Bad at Sports

Duncan MacKenzie, Brian Andrews

Booking Overview

This is a weekly contemporary-art interview podcast featuring artists, curators, critics, dealers, arts educators, and other cultural professionals. Agencies can credibly pitch established or emerging art-world practitioners with substantial exhibitions, institutional leadership, curatorial projects, research, or arts-organization experience; booking difficulty is medium because the show regularly features credible niche experts but is not limited to globally famous figures.

Metrics

Episodes: 996

Frequency: Weekly

Rating: 4.5/5.0

Estimated listeners: 1k-10k

Gender skew: Neutral

Location: USA

Instagram: 4.8k followers

Contact Information

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Host

Duncan MacKenzie - Contemporary-art interviewer and co-host of Bad at Sports, engaging artists, curators, critics, and other arts professionals in discussions of their practices and the broader art world.

Brian Andrews - Contemporary-art interviewer and co-host of Bad at Sports, contributing conversations with artists, curators, and cultural professionals.

Booking Intelligence

Booking Requirements

medium

Typical Credentials:

Established or emerging artists, curators, critics, arts educators, researchers, dealers, and cultural-organization leaders with a substantial body of work, institutional affiliation, exhibition history, distinctive research, or a meaningful contribution to contemporary-art discourse.

Required Achievements:

Significant exhibitions or public art projects, Leadership or founding roles at arts organizations, Curatorial projects and exhibition development, Published research, criticism, or arts writing, Academic or institutional affiliations, Distinctive long-term artistic practices

Recent Guest Discussions

Kristin Mariani - Text-based Art, Leopold Benches: A P(o)or(t)ch Theater, Performance, Collaboration, And Collective Play.

Judd Morrissey - The Poor Farm Experiment, Leopold Benches: A P(o)or(t)ch Theater, Collaborative Art-making, Performance, And Residency Practices.

Mark Jeffery - The Poor Farm Experiment, Leopold Benches: A P(o)or(t)ch Theater, Collaboration, Queer Sitting, Residency Practices, And Performance.

Chanelle Lacy - Audience Development, Cultural Partnerships, Membership Programming, Collecting, Arts Access, And Chicago’s Cultural Ecosystem.

Abby Pucker - Building Cultural Infrastructure, Audience Development, Collecting, Chicago Exhibition Week, Arts Entrepreneurship, And The For-profit Versus Nonprofit Cultural Model.

Recent Topics

Art, Contemporary Art, Visual Artists, Curatorial Practice, Art Criticism

Episodes

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Bad at Sports

Bad at Sports Episode 972: Jeanette Andrews

September 29, 2026

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. Nearly twenty years later, that ambition has become an exhibition. The conversation travels from Victorian parlor magic and vaudeville to the psychology of surprise, Alan Turing, and Andrews's Taken by Artificial Surprise, which asks audiences to distinguish between human-created magic and illusions developed...

Bad at Sports Episode 971: Jean Alexander Frater, Matthew Girson & Dana DeGiulio at Material

September 25, 2026

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 Girson, and Dana DeGiulio about a two-person exhibition at Material, Jean's artist-run project space in Chicago's Roscoe Village. Four paintings by Matthew and four by Dana are installed in an alternating sequence, setting up a conversation across the walls rather than dividing the gallery by artist. Their discussion...

Bad at Sports Episode: 970 - A P(o)or(t)ch Theater with Mark Jeffery, Judd Morrissey and Kristin Mariani

September 22, 2026

At Spudnik Press in Chicago, Duncan MacKenzie, Brian Andrews and Ryan Peter Miller welcome Mark Jeffery, Judd Morrissey and Kristin Mariani to discuss the Poor Farm Experiment's Leopold Benches: A P(o)or(t)ch Theater (MIDWEST REDUX). Developed through the U.S. Pavilion's PORCH program at the 2025 Venice Architecture Biennale and presented in Chicago at the MCA's Chicago Performs festival, the work turns a porch into a place of observation, invitation, performance and collective play. The conv...

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