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).
Interview
LOS ANGELES — Artists who work in the digital realm are increasingly gaining recognition with exhibitions, auctions, and biennials. A new artist/writer-led online magazine called NOOART: The Journal of Objectless Art seeks to further the discussion about this type of work.
Art
CHICAGO — It was 1950, and the men were hot, greased up, and posing as if they were the original "David." Then they were photographed and choreographed by Chuck Renslow, who founded Kris Studios for male physique photography, at a time when gay male sexuality operated underground. Nearly 65 years la
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LOS ANGELES — Whether you like your selfies singular and meditative or coupled and cozy, there's always an opportunity to see yourselfie anew.
Interview
Striking Resemblance: The Changing Art of Portraiture at Rutger University's Zimmerli Art Museum considers some 200 years (c. 1800 to the present) of the portrait's history in mediums two-, three- and four-dimensional, with 130 works by approximately 80 artists.
Art
CHICAGO — There are selfies for every occasion, outfit, haircut, new pair of glasses, and reflective work of art, and then there are accidental selfies in Craigslist mirrors.
Opinion
CHICAGO — It was the second wave of feminism. I wasn't alive yet, but I like to daydream about what it would have been like to attend those women's consciousness-raising meetings, female-centric spiritual get-togethers, heated strategic battles over how to win reproductive rights, and the space to e
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CHICAGO — John Chaich's exhibition Queer Threads considers artworks that use craft aesthetics to reclaim, reimagine, and renegotiate previously accepted hierarchies of visual culture.
Interview
CHICAGO — For artist Tom Burtonwood, the transition into 3D scanning and printing was as natural as popping food into a microwave rather than settling for cold leftovers.
Art
CHICAGO — There will be hundreds of exhibitions between now and the end of March, when the weather starts to warm up around these Middle West parts. Here's 10.
Art
CHICAGO — The 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia, will begin on February 7, but the selfie olympics have already gone viral.
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LOS ANGELES — Every day, a weirdo is born. Some people feel as if they have the word terminally painted across their foreheads and need no reminders of their weirdness. Others visit artist Kristin Calabrese's studio — as I did right after getting off a plane in Los Angeles, a city I’d never before b
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CHICAGO — The Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago's Warhol and Marisol focuses on the conversational nature of artworks produced by artists Andy Warhol and Marisol Escobar, who got to know each other in the 1960s.