by Alicia | Dec 29, 2016 | Press
I’m so pleased to have my LA art pick on this 2016 list for Hyperallergic. This year may have sucked on many levels, but at least the art in LA did not! Here’s my pick: Read all the LA picks...
by Alicia | Dec 26, 2016 | Writing
Me and many other fantastic writers were invited to contribute my thoughts on the most important and least important events of 2016 for The Morning News. Check out what I said below, and read thoughts from other wonderful writers on this post:...
by Alicia | Dec 19, 2016 | LA Weekly, Writing
“April is the cruelest month, breeding/Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing/Memory and desire, stirring/Dull roots with spring rain,” T.S. Eliot writes in his epic poem, “The Wasteland.” This poem couldn’t have predicted the start of the Dakota Access...
by Alicia | Dec 8, 2016 | Hyperallergic, News, Writing
Sometimes we all just want someone’s gentle, soothing voice whispering in our ear that it’s all going to be okay, or we long to hear some meditative, relaxing sounds that induce calming sensations.ASMR, or “autonomous sensory meridian response,” offers these types of...
by Alicia | Oct 20, 2016 | Aperture, Writing
Spanning over eighty years of photographs, an exhibition explores the gender non-conforming potential of the word “they.” The singular gender-neutral pronoun “they” was named word of the year in 2016. Judging from the social and historical depth of photography and...