by Alicia | Dec 25, 2017 | Writing
From “The Morning News”, December 26, 2016, by Alicia Eler: https://themorningnews.org/article/2016-the-year-that-was-and-wasnt Alicia Eler The Electoral College was set up to ensure the free North would not outnumber the slaveholding South. Most...
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 | Sep 27, 2017 | Writing
From Hyperallergic, February 18, 2014: Professor Ann Collins Johns at the University of Texas at Austin was just as peeved as many people were about President Barack Obama’s knock on art history majors. So she did what any self-assured art historian would do and wrote...
by Alicia | Sep 27, 2017 | Writing
From Artforum, September 2017: A giant white gym sock covering a robotic arm that once functioned in a Detroit auto-manufacturing plant speaks in a deadening monotone to passersby. He talks about what it’s like to become useless and rambles about other topics as well:...
