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Alicia Eler

Alicia Eler is a cultural critic and arts reporter. She is the author of the book The Selfie Generation (Skyhorse Publishing), which has been reviewed in the New York Times, WIRED Magazine and the Chicago Tribune. A native of Chicago by way of L.A., Alicia's writing has also been published in Glamour, the Guardian, CNN, Hyperallergic, Art21 Magazine, LA Weekly, and Aperture. She is currently the visual art critic/arts reporter at the Minneapolis Star Tribune.

Posted inBooks

Miami, Chonga Girls, and Claiming an Aesthetics of Excess

by Alicia Eler September 13, 2022September 15, 2022

Author Jillian Hernandez theorizes the intersecting formations of gender, class, and race in relation to the self-presentation of Black and Latina women and girls.

Posted inArt

What Makes Medieval Art So Meme-able?

by Alicia Eler April 28, 2022April 29, 2022

All over Instagram, medieval imagery has been remixed, captioned, and somehow reads as peak hilarious, depending on your sense of humor.

Posted inFilm

Being a Queer WOC in the Art World, as Seen on TV

by Alicia Eler September 19, 2021September 19, 2021

As a critic, I’m dying to make a meta-critique of the ways my communities are represented on screen.

Posted inArt

To Vaccine Selfie or Not to Vaccine Selfie?

by Alicia Eler June 9, 2021June 14, 2021

As COVID-19 vaccinations continue rollout in some countries, many feel conflicted about the selfie.

Posted inArt

For Turkish Women Artists and Advocates, #challengeaccepted Is About More Than Just Selfies

by Alicia Eler August 7, 2020November 5, 2020

As femicide rates continue to rise in the country, there’s more to consider than just the surface-level gesture of #womensupportingwomen.

Screenshot of Google Image search results for "selfie"
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In Search of the Authentic Selfie

by Alicia Eler November 9, 2017November 8, 2017

In this chapter from her new book, The Selfie Generation, Alicia Eler examines how artists and others have harnessed selfies as acts of defiant self-representation.

Posted inArt

The Queer Art that Helped Define Post-Blackness

by Alicia Eler March 1, 2017March 3, 2017

In his collection of essays, Derek Conrad Murray explores questions of post-blackness by drawing on the artworks of Glenn Ligon, Kehinde Wiley, Mickalene Thomas, and Kalup Linzy.

Posted inArt

When Great Art Makes You LOL

by Alicia Eler and Alex Huntsberger February 20, 2017January 11, 2021

Is funny art actually funny? The answer, as we see it, is a rousing chorus of “it depends.”

Posted inArt

Show Me the Money! Collective Fundraises for Pyramid to House 14,000 ‘Jerry Maguire’ Tapes

by Alicia Eler February 7, 2017

Everything Is Terrible! has 14,000 VHS tapes of the Hollywood film and wants $400,000 to lodge them in the southern California desert.

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An Online Project Shames Selfie-Takers at Berlin’s Holocaust Memorial

by Alicia Eler January 31, 2017January 31, 2017

In his chilling project “YOLOCAUST,” Shahak Shapira manipulates the original selfies at the memorial to include actual photos of Nazi crimes.

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LA Artists Raised $100K for the ACLU — Now What?

by Alicia Eler January 24, 2017January 24, 2017

A benefit sale over post–Inauguration Day weekend featured T-shirts, buttons, and works by more than 200 artists.

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An Artist Reinvents Herself to Mine the Fictions of America

by Alicia Eler January 9, 2017January 9, 2017

Genevieve Gaignard makes the personal political while also creating new American mythologies.

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