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Posted inOpinion

Enough With the Selfies; Look at the Art

Avatar photo by Dereck Stafford Mangus December 11, 2022December 13, 2022

Museum guard Dereck Stafford Mangus urges museumgoers to put their phones down, just for a minute.

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

When Tragedy Strikes, Social Media Posts Can Become Invaluable Artifacts

by Eliza Levinson June 25, 2019November 4, 2019

As Notre-Dame burned, there was controversy over people responding by sharing selfies they’d taken at the cathedral. But there may be public value in this practice.

Posted inIn Brief

Why Google’s Art Selfie App Doesn’t Work in Texas and Illinois

Avatar photo by Benjamin Sutton January 17, 2018January 17, 2018

Both states have strict user privacy laws governing the use of biometric identifiers like scans of facial geometry.

Posted inIn Brief

Google App Matching Selfies with Historical Portraits Has Mixed Results But Is 100% Viral

Avatar photo by Benjamin Sutton January 16, 2018January 16, 2018

A new feature of the Google Arts & Culture app promises to match users’ selfies with similar faces in artworks, though the algorithm’s questionable pairings are often just as interesting as its uncanny matches.

Screenshot of Google Image search results for "selfie"
Posted inArt

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 inNews

Museumgoer Breaks a Kusama Pumpkin, Allegedly in Pursuit of a Selfie [UPDATED]

by Claire Voon February 27, 2017November 2, 2017

According to museum visitors, someone attempting to take a selfie in Yayoi Kusama’s newest mirror room fell into the gleaming patch of pumpkin sculptures and broke one of them.

Posted inIn Brief

Bronze Sculpture of Selfie-Snappers Stirs a Storm in Sugar Land

by Claire Voon May 31, 2016June 9, 2016

It may very well be the first public sculpture that commemorates the act of taking a selfie.

Posted inArt

Carl Andre, Museum Etiquette, and Me

Avatar photo by Debra Brehmer May 31, 2016June 1, 2016

MILWAUKEE — As I look at this photograph of myself, lying flat with arms outstretched on the Carl Andre, I wonder about my violation of museum etiquette.

Posted inArt

Altarpieces for the Digital Age

by Susan Silas March 9, 2016March 8, 2016

Enter Transfer gallery and your entire field of vision is instantly taken up by a vast screen, measuring 10 by 10 feet, nearly the width of the room.

Posted inIn Brief

Neigh-sayer Calls Foal Play, Asks Family to Pony Up for Snapping Selfie with Her Horse

by Claire Voon February 3, 2016February 3, 2016

The owner of a horse that photobombed a contest-winning selfie, snapped by a three-year-old boy of him and his father, is demanding a share of the prize, arguing that the family should have asked her for permission prior to taking the photograph.

Posted inNews

PETA Sues on Behalf of #MonkeySelfie Macaque

by Laura C. Mallonee September 24, 2015September 24, 2015

It’s the 21st century, and monkeys take selfies. But do they own the copyrights to those images? PETA says yes.

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