Podcast
Bad Art
A Podcast About the Politics of Art in the 21st Century
- Episodes
- 20
- Releases
- Every two weeks
- Typical length
- 1 hr 10 min
- On air since
- 2025
- Latest episode
- 2 weeks ago
Episodes
20 episodes, newest first
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1 hr 1 min
Artists in Horror Movies: Candyman with Kate Robertson
Show notes
In the 1992 horror film, Candyman, the Candyman monster is an artist whose painting hand was cut off and replaced by a hook. In the 2021 remake, the Candyman haunts a clique of arists, art dealers, and critics in contemporary Chicago. Using the Candyman films as a jumping off point, we discuss the surprisingly deep history of murderous art and artists in the horror genre, from Edgar Allen Poe’s “The Oval Portrait” through the present.
We’re joined by Kate Robertson, author of “Blood Lust: Realism, Violent Inspiration, and the Artist in Horror Cinema.” Learn more about Kate’s work here: https://katerobertson.me/about/
Clips from:
Candyman (1992)
and Candyman (2021)
We also discuss House of Wax (1953)
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51 min
9-11 Memorials
Show notes
Even before it opened, the 9/11 memorial and museum at the world trade center site was already controversial, condemned by survivor families for commercializing the tragedy. The museum’s gift shop, offering a commemorative 9/11 cheese board, seemed especially grotesque to many. (But, as George Bush said, days after 9/11, the way to defeat the terrorists was to “go shopping.”) Examining controversies around various 9/11 commemorations we ask how this memory shapes the US today. What political projects do 9/11 memorials serve, and who is excluded from commemoration.
Special thanks to Claire Panetta for guiding us through the museum.
We also drew on Benjamin Smith’s MERIP article “The Great Ports Panic of 2006” and Setha Low’s article “The Memorialization of 9/11” for background on debates and controversies.
We played clips from The Budweiser 9/11 Super Bowl commercialand U2’s bizarre post 9/11 Super Bowl halftime show.
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1 hr 4 min
1 Year of Bad Art!
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To celebrate one year of the Bad Art Pod, we ask the question: why Bad Art? What is this podcast about anyway?!
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1 hr 3 min
Islamic Art and Cultural Activism in the United States with Dustin Craun E17
Show notes
Dustin Craun is a Muslim cultural activist, founder of the Center for Global Muslim Life and co-founder of MPower Change. As a leader in these organizations, Dustin has been developing community art projects, public memory initiatives, and monument campaigns, which celebrate the often underappreciated role of Muslims in the civic life of the United States. He often strives for multiethnic collaboration and has worked closely with migrants and undocumented youth at the US Mexico border and indigenous communities in the Pacific Northwest. His projects show Muslims as part of a rich, vibrant, multiethnic community enlivening cultural life within the United States.
Learn more about Dustin’s work here:
https://www.globalmuslimlife.com/
https://www.beyondbordersarts.com/
In our conversation, Dustin mentions the following books and articles:
“Return of the Mecca: The Art of Islam and Hip-Hop” by Sohail Daulatzai.
“Muslim Cool: Race, Religion, and Hip Hop in the United States” by Su’ad Abdul Khabeer.
“Islam and the Cultural Imperative” Dr. Umar Faruq Abd-Allah
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27 min
Invited to Witness: Jennifer Lynn Kelly on Solidarity Tourism E16
Show notes
Colin talks with Jennifer Lynn Kelly, author of “Invited to Witness: Solidarity Tourism Across Occupied Palestine” to learn about the promise and pitfalls of solidarity tourism. On the one hand, solidarity tourism can be used to imagine and build a just future. On the other hand, it often recreates or reinforces structures of colonial inequality.
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Please check out Invited to Witness, available [here]
Kelly also talked in depth about the following:
Sophia Azeb: “Who Will We Be When We Are Free?” The Funambulist.
Dean Spade: “Impossibility Now: A Trans Politics Manifesto.”
Tanya Habjouqa: “Occupied Pleasures.”
Sophia Stamatopolou-Robbins: “The Joys and Dangers of Solidarity in Palestine: Prosthetic Engagement in an Age of Reparations.” The New Centennial Review.
And Colin mentioned:
Dina Matar and Venetia Porter eds. “Archiving Gaza in the Present.”
