Bad at Sports Episode 948: Esther Park

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 curator and cultural programmer Esther Park—the force behind this year's public programming at New Art Dealers Alliance (NADA).

Park traces her origin story from working the front desk at the Museum of Contemporary Art North Miami to throwing illegal block parties in Wynwood, to shaping NADA's ambitious "Ecologies" program. The conversation spirals (as it should) into art world mythologies, Miami as mirage, the collapse and reinvention of criticism, and why the real work happens far below the visible surface.

This is a conversation about infrastructure, community, exhaustion, joy, and why—despite everything—the ecosystem still matters.

• Esther Park — cultural programmer and curator (NADA Public Programming)

• Duncan MacKenzie — https://kurasmackenzie.com/

• Ryan Peter Miller — http://ryanpetermiller.com/

• New Art Dealers Alliance — https://www.newartdealers.org/

• Art Basel — https://www.artbasel.com/

• Sam Keller — https://www.patrickparrish.com/artist/sam-keller

• Knight Foundation — https://knightfoundation.org/

• Pérez Art Museum Miami — https://www.pamm.org/

• Heather Hubbs — https://www.newartdealers.org/

• Mel Chin — https://melchin.org/

• Jerry Saltz — https://nymag.com/author/jerry-saltz/

• Roberta Smith — https://www.nytimes.com/by/roberta-smith

• Peter Schjeldahl — https://www.newyorker.com/contributors/peter-schjeldahl

• Christopher Knight — https://www.latimes.com/people/christopher-knight

• Hyperallergic — https://hyperallergic.com/

• Ben Davis — https://www.benadavis.com/

• Artnet — https://www.artnet.com/

• Brad Troemel — https://bradtroemel.com/

• Jerry Gogosian — https://www.instagram.com/jerrygogosian/

• Lori Waxman — https://60wrdmin.org/home.html

• KAWS — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaws

• Alec Monopoly — https://www.alecmonopoly.com/

• Beeple — https://www.beeple-crap.com/