Hilde Lynn Helpenstein was a kickass human. "Jerry Gogosian" was a lance aimed directly at our...

    Jun 8, 2026
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    Episode 948: Esther Park

    [audio src="https://traffic.libsyn.com/badatsports/badatsportsepisode948ESTHERPARK_mixdown.mp3"] download In this episode of Bad at Sports, recorded at the tail end of a sun-soaked, sweat-drenched, and somehow still magical Miami Art Week, Duncan MacKenzie and Ryan Peter Miller sit down with...

    Jun 4, 2026
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    Episode 947: Heather Hubbs

    [audio src="https://traffic.libsyn.com/badatsports/badatsportsepisode947HEATHERHUBBS.mp3"] download Recorded live in the blazing Miami heat (seriously, surface-of-the-sun conditions), Duncan, Ryan, and crew sit down with Heather Hubbs, Executive Director of the New Art Dealers Alliance (NADA)…

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    Jun 1, 2026
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    Episode 946: Chris Succo

    [audio src="https://traffic.libsyn.com/badatsports/badatsportsepisode946CHRISSUCCO.mp3"] download Chris Succo joins Duncan MacKenzie, Ryan Peter Miller, and Tom Sanford in Miami for a conversation that slides easily from pronunciation jokes into a deep dive on abstraction, immediacy, and the…

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    May 28, 2026
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    Episode 939: Sarah Higgins

    [audio src="https://traffic.libsyn.com/badatsports/badatsportsepisode939SARAHHIGGINSfin.mp3"] download Art Papers, Fire Ecology, and Ending Well. This week on Bad at Sports, we sit down in Atlanta with Sarah Higgins, Executive and Artistic Director of Art Papers, during the Art Papers symposium....

    Apr 20, 2026
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    Episode 938: Tori Tinsley

    [audio src="https://traffic.libsyn.com/badatsports/badatsportsepisode938TORITINSLEYfin.mp3"] download Recorded live at the Art Papers Symposium in Atlanta, this episode features a deeply personal and wide-ranging conversation with Tori Tinsley. Joined by Brian Andrews and Duncan MacKenzie…

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    Apr 18, 2026
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    Episode 937: Nato Thompson

    [audio src="https://traffic.libsyn.com/badatsports/badatsportsepisode937NATOTHOMPSONfin.mp3"] download This week on Bad at Sports, Duncan MacKenzie, Brian Andrews, and Abigail Satinsky sit down with Nato Thompson for a conversation that spans collapsing institutions, alternative economies, and…

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    Apr 13, 2026
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    Episode 936: Damon Locks

    [audio src="https://traffic.libsyn.com/badatsports/badatsportsepisodeDAMONLOCKS936.mp3"] download Locks’ exhibition operates as a split composition: the back gallery leans into layered, exploratory collage rooted in his teaching experience with Prison + Neighborhood Arts/Education Project at...

    Apr 12, 2026