In our conversation, Kelly was diligent to note several people who have supported her work. Since not all of those shoutouts made it into the final edit, we’ll note that she credited Barbara Harlow, Ann Laura Stoller, and Ella Shohat.
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59 min
America's Birthday Parties Then and Now
Episode 15
Show notes
We look back at the man who called himself the “bicentennial president” — Richard M. Nixon — and the 1976 celebration he helped to plan. Examining the politics of past U.S. birthday parties, we ask what they can tell us about the present. How much has changed? We also spend some time talking about the World Cup and how much more fun it is than the Semiquincentennial. Yay 250!
Episode research draws heavily on two books:
Bicentennial! A Revolutionary History of the 1970s. by Marc Stein.
and
America, USA. How Race Shadows the Nation’s Anniversaries. by Eddie S. Glaude Jr.
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54 min
Oh The Inhumanity: On A.I. Art
Episode 14
Show notes
Today we take on A.I. art.
We discuss the following references:
Duesterberg, James. 2023. “Neither Governed Nor Free.” Boston Review. https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/neither-governed-nor-free/
Crabapple, Molly. 2026. “Is AI The Greatest Art Heist in History?” The Guardian. https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/apr/12/is-ai-the-greatest-art-heist-in-history
Winegar, Jessica. 2008. “The Humanity Game: Art, Islam, and the War on Terror.” Anthropological Quarterly. https://muse.jhu.edu/article/247134
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1 hr 18 min
“Relooted,” The Art Heist and Repatriation Video Game. With guest Akil Fletcher. E13
Show notes
We’re joined by Akil Fletcher, an anthropologist who studies the intersection of video gaming and race. We discuss “Relooted,” an exciting new art heist video game, where players raid Western art collections in order to steal art and repatriate that art to Africa.
For more about Akil or to read his scholarship: https://www.akilfletcher.com/
Mariel reads from the book “Mumbo Jumbo” by Ishmael Reed
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1 hr 16 min
Social Death
Episode 12
Show notes
Reflecting on current events, Mariel and Colin discuss the proliferation of atrocity images on social media. What is at stake when these images are treated as a tool of political mobilization?
References:
Sontag, Susan. 2003. Regarding the Pain of Others.
Eubanks, W. Ralph. 2025. Emmett Till Then and Now. in Bulletin by Monument Lab.
Hernandez, Joe. 2021. “Read this powerful statement from Darnella Frazier, who filmed George Floyd’s murder.” NPR. https://www.npr.org/2021/05/26/1000475344/read-this-powerful-statement-from-darnella-frazier-who-filmed-george-floyds-murd
Jackson, Jenn. 2022. “The Militancy of (Black) Memory ” SAQ. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-9825933
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1 hr 13 min
Can Art Solve Poverty? – (The Creative City Episode)
Episode 11
Show notes
This episode is a deep dive into the “creative city” model of urban planning. We talk about the ways that influential urban planners like Richard Florida and Charles Landry have promoted investment in the arts as a way to solve urban problems. We will answer the question, can art solve poverty? (Answer: No).
Key Sources:
Florida, Richard. The Rise of the Creative Class.
Landry, Charles. The Creative City A Toolkit for Innovators.
Melamed, Samantha. “Can this tiny storefront save Philly’s most drug-ravaged neighborhood?” Philadelphia Inquirer. March 30, 2017.
Denmead, Tyler. The Creative Underclass: Youth, Race, and the Gentrifying City.
Mould, Oli. Urban Subversion and the Creative City.
Montgomery, Alesia. “Reappearance of the Public. Placemaking, Minoritization, and Resistance in Detroit.” International Journal of Urban and Regional Research. 2016.
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1 hr 26 min
Bad Art's Halftime Spectacular
Episode 10
Show notes
In anticipation of the Super Bowl, and in response to conservative outrage over the selection of artist Bad Bunny as halftime performer, we present a deep dive into the history and politics of the NFL’s halftime show.
