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Kiev’s Attractive New Police Force Told to Pose for Selfies with Civilians

by Laura C. Mallonee July 10, 2015

When 2,000 new police officers were sworn into duty in Kiev last Saturday, Ukrainians couldn’t help noticing how attractive the recruits — a quarter of them women — looked.

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Russia Releases “Safe Selfie” Guide After String of Deaths and Injuries

by Claire Voon July 8, 2015July 11, 2015

Snapping selfies can have pretty serious effects, like damaging art in the quest for likes. In Russia, though, death has become a troublingly common consequence of taking selfies.

Posted inIn Brief

Obamas Abandon Photo Ban, Bringing Selfies to the White House

by Claire Voon July 1, 2015July 4, 2015

This morning, the White House lifted its ban on cameras and photography during public tours, which signals the first time in over 40 years that images by photographers without official credentials will emerge from the famous rooms of the US president’s residence.

Posted inArt

Taking Selfies for College Credit

by Laura C. Mallonee June 8, 2015June 5, 2015

We all have those annoying social media friends whose incessant selfies seem little more than digital bragging.

Posted inIn Brief

Selfie Snappers Smash Baroque Sculpture in Herculean Feat of Stupidity

Avatar photo by Benjamin Sutton May 4, 2015November 2, 2017

On Friday two tourists visiting the northern Italian city of Cremona broke part of an 18th-century sculpture they were climbing to take a selfie.

Posted inIn Brief

An Art Museum Designed for Taking Selfies

by Laura C. Mallonee March 16, 2015March 19, 2015

Most museums across the US and Europe have had a difficult time handling the selfie onslaught.

Posted inBooks

Someone Made a Book of #artselfies

by Alicia Eler March 2, 2015March 3, 2015

The selfie exists everywhere that people own smartphones. DIS Magazine’s #artselfie, published by Jean Boîte Éditions, attempts to freeze one aspect of this cultural moment — the art selfie — by parlaying its meaning into a gleaming, print-only book

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Defiant of the Future, Museums Ban Selfie Sticks

by Jillian Steinhauer February 5, 2015February 8, 2015

Oh, art museums. You’re so fickle — like a guy who sends a charming message on Tinder and then disappears after the first tryst.

Posted inOpinion

The #MuseumSelfie Scourge Is Upon Us

Avatar photo by Hrag Vartanian January 21, 2015June 15, 2015

What have we done to deserve this? Today is a day that will forever be remembered as a plague on our social media feeds, a moment that ruptured our visual culture with a barrage of grainy images of people the world over visiting museums.

Posted inIn Brief

Museums Should Institute No-Photo Hour, British Arts Executive Suggests

by Jillian Steinhauer September 16, 2014September 20, 2014

One month after the big news that London’s National Gallery now allows visitors to take photographs, the head of Arts Council England has proposed that museums institute a special hour every day when picture-taking is banned.

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Before Selfies, There Were Self-Timers

by Daniel Larkin September 4, 2014September 7, 2014

People were photographing themselves long before the advent of iPhones. A collection of proto-selfies from the mid to late 20th century come together at the Austrian Cultural Forum for the summer exhibition Self-Timer Stories, curated by Felicitas Thun-Hohenstein.

Posted inOpinion

Ancient Statues Pose for Selfies

by Alicia Eler August 12, 2014August 12, 2014

It’s one thing to take a #museumselfie with a work of art, as if to say, “yes, I was here with this artwork” or “yes, here is my reflection in the surface of this piece.” It’s another thing to make Greco-Roman statues look like they were chiseled specifically for selfie-shooting moments.

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Iranian Artist Minoo Emami’s Retrospective Opens at the Hartford Art School Galleries
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Iranian Artist Minoo Emami’s Retrospective Opens at the Hartford Art School Galleries

Featuring two decades of interdisciplinary art along with new work created in response to the ongoing Women’s Rights Movement in Iran, the exhibition is on view in Hartford, Connecticut.

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