What It’s Like to Be Tumblr Famous
From Vice, August 13, 2013 by Johanna King Slutzky: "The answer may lie in a phenomenon that's of particular interest to me, which culture critic Kate Durbin termed “the teen girl Tumblr aesthetic,” a term which Durbin and coauthor Alicia Eler coined in an essay...
“How to Win at Tinder?”
From Le Monde (France), February 13, 2016 by Hubert Guillaud: "Comment gagner à Tinder ?, s’interrogeaient cet été dans un épatant billetpour le New Inquiry, Alicia Eler (@aliciaeler) et Eve Peyser (@evepeyser). Pour les deux jeunes femmes, Tinder, la célèbre...
The Best Things We Read in 2015 – GAWKER
From Gawker, December 30th, 2015 by Gawker Staff: “How to Win Tinder” by Alicia Eler and Eve Peyser at The New Inquiry What, exactly, is Tinder? In their essay about the dominant mobile dating app, Alicia Eler and Eve Peyser explore the values, pitfalls, and invisible...
Now Netflix Is All Thumbs
From The New York Times, March 31, 2017 by Tom Vanderbilt: "The Netflix move seems another example of what Alicia Eler and Eve Peyser, in an essay in The New Inquiry, call “the tinderization of feeling.” The dating app Tinder, they argue, “is a metaphor for speeding...
The Hidden Vulnerabilities of @SoSadToday
From The New Yorker, March 24, 2016, by Haley Mlotek: "The year before, the artists Alicia Eler and Kate Durbin had made a similar argument in identifying the “Teen-Girl Tumblr Aesthetic,” and Lindsay Zoladz, writing for Pitchfork, identified Lana del Rey as a kind of...
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“Obama Pens Apology to an Art Historian” for Hyperallergic Featured on The Rachel Maddow Show + Hardball with Chris Matthews [TV]
The news I broke for Hyperallergic ended up on MSNBC's Rachel Maddow show and NBC's Hardball with Chris Matthews. MADDOW: http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/watch/gop-ties-us-hands-on-ukraine-with-odd-demands-205609539679...
Britney Spears’ Greatest Cultural Contribution Is Her Instagram Account
From The Huffington Post, March 20, 2018, by Priscilla Frank: And I mean that with all the respect in the world ????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????. By Priscilla Frank ILLUSTRATION: DAMON DAHLEN/HUFFPOST PHOTOS:...
Best of 2016: Our Top 10 Los Angeles Art Shows / Hyperallergic
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...
Conversation Art Podcast Ep.#148 with Alicia Eler
Highland Park-based art and culture writer Alicia Eler talks about: Her home in Highland Park, where’s she a tenant of the owners of the artist-run Adjunct Positions, and so never far from an opening and artists, and where she’s become a kind of permanent...
Hyperallergic, at Age 9, Rivals the Arts Journalism of Legacy Media
From Nieman Reports, by Mary-Louise Schumacher: The online outlet was ranked highly in a survey of 300 arts journalists Veken Gueyikian had a problem. It was 2009, and he was in love with an unhappy arts writer. His husband, art critic Hrag Vartanian, had grown weary...
Autostraddle includes “How to Win Tinder” on Best of 2015 Longreads!
Wow! Autostraddle named me & Eve Peyser's long-form essay “How to Win Tinder” as 215 of the Best Longreads of 2015 — All Written by Women. We are in the "Essays & Opinions" section <3...
Podcast Interview – Products of the Mind
So psyched to be featured on David Lizerbram's iTunes podcast, Products of the Mind! Today on Products of the Mind: Author and Tinder Expert Alicia Eler What is "The Tinderization of Feeling?" Author, artist, and comedian Alicia Eler writes about Tinder and other...
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Valentine’s Day Tinderization on NEWSTALK 1010 (Toronto) [PRESS]
Happy Valentine’s Day! Today me and Eve Peyser talked about love, #Tinderization and the nature of dating app connectivity with Toronto radio dude Mark Towhey for NEWSTALK 1010. Here’s the segment! Starts at 1 hour 2 minutes and runs about 10...
That Capitalist Vision of Thomas Kinkade
PAINTING ON PUZZLES, greeting cards, and even La-Z-Boys, Thomas Kinkade may be the most ubiquitous artist in America—and possibly the most commercially successful—yet he was largely ignored by the art world during his lifetime. Kinkade died in 2012, but even in death...
15 hilarious women you need to follow on Twitter / The Daily Dot
Big thank you to Eve Peyser for including me in her article about funny ladies on Twitter for The Daily Dot! I am in good company with ladies like Gabby Bess, Aria Dean, Jena Friedman, and some totally famous TV writers. Lol? Anyway let's have a Judy Chicago dinner...
#TimesUp for the myth of the male ‘genius’
From the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, May 18, 2018, by Mary-Louise Schumacher: The life of Mary Nohl, the late Fox Point artist, would make a fine biopic. JOHN MICHAEL KOHLER ARTS CENTER Do we really need to put to rest the myth of the artist as a lone, male genius in...
Sweet blog post/ review of Illuminati Girl Gang 4
I recently discovered this awesome blog post/review of Illuminati Girl Gang 4. Check out the kind words from Katie Walck (@KatieWalck) on her blog THE LE SIGH: "There's also a really amazing piece by Alicia Eler called 'Besties,' a story of the emotional intensity...
PANEL: Art Humor Discussion at Eastside International LA / 4.25.15
Super psyched to be on a panel TONITE about art and humor at @eastsideinternational with @ericyahnker, hosted by the one & only @mollyjosheart !! 6PM! 602 Moulton Ave, Los Angeles, 90031. 6:15- 7pm Art Panel: As Gong Show is getting ready to end, we are going to...
LECTURE: Warholian Instahumor at Portland State University / 4.23.15
Hey everyone! I'm psyched to present my newest lecture, Warholian Instahumor, examining the relationship between Instagram, Warhol's pop art and contemporary Jewish humor. Thursday, April 23 7PM Portland State University's Shattuck Hall Annex (1914 Park Ave at SW Hall...
Okin ’19: Making good choices in an age of Tinder swipes
From Brown Daily Herald, February 26, 2018, by Rebecca Okin: Perhaps the only phenomenon that rivals the prevalence of dating apps on campus is the amount of energy we spend discussing them. A familiar scenario: At Ratty dinner, the “ping” of a new match breaches...