Bad At Sports

This Week: Has it really been 6 years? Really? Wow. Duncan and Richard have a rambling bout of personal abuse as the intro and then get on to the good stuff. Richard talks to Peter Zegers and Jill Bugajski about their work on the stellar new show at the Art Institute of Chicago Windows on the War, Soviet TASS Posters at Home and Abroad, 1941-1945, and on the accompanying catalog. Overview: During World War II, the Soviet Union's news agency, TASS, enlisted hundreds of artists and writers to bolster support for the nation's war effort. Working from the TASS studio in Moscow, these artists and writers produced hundreds of storefront window posters, one for nearly every day of the war. Windows on the War: Soviet TASS Posters at Home and Abroad, 1941-1945 is a monumental exhibition centered on these posters, which have not been seen in the United States since the Second World War. Impressively large, between five and ten feet tall and striking in the vibrancy and texture of the stencil medium, these posters were