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If you’d like to learn more about Alicia’s arts journalism, artist essays, experimental writing, art and curatorial work, please click. ARTS JOURNALISM: Alicia’s arts journalism has been published in Artforum.com, Art Papers, Time Out Chicago, Chicago Tribune, Newcity Newspaper, Flavorpill, Kansas City Review magazine, Chicago Gallery News, Windy City Times, Curve Magazine, and many other publications. She covered Season 1 of BRAVO’s “Work of Art: The [...]

Sylvia, Nicole Hollander and Alicia Eler on WTTW’s Chicago Tonight, December 20th 2010

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How did Sylvia Cartoonist Nicole Hollander become a BadGirlChats blogger with a bustling online community? Social Media Consultant & Writer Alicia Eler discuss Hollander’s entrance into the blogosphere on WTTW’s Chicago Tonight. The original broadcast aired on Monday, December 20 at 7:00 Central Time. And here’s an additional shout-out from Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Art Critic, [...]

ArtSlant Feature: “America’s Queer Boys” Story [PRESS]

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From ArtSlant Editor Abraham Ritchie: As animated birds flitter overhead and the man spins, the stereotypes and clichés of the players, their roles and their setting becomes apparent.  It also reminded me of a recent article written by Alicia Eler and Patricia Herrmann on gender roles and nature. read the full post here: http://www.artslant.com/chi/articles/show/18827

BRAVO’s Work of Art and America’s Queer Boys, Episode 9: Natural Talents

"Swimming Hole" by Thomas Eakins (1889)

By Alicia Eler & Patricia Herrmann American culture idealizes the beautiful boy as one who lives “between the innocence of babyhood and the dignity of manhood.” Unlike adults, he is alive to “enjoy every second of every minute of every hour of every day…”  The beautiful boy can do no wrong. His natural habitat is [...]

Letter to Latham Zearfoss for TRUST ME: SELECTED WORKS BY LATHAM ZEARFOSS

Still from "Self Control" by Latham Zearfoss

I had the honor and pleasure of writing a letter to Latham Zearfoss for his upcoming show Selected Works By Latham Zearfoss this Saturday, September 4 at 7 & 9pm at the Nightengale. Facebook Invite for “Trust Me: Selected Works by Latham Zearfoss” Here’s the letter, dated September 1, 2010: Dear Latham, A few years [...]

Brassai’s 1932 Gay World in the Year 2010

"Femme and Butch" (2010)

We restaged Brassai’s 1932 photograph “Butch and Femme,” which captures a gay Parisian couple out to dinner. Reimagining this photograph in the context of the 21st century leads viewers to question what it means to be queer, and questions the assumed gender roles of traditional lesbian relationships.

A Widow is a Work of Art: Peregrine Honig’s “The Widow Having a Conversation with Herself” on BRAVO’s Work of Art, Episode 2

Peregrine Honig's "The Widow Having a Conversation with Herself"

Last week on BRAVO’s art reality television show, Work of Art, Peregrine Honig eased into the third round with nary a glance from art critic Jerry Saltz and nods from her fellow contestants. BRAVO isn’t getting much play from Peregrine. She doesn’t shit-talk the other contestants. She shows up to the studio with a smile, [...]

Peregrine Honig on BRAVO’s “Work of Art: The Next Great Artist,” Episode 1

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Tonight, my dear friend and fellow queen bee, Peregrine Honig, will appear on BRAVO’s reality television show, Work of Art: The Next Great Artist. In each episode of the show, the contestants create works of art from a variety of mediums that are designed to “push the limits of their technical skills and creative boundaries,” [...]

Alicia Eler at Shak’s Memorial Day Comedy Bash in Oak Park

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It was a real honor to be included in Shak’s Memorial Day Comedy Bash on Saturday, May 29th, at Lido’s Caffe in Oak Park, with fellow stand-up comics Cameron Esposito, Mo Welch, Dara Katz, David Drake, and the hilarious and creative Concordia Improv Troupe. Thanks to Shak for being an awesome host, to Lido for [...]

ChicagoNow featured in Mashable article “How to Monetize the News”

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ChicagoNow.com, the site that I worked on in 2009, is in yet another Mashable article about monetizing the news. Congrats to the team!