Major Sections Include:
Introducing the episode 00-1:30
Reflecting on current events 1:31-15:00
Recurring halftime themes and the identity of the NFL 15:00-24:52
The history of the halftime show 24:52-34:38
Nipplegate 38:48-49:16
Racial politics in the NFL 49:16-70:00
Michael Jackson’s Unprecedented Super Bowl Spectacular 70:00-74:46
The 2020s 74:46-78:27
Bad Bunny 78:27-end
We used clips from:
Super Bowl XXVI “winter magic”: https://youtu.be/6wMXHxWO4ns?si=wtqMFHe45ts4SE37
Up With People at Super Bowl XIV https://youtu.be/2ruQ1tj4MDA?si=KfMAbNwTtfnBk_Ab
Michael Jackson – Super Bowl XXVII 1993 Halftime Show: https://youtu.be/EsopN7JKUVs?si=oVd7-bkO338aXluL
References:
As N.F.L. Fights Racism and Sexism, Team Owners Undercut the Message. New York Times. 2021. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/25/sports/football/woody-johnson-trump-jets.html
Horowitz, Juliana Menasce, Kiana Cox and Kiely Hurst. 2025. “Views of Race, Policing and Black Lives Matter in the 5 Years Since George Floyd’s Killing.” Pew Research Center. May 7. https://www.pewresearch.org/race-and-ethnicity/2025/05/07/views-of-race-policing-and-black-lives-matter-in-the-5-years-since-george-floyds-killing/
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1 hr 14 min
Aesthetic Violence: Art in the War on Terror
Episode 9
Show notes
Honestly, we just wanted to do a normal episode that didn’t react to current events. We thought that the War on Terror would be a somewhat stable historical artifact. – Then Trump invaded Venezuela, kidnapped its president, and stole its oil. So this episode is unexpectedly relevant. While we don’t comment on Venezuela directly, there are some important themes in thinking about the aesthetics of war that are unfortunately topical.
References
Ronak Kapadia. “Insurgent Aesthetics: Security and the Queer Life of the Forever War.” https://www.dukeupress.edu/insurgent-aesthetics
Hirst Appologizes for Calling 9/11 ‘A Work of Art.’” The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/world/2002/sep/19/september11.usa
Leerom Medovoi. “Dogma Line Racism: Islamophobia and the Second Axis of Race.” https://read.dukeupress.edu/social-text/article-abstract/30/2%20(111)/43/33720/Dogma-Line-RacismIslamophobia-and-the-Second-Axis?redirectedFrom=fulltext
Jean Baudrillard. “The Gulf War Did Not Take Place.” https://www.amazon.com/Gulf-War-Did-Take-Place/dp/090995223X
Rumsfeld clip from “Control Room.” 2025. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCgfMdvk2n8&t=1390s
Committee to Protect Journalists. Dataset of Journalists and Media Workers Killed. https://cpj.org/data/killed/country/?status=Killed&motiveConfirmed%5B%5D=Confirmed&motiveUnconfirmed%5B%5D=Unconfirmed&type%5B%5D=Journalist&type%5B%5D=Media%20Worker&start_year=1992&end_year=2026&group_by=year
Caecilia Pieri. “Can T-Wall Murals Really Beautify the Fragmented Baghdad? https://www.jadaliyya.com/Details/30661
“Michael Rackowitz Brings Destroyed Iraqi Art Back To Life.” Northwestern University. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0jXG1cXxE1Y
Joshua Craze. “Junk Empire.” https://canopycanopycanopy.com/contents/junk-empire
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1 hr 20 min
It's Brutal
Episode 8
Show notes
“It’s Brutal!” Trump, Architecture, and American Authoritarianism. (Weird Little Architects Part II). E08.
In this follow up to our episode on Trump’s “Weird Little Architects” (E06) we examine the ways that architecture has been instrumentalized by the Trump administration. Through a close look at the Executive Order “Making Federal Architecture Beautiful Again,” and at administration comments around the renovation of the White House, we show how architecture is used by the administration to advance its authoritarian and white supremacist projects.
Major sections include:
Trump’s Architecture Program. 00-37:00
Fascist Aesthetics and the Demolition of the White House. 37:00-56:00
Brutalism and Modernism as a Contrast to the Trump Agenda. 56:00-81:00
We used clips from:
“Justin Shubow Interviewed About Brutalism on Newsmax – Greg Kelly Reports” https://youtu.be/OFRpqpdCikw?si=clvtWq8TSQEO1viR
“Stephen Miller: East Wing was Cheaply Built, Long Overdue for Renovation.” https://www.foxnews.com/video/6383815895112
Zoolander (2001)
References:
Krugman, Paul. 2025. “Trump’s Gilded Ballroom and the Fall of the American Republic.” https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/trumps-gilded-ballroom-and-the-fall
Koldehoff, Stephen and Tobias Timm. 2025. Donald Trump Has a History of Pulverizing Historic Buildings. Artnet. https://news.artnet.com/art-world/donald-trump-bonwit-teller-friezes-met-2132673
Benjamin, Walter. 1935. “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction.”
