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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 inArt

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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Artists’ Fascination with the Soft, Tingling Sensations of ASMR

by Alicia Eler December 7, 2016December 7, 2016

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.

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A Miniature Version of the Broad Museum Parodies the Art World

by Alicia Eler July 19, 2016July 19, 2016

LOS ANGELES — Scott Marvel Cassidy’s art makes viewers do a double take.

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6 Male Artists Making Inspiring Feminist Work

by Alicia Eler July 18, 2016July 18, 2016

We all know about the terrible gender disparity in the art world. As ladies, we live with systemic sexism on a daily basis.

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Twenty Years Later, Returning to a Pioneering Black Lesbian Film

by Alicia Eler March 7, 2016March 14, 2016

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.

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A Filmmaker Probes the Magic and Madness of Female Adolescence

by Alicia Eler February 26, 2016February 26, 2016

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.

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Supercharged Sex and Corporate Control in a Queer Erotic Novel

by Alicia Eler February 24, 2016February 27, 2016

In My Wet Hot Drone Summer, anti-surveillance activists defeating corporate overlords is strangely sexy.

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Inhabiting Other People’s Recorded Memories

by Alicia Eler July 29, 2015

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.

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Breathing Life into a High-Tech, Glowing Sphere

by Alicia Eler July 23, 2015July 23, 2015

Back in the late ’90s, I considered going to raves.

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From Cum Shots to Orgasmic GIFs, a Playful Take on Virtual Sex

by Alicia Eler July 8, 2015July 8, 2015

Faith Holland’s show TECHNOPHILIA at Transfer Gallery left me wanting more, kind of like I imagine a good dick pic would.

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California Artists Address Coast-to-Coast Political Struggles

by Alicia Eler May 22, 2015May 22, 2015

What goes West must always return East because New York is still the center of the American art market.

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Performance Artists Use Stand-Up Tropes, but Not For Laughs

by Alicia Eler May 11, 2015May 13, 2015

LOS ANGELES — There’s nothing funny about art. Writing art criticism is a serious endeavor. But at some point, the performance of professionalism in the art world just started to feel like one big joke.

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