by Alicia | Dec 6, 2017 | Writing
From Artforum, April 13, 2013, by Alicia Eler: If “X” marks the spot, and three Xs mean “poison, do not drink,” the seven Xs that make up the title of Abigail DeVille’s exhibition suggest a marking of double the poison, plus one drop for location. The socioeconomics...
by Alicia | Dec 6, 2017 | Writing
From Artforum, December 12, 2012, by Alicia Eler: Dutes Miller’s queer utopia is a romp through Adam and Steve’s Garden of Eden. “In the Garden” presents the gallery-as-landscape peppered with clusters of oddly sexualized finger-fungi outgrowths harvesting on patches...
by Alicia | Dec 6, 2017 | Harper's Bazaar, Writing
I was supposed to have a reading of my book, The Selfie Generation, at Garrison Keillor’s bookstore last week, in St. Paul, Minnesota. I canceled the talk after Keillor was accused of alleged inappropriate behavior with a co-worker. Ironically, Keillor couched some of...
by Alicia | Nov 15, 2017 | Selfie Press, selfiegeneration
From New York Post, November 11, 2017, by Jennifer Wright: “There’s a fairly common refrain in these pieces that selfie takers are “narcissistic,” despite the fact that a 2017 study from Brigham Young University indicated that’s not generally true. As Alicia...
by Alicia | Nov 15, 2017 | selfiegeneration
From the Chicago Reader, January 10, 2018, by Alicia Swiz: If you’re an Instagram user, you’ve probably noticed a hashtag called #2017bestnine circulating in your feed during the past few weeks. It’s from the Top Nine app, first launched in 2015, on...