Medovoi, Leerom. 2012.
“Dogma-Line Racism: Islamophobia and the Second Axis of Race.” Social Text. 30 (2 (111)): 43–74. https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-1541754Compagnon, Madeline. 2020. “What Makes a ‘Beautiful’ Federal Building?” JSTOR Daily. https://daily.jstor.org/what-makes-a-beautiful-federal-building/
Volner, Ian. 2020. “Trump Can’t Make Architecture Great Again Without an Infrastructure Plan.” Artnews. https://www.artnews.com/art-in-america/columns/trump-make-architecture-great-again-maga-classicism-1202677813/
We used a quotation: “The Democrat Party’s main constituency are made up of Hamas terrorists, illegal aliens, and violent criminals,” which should be attributed to White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt.
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1 hr 29 min
The Reactionary Politics of “The Best American Poetry” – with guest Nick Sturm
Episode 7
Show notes
We invited Nick Sturm to join us to tell us about his recent Defector article, “Good Riddance to The Best American Poetry.” Nick tells us about the reactionary ideals which shaped the poetry anthology series and how these reactionary ideals influence American politics and the wider world of poetry.
Nick Sturm teaches at Georgia State University in Atlanta. His book “Publishing the New York School: Small Press Communities and American Poetry” will be published by Columbia University Press. Nick is also in the research stage on another book-length project, “The Poetry Business,” that examines the role of the state, nonprofits, universities, and philanthropy in the professionalization of American poetry. A few other forthcoming projects include a chapter on poet Frank O’Hara’s publishing history in “Frank O’Hara in Context” from Cambridge University Press; editing “The Collected Poems of Jim Brodey” for Nightboat Books; and a chapter on the relationship between federal arts funding and small press editorial practices in “The Bloomsbury Handbook of Literary Editing.”
You can find Nick’s article, “Good Riddance to The Best American Poetry” here: https://defector.com/good-riddance-to-the-best-american-poetry
In our conversation, Nick mentions Jonathan White’s article, “Thinking Generations:” https://eprints.lse.ac.uk/49483/1/White_thinking_generations.pdf
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1 hr 15 min
Weird Little Architects
Episode 6
Show notes
In this episode, we tell you about the weird little architects in Trump’s orbit and their plans to remake DC.
References
The National Civic Art Society: http://www.civicart.org
Website for Michael Curtis, the artist member of the NCAS https://theclassicalartist.com/statues
Video: Washington the Classical City: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7LkKnhtOPnc
“Hegel’s Aesthetics.” In the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/hegel-aesthetics/
Cole, Bruce. Art From the Swamp: How Washington Bureaucrats Squander Millions on Awful Art. https://www.amazon.com/Art-Swamp-Washington-Bureaucrats-Squander/dp/1594039968
Video: Roger Scruton: Why Beauty Matters. https://vimeo.com/549715999
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1 hr 11 min
Style Wars Revisited
Episode 5
Show notes
Colin and Mariel watch “Style Wars,” a classic documentary about New York City graffiti in 1982, and explore what this documentary can tell us about the politics of today.
References:
Style Wars (1982): https://youtu.be/CO9YgJXzRmk?si=Alsm22cBTOlZxOY1
Footage of the Burning of the Bronx from the 1977 World Series: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bnVH-BE9CUo
Interview with Tony Silver and Henry Chalfant. Hip Hop Slam: https://www.hiphopslam.com/articles/artic_StyleWarsDVD.html
Map: “How the Burning of the Bronx led to the Birth of Hip Hop,” originally from “Nonstop Metropolis: A New York City Atlas” Joshua Jelly-Shapiro and Rebecca Solnit eds. Featured on Independent Lens. PBS. https://www.pbs.org/independentlens/blog/how-the-burning-of-the-bronx-led-to-the-birth-of-hip-hop/
Rahn, Janice. “Painting Without Permission” https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/painting-without-permission-9780897898102/
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1 hr 4 min
Public Art on Trial
Episode 4
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Public Art On Trial:
In this episode, we examine the ways that major funders of public art in the US have often sought to use public art as a tool of social engineering. What did these funders hope that public art would achieve? And were they successful in their efforts to transform the social life of American cities? We will look at a number of high profile public art projects and controversies and attempt to evaluate the goals and impacts of public art in the US.
