Art
A New Vision for Chicago's Oldest Feminist Gallery
CHICAGO — The feminist art space Woman Made Gallery (WMG) is shifting its vision to one that focuses on feminism and feminist art-making as it relates to class, ethnicity and age.
Alicia Eler
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Selfie Discomfort and the Public Gaze
CHICAGO — I have to be honest with you: I feel uncomfortable receiving your selfies. Even though I have asked you for them, and you offered consent through your action of sending them to me. You made a decision to email me something privately, and that I can assure you is viewed privately, by me, at
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The Beginnings of Selfie Community
CHICAGO — Is there such a thing as too much of the self? In the age of social networked identities, webcam tears, and plain old selfie criminology, it is possible to indulge in too much self-exploration online.
Interview
What It's Like to Be the Sole Survivor of a Commercial Airline Disaster
CHICAGO — Chicago-based documentary filmmaker Ky Dickens' newest film, Sole Survivor, tells the stories of four of the 14 sole survivors of commercial airline disasters.
Opinion
The Wonderful World of Women in Slacks
CHICAGO — Jill Peters' photo series Sworn Virgins of Albania went viral last week. For the fascinating and honest portrayal of women who live their lives as men, the artist visited the mountain villages of northern Albania where she shot burneshas, or "women who have lived their lives as men for rea
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On the Origin of Selfies
CHICAGO — A selfie is a certain type of self-portrait photography shot with a digital camera or smartphone. Selfies are typically of-the-moment images, require little to no planning, and usually occur in domestic settings such as the bedroom or bathroom.
Interview
Agricultural Evolution Leads to the New Garden City
CHICAGO — Before centuries of modernization and industry settled in, Gentofte, Denmark, was a simple farming town under the vision of a single lord with 42 serfs. Over the past 200 years, Gentofte has evolved into what is rightly considered a suburb. In the exhibition New Garden City, curator Aukje
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A New Documentary Lays Bare the Gender Bias in Comics
CHICAGO — Why is it that comics continue to be read mostly as a white, heterosexual, and masculine medium when that's clearly, totally, not at all the case?
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Documenting China's Burgeoning Bra Industry
CHICAGO — There's a 50 square mile area in China between Chendian Town, Chaonan and Gurao Town where most of the brassieres in the world are produced. It is with fascination and awareness of this global market that artist Priscilla Briggs embarked upon her photo series The Road to Shantou to tell a
Interview
Queer Becomings in a Dystopian World
CHICAGO — Somewhere in a Neverland-type realm located outside of an urban center, gender-ambiguous characters roam free, constructing their own sexualities, identities, social rules and families.
Interview
The Making of Urban Agitpop
CHICAGO — The self-proclaimed title of "urban pop artist" suits Margarita Korol well. As the one-woman artist/president of her creative practice, Korol blatantly straddles the world of commercial, pop, and fine art, and she's as much at home in being distributed at Zuccotti Park at Occupy Wall Stree
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Selfie Criminology
CHICAGO — Last month in Halmstad, Sweden, two teenage girls took a selfie together in a bathroom while wearing balaclavas and holding a knife. They would go on to rob a fast-food restaurant making off with a mere $400 before getting arrested. The cops found that selfie on one of their smartphones. H