by Alicia | Nov 20, 2013 | Hyperallergic
Artist and fashion designer Peggy Noland’s four dresses of Oprah’s face Photoshopped onto variously sized black female bodies perpetuate American pop culture’s rampant racism. Modeled by a white woman, the dresses suggest that anyone can go ahead and “try on” a black...
by Alicia | Nov 20, 2013 | Hyperallergic
CHICAGO — If Jean Genet shit out the text from his book The Thief’s Journal, which he wrote on toilet paper while in prison, and cheerleaders barfed up blood and guts in high school, they might combined look like the conceptual results of Oakland-based Jason...
by Alicia | Nov 15, 2013 | Hyperallergic
CHICAGO — There’s an archetypal monster in your mind, and his name is Frankenstein. In a lecture presented this past Saturday, November 9, at the Chicago Humanities Festival, Heather Keenleyside discussed this notorious monster in relation to this year’s theme...
by Alicia | Nov 15, 2013 | Hyperallergic
CHICAGO — Boys don’t cry, and young girls fight back with their psychic powers in directorKimberly Peirce’s films. This past Saturday in Chicago, Peirce, the director of Boys Don’t Cry,Stop-Loss, and most notably the new remake of Carrie, took to the stage with WBEZ...
by Alicia | Nov 15, 2013 | Hyperallergic, Selfie Column
CHICAGO — “In the world of networked individuals, it is the person who is the focus: not the family, not the work unit, not the neighborhood, and not the social group,” write authors Lee Rainie and Barry Wellman in their 2012 book Networked: The New Social Operating...
by Alicia | Nov 15, 2013 | Hyperallergic
CHICAGO — Leila’s Hair Museum in Independence, Missouri bills itself as the only museum of its kind in the world. Located in the back of Leila’s Independence College of Cosmetology, an unassuming storefront covered by a mirror-like material. It is owned and operated...
