Art
Show Me the Money! Collective Fundraises for Pyramid to House 14,000 'Jerry Maguire' Tapes
Everything Is Terrible! has 14,000 VHS tapes of the Hollywood film and wants $400,000 to lodge them in the southern California desert.
Alicia Eler
Alicia Eler is a cultural critic and arts reporter at the Minneapolis Star Tribune and author of "The Selfie Generation: How Our Self-Images Are Changing Our Notions of Privacy, Sex, Consent, and Culture" (2017).
Art
An Online Project Shames Selfie-Takers at Berlin's Holocaust Memorial
In his chilling project "YOLOCAUST," Shahak Shapira manipulates the original selfies at the memorial to include actual photos of Nazi crimes.
Art
LA Artists Raised $100K for the ACLU — Now What?
A benefit sale over post–Inauguration Day weekend featured T-shirts, buttons, and works by more than 200 artists.
Art
An Artist Reinvents Herself to Mine the Fictions of America
Genevieve Gaignard makes the personal political while also creating new American mythologies.
Art
Artists' Fascination with the Soft, Tingling Sensations of ASMR
As ASMR videos have sped across the internet, artists have started making their own versions, inducing shivers with soft sounds like clacking, cracking, scratching, and whispering.
Art
A Miniature Version of the Broad Museum Parodies the Art World
LOS ANGELES — Scott Marvel Cassidy’s art makes viewers do a double take.
Art
6 Male Artists Making Inspiring Feminist Work
We all know about the terrible gender disparity in the art world. As ladies, we live with systemic sexism on a daily basis.
Film
Twenty Years Later, Returning to a Pioneering Black Lesbian Film
It's the 1990s when a young, ambitious filmmaker goes on the hunt for "the Watermelon Woman," a black actress who played mostly mammy roles in 1930s and '40s Hollywood films.
Film
A Filmmaker Probes the Magic and Madness of Female Adolescence
LOS ANGELES — As a woman who was once a teenage girl, I have a certain fondness for any filmic or visual art that harkens back to that time of intense, unbridled feelings, awkward physical changes, and sexual desires running wild ’n free.
Books
Supercharged Sex and Corporate Control in a Queer Erotic Novel
In My Wet Hot Drone Summer, anti-surveillance activists defeating corporate overlords is strangely sexy.
Art
Inhabiting Other People's Recorded Memories
The group exhibition Memory Burn at bitforms gallery, curated by Chris Romero, explores the devices we use to record our lives as we confront mortality and death.
Art
Breathing Life into a High-Tech, Glowing Sphere
Back in the late '90s, I considered going to raves.