Facebook Is for Moms / Hyperallergic
CHICAGO — Every mother will attest to the fact that once you become responsible for a child’s life, your own life completely changes. And with that shift comes a new way to both see and question your relationship to society, your body, and your own sexuality. In the...
Weird Dumb Dude Energy / Hyperallergic
CHICAGO — Born from the girl brains of Chicago artists Eileen Mueller and Jamie Steele of the curatorial project GURLDONTBEDUMB (GDBD), the exhibition Weird Dude Energy (WDE) takes its inspiration from the blog of the same name, which was started in 2008 by Christine...
Take a Good Look at Your Selfie / Hyperallergic
CHICAGO — A few weeks ago, I thought that I’d had it with selfies It began with a simple Facebook post declaring: “Just say NO to SELFIES <3 <3 <3.” Less than a week later, I found myself doing exactly what I feared: Alone in a dressing room at Target, I...
If Likes Could Kill / Hyperallergic
CHICAGO — Your Facebook life won’t last forever, and you know it. That’s the gist of Geoffrey Lillemon and Stööki’s project “Like to Death,” which was commissioned by corporate giant Adidas and confronts the idea of social media death and death on social media. The...
How to Get Lena Dunham, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, and Catherine Opie to Send You an Email / Hyperallergic
CHICAGO — We are “connected” yet always alone. It’s a shared sentiment that will define this internet generation of likers, commenters, rebloggers, texters, and pinners. These are the selfie-shooters who take smartphone images of themselves in the privacy of their...
I, Selfie: Saying Yes to Selfies / Hyperallergic
CHICAGO — People online have a lot to say about selfies: love them, hate them, feel indifferent about them, think they’re part of internet culture, a place we escape to, meld with our offline lives (making for a fluid but often fraught IRL-URL existence), something we...
The Facelessness of Tomorrow Begins Today / Hyperallergic
CHICAGO — It is impossible to go back to a world without biometrics and facial recognition tools, but it is not too late for a political act against the idea of allowing our faces to be scanned for the purpose of surveillance or informatic capture. In an age of...
How to Become Queerly Mentored / Hyperallergic
CHICAGO — While New York may be the American epicenter of all things art, continually battling it out with the fantasyland that is Los Angeles, the opportunity to work with an older, possibly queerer mentor (queerer in the sense that they’re older than you and have...
White Womens’ Bodies as Selfie-Objectified Tools of Dissent / Hyperallergic
CHICAGO — “Even if you’re not doing anything wrong, you’re being watched and recorded,” 29-year-old spy Edward Snowden told the Guardian last Sunday, openly identifying himself as the whistleblower on the NSA PRISM program, which he alleged is gathering communications...
There are no unicorns in North Korea / Salon.com & Hyperallergic
CHICAGO — Last December, rumors about a North Korean unicorn lair circulated on the internet. Word got out that an ancient Korean king once rode this mythical beast. But soon it was discovered that this “unicorn” was not an actual unicorn, but rather an English...
Closing the Loop: Fan Art, Part 2 / Hyperallergic
Editor’s note: This is the second installment of a two-part series on the intersection of fan art and contemporary art. Read part 1 here. CHICAGO — Falling in love with an image isn’t easy. Images are unattainable, removed, and physically distant, yet they feel so...
Winning “Work of Art,” 1.5 Years Later / Hyperallergic
Kymia Nawabi took home first prize on season two of Bravo’s Work of Art: The Next Great Artist, taking home $100,000 and a solo exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum. On the final episode of Work of Art, she organized her works in a presentation titled Not for Long, My...
A Print Outpost for America’s Overlooked Art Metropolises / Hyperallergic
CHICAGO — The idea of a city-specific annual art magazine available only in a tightly bound assortment of chunky-thick pages, glossy front-and-back covers, and near-cardstock paper is the antithesis of what we at Hyperallergic present to you, dear reader. In a world...
This Artist Is Toasted / Hyperallergic
CHICAGO — When isn’t art good for breakfast? Oslo-based artist Ida Skivenes makes all types of food art out using a piece of toast on a kitchen plate as her canvas. The other week, she found herself stuck in front of a computer rather than freestyling in the kitchen,...
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Will S[edition] Become the App Store of Digital Art? / Hyperallergic
The stories we experience online, the people we meet, and the information we discover, offer us new ways to fall in love with the image, the autograph, and even the art object. But what of purchasing art that really only does exist on the internet or in a digital...
Uncanny Twinism: Exploring Twins in Visual Art / Hyperallergic
Twins are fascinating. Identical twins embody the visual doubling of a single human, which often calls to mind ideas of cloning. The psychic component of twins suggests that one can complete the other’s thoughts, that they feel the same thing and that, in effect, they...
A Place to Rest Your Internet-Weary Head / Hyperallergic
When I was but a wee young twin, a powerful psychic told me that I should keep a dream journal. I never forgot that moment, because it came to me in a dream during a wonderful evening of REM-induced magic. That psychic reappeared to me one day in the form of the...
Learning to Love Your Image: Fan Art Meets Contemporary Art / Hyperallergic
CHICAGO — Anyone who has ever spent more than three consecutive hours listening to their favorite band on repeat, attempted to dress up as the lead singer, or camped out overnight to get tickets has more than just a passing interest in said band. This person, a bit...
Alicia Eler, Hyperallergic Staff Writer <3
I'm super excited to announce that I've joined Hyperallergic as a Staff Writer! It's a pleasure to work alongside editors Hrag Vartanian, Jillian Steinhauer and Mostafa Heddaya at the NYC-based artblogazine. Alicia Eler, Staff Writer Alicia Eler is a writer and art...
What a Teenager’s Backpack Tells Us About Art / Hyperallergic
CHICAGO — Amanda Ross-Ho recreated a soft-sculpture replica of an anonymous teen-girl’s backpack, blowing it up to 400% of its original size. It hangs at the back of the white-walled gallery space, the focal point of her solo exhibition Cradle of Filth that juxtaposes...