References:
Richard Serra Interview 1983: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pgtcyuXQ4T4
The Trial of Tilted Arc: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uxyhgUAYvB4
Kwon, Miwon. “One Place After Another: Site Specific Art and Locational Identity.” https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262612029/one-place-after-another/
For info on urban renewal and Calder Plaza: Michigan Live: Awash in concrete: How Calder Plaza came to be: https://www.mlive.com/news/grand-rapids/2016/10/grand_rapids_urban_renewal_exp.html
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1 hr 10 min
Banksy in Palestine
Episode 3
Show notes
The internationally famous graffiti artist, Banksy, has made 3 trips to Palestine, where he has attempted to use graffiti art to build solidarity with the Palestinian cause. What are the possibilities and limits of this form of artistic solidarity?
References:
Dan Brooks “Banksy and the Problem with Sarcastic Art.” NYT. Sept 10 2025. https://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/10/magazine/banksy-and-the-problem-with-sarcastic-art.html
Amahl Bishara. “Backstories: U.S. News Production and Palestinian Politics.” 2012. https://www.sup.org/books/middle-east-studies/back-stories
Shuruq Harb: “Don’t Confuse Me With The Monkey: On Banksy’s Walled Off Hotel.” Ocula. July 21 2017. https://ocula.com/magazine/spotlights/dont-confuse-me-with-the-monkey-on-banksys-wa/
Jennifer Lynn Kelly. “Invited To Witness: Solidarity Tourism Across Occupied Palestine.” 2023. https://www.dukeupress.edu/invited-to-witness
Channel 4 News. “Banksy documentary: Welcome to the Banksy art hotel in Bethlehem.” 2017. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMS6Ds3qryY&ab_channel=Channel4News
BanksyFilm. “Make this the year YOU discover a new destination.” 2015. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3e2dShY8jIo&ab_channel=banksyfilm
The Guardian. “After Banksy: The Parkour Guide to Gaza.” 2015. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZuHsRm5FBvA&ab_channel=TheGuardian
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53 min
Memorialize The Movement: Preserving Art From the George Floyd Uprising with Leesa Kelly and Amira McLendon. E02.
Episode 2
Show notes
Colin interviews Leesa Kelly and Amira McLendon of Memorialize the Movement about their experiences as Black activists working to preserve art from the 2020 uprising in Minneapolis. Kelly and McLendon offer insight into the racial politics of art preservation.
Links and References:
Memorialize the Movement: https://www.memorializethemovement.com/
Art and Artifact: Murals from the Minneapolis Uprising: https://www.upress.umn.edu/9781517918989/art-and-artifact/
Preservation for the People Podcast: https://blackartconservators.com/podcast/
Monument Lab’s National Monument Audit: https://monumentlab.com/audit
Jenn M. Jackson: “The Militancy of (Black) Memory: Theorizing Black-Led Movements as Disjunctures in the Normativity of White Ignorance.” https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-9825933
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1 hr 13 min
Very Fine Statues on Both Sides E01
Season 1, Episode 1
Show notes
On Trump’s obsession with and confederate statues. Recorded before the announcement that Trump would restore the confederate monument at Arlington and other monuments taken down in 2020.
References:
Cox, Karen.2019. Dixies Daughters: The United Daughters of the Confederacy and The Preservation of Confederate Culture. UP Florida. https://upf.com/book.asp?id=9780813064130
Southern Poverty Law Center map of confederate symbols, “Whose Heritage”: https://www.splcenter.org/whose-heritage-map/
A Pinterest of statue toppling images from 2020: https://pin.it/1vCPFbp6F
Clips:
CNN: Trump on Removal of Confederate General: Is George Washington Next? Aug 15 2017 https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=10157182610776509
CNBC: President Donald Trump on Charlottesville: You Had Very Fine People on Both Sides. Aug 15 2017. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JmaZR8E12bs
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