Bad at Sports

Duncan MacKenzie, Ryan Peter Miller

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Booking Overview

A weekly contemporary-art interview show featuring artists, curators, gallerists, educators, critics, and other arts professionals in extended conversations about artistic practice and the contemporary art ecosystem. Agencies could credibly pitch working artists, gallery leaders, curators, art educators, critics, and arts-infrastructure specialists with distinctive regional or institutional perspectives; booking difficulty is medium because the show is established but typically focuses on specialized arts-world professionals rather than mainstream celebrities.

Metrics

Episodes: 988

Frequency: Weekly

Rating: 4.5/5.0

Estimated listeners: 1k-10k

Gender skew: Unknown

Location: USA

Instagram: 4.6k followers

Contact Information

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Host

Duncan MacKenzie - Co-host and interviewer of a long-running weekly podcast focused on contemporary art and the professionals who shape its ecosystem.

Ryan Peter Miller - Co-host and interviewer of a long-running weekly podcast focused on contemporary art and the professionals who shape its ecosystem.

Booking Intelligence

Booking Requirements

medium
Typical Credentials:  
Professional experience as a contemporary artist, curator, gallerist, critic, educator, or arts-infrastructure leader, with a substantive practice, regional or institutional expertise, and a distinctive perspective on the art world.
Required Achievements:  
Established artistic or curatorial practice, Gallery leadership or artist representation, Teaching or educational experience, Exhibitions, arts programming, or regional cultural institution involvement

Recent Guest Discussions

Shane McAdams - Contemporary Art’s Public Reach, Midwest Artist-run Infrastructure, Cultural Ecosystems, Galleries, Nonprofits, Academia, Collectors, And Regional Audiences.

Rafael Salas - Magical Realism, Rural Wisconsin, County Fairs, Landscape Painting, Mixed-race Identity, And Making Contemporary Art Outside Major Art Centers.

Andrew Rafacz - Chicago’s Contemporary-art Scene, Gallery Representation, Art Fairs, Artist Support, Social Media Attention, And The Realities Of Sustaining A Gallery Practice.

Recent Topics

Contemporary Art, Art, Curating, Galleries, Art Criticism

Episodes

Here's the recent few episodes on
Bad at Sports
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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...

Bad at Sports Episode 963: Tyson Reeder

August 06, 2026

Duncan MacKenzie and Ryan Peter Miller finally welcome painter, educator, and perennial instigator Tyson Reeder to Bad at Sports. Recorded during Door County Contemporary Art Fair, the discussion wanders through the history of Milwaukee's DIY art scene, the legendary Dark Fair, artist-run culture, teaching, painting, collaboration, and the productive tension between sincerity and absurdity. Reeder reflects on organizing exhibitions as artistic experiments rather than scholarly declarations, d...

Bad at Sports Episode 962: Sophia Chai

August 03, 2026

This week Duncan MacKenzie and Brian Andrews sit down with artist Sophia Chai at the Door County Contemporary Art Fair to discuss photography that insists on becoming something else. Working between painting, sculpture, installation, and large-format analog photography, Chai creates images that challenge our assumptions about perspective, representation, and the mechanics of seeing itself.  The conversation moves from camera obscuras and four-by-five view cameras to Plato's Allegory of the Ca...

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