Bad at Sports

Duncan MacKenzie, Brian Andrews

Booking Overview

A weekly contemporary-art interview show featuring conversations with artists, curators, arts administrators, educators, and other arts professionals, often exploring creative practice, exhibition-making, and the cultural context of the work. Credible pitches include contemporary artists with an established practice, curators and arts leaders with distinctive exhibition or organizational perspectives, and educators or critics with specialized expertise; booking difficulty is medium because the show is niche and guest-focused but regularly features emerging and mid-career practitioners.

Metrics

Episodes: 990

Frequency: Weekly

Rating: 4.5/5.0

Estimated listeners: 1k-10k

Gender skew: Neutral

Location: USA

Instagram: 4.6k followers

Contact Information

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Host

Duncan MacKenzie - Contemporary-art interviewer and co-host of Bad at Sports, engaging artists and arts professionals in discussions of creative practice, exhibitions, and the broader art world.

Brian Andrews - Contemporary-art interviewer and co-host of Bad at Sports, contributing conversations with artists, curators, and other arts professionals about their practices and the contemporary art landscape.

Booking Intelligence

Booking Requirements

medium

Typical Credentials:

Contemporary artists, curators, arts administrators, educators, and critics with a distinctive creative or professional practice, meaningful exhibition or institutional affiliations, or a compelling perspective on contemporary art.

Required Achievements:

Established body of contemporary artwork or curatorial projects, Gallery, museum, university, or arts-organization affiliations, Participation in exhibitions, art fairs, artist-run initiatives, or educational programs, Distinctive perspectives on artistic practice, materials, culture, or the art ecosystem

Recent Guest Discussions

Claire Ashley - Inflatable Sculpture, Experimentation, Protest Aesthetics, Humor, Vulnerability, Color, And The Economics Of Artistic Survival.

Jaymee Harvey Willms - Contemporary Art, Grief, Religious Deconstruction, Broken Objects, Sculpture, Artistic Rituals, And Creative Responses To Loss.

Jenal Dolson - Textured Painting, Installation, Touch, Memory, Sensory Experience, Collaboration, And Making Work For Gallery Spaces.

Tyson Reeder - Painting, Artist-run Culture, Curating, Arts Education, Collaboration, Humor, Regional Artistic Identity, And Materiality.

Sophia Chai - Analog Photography, Camera Obscura, Installation, Perspective, Immigration, Korean Language, Colonialism, And Photography As Witnessing.

Recent Topics

Contemporary Art, Sculpture, Painting, Photography, Curating

Episodes

Here's the recent few episodes on

Bad at Sports

Bad at Sports Episode 966: Claire Ashley

August 17, 2026

Duncan MacKenzie and Brian Andrews sit down with artist Claire Ashley at the Door County Contemporary Art Fair for a conversation that wanders from broken-down minivans to Scottish standing stones, from inflatable sculpture to protest aesthetics, and from the economics of artistic survival to the philosophy of color. Ashley discusses nearly two decades of building monumental inflatable sculptures that refuse to stay still—works that exist somewhere between architecture, bodies, creatures, per...

Bad at Sports Episode 965: Jaymee Harvey Willms

August 13, 2026

Duncan MacKenzie and Brian Andrews sit down with artist, curator, arts administrator, and Door County Contemporary co-founder Jaymee Harvey Willms for an unexpectedly personal and funny conversation. What begins as a discussion about goats unfolds into an exploration of grief, religious deconstruction, contemporary art, and the rituals we create to survive profound loss. Once a painter immersed in saturated color, Jaymee found herself unable to tolerate color at all, turning instead toward br...

Bad at Sports Episode 964: Jenal Dolson

August 10, 2026

Duncan MacKenzie, Ryan Peter Miller, and Brian Andrews are joined by painter Jenal Dolson for a conversation recorded live from the Door County Contemporary Art Fair in Wisconsin. Dolson discusses her vividly textured paintings, her installation practice, and the role of touch, memory, and sensory experience in shaping the visual language of her work. The conversation ranges from tactile abstraction and flocked wallpaper to popcorn ceilings, raccoon vision, painting directly onto gallery wall...

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