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Subvert Valentine’s Day: remake the celebration of love in your own image /...
image via the Guardian Valentine’s Day is an awkward, sensitive holiday whether or not you have a significant other and, perhaps especially, if you are single. To be “without love” on a day designed to...
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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!...
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Wall To Wall | Video Interview with LA Artist Vanessa Prager / CRAVE
When L.A. artist Vanessa Prager paints, she paints hard. She doesn’t make paintings so much as she makes gloopy, blobby, swirling sculptural works out of paint, indulging in extreme messy excess....
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Lesbian Pussy Tales – Queen Mobs Teahouse
In a quest for sex, Alicia encounters two intense kitties I thought I was someone who loved cats. As a lifelong animal lover, I had a cat growing up — Penny was her name. Swiping around on Tinder just...
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Supercharged Sex and Corporate Control in a Queer Erotic Novel / Hyperallergic
In Lex Brown’s book My Wet Hot Drone Summer, #4 in the Badlands Unlimited New Lovers series (Hyperallergic previously reviewed #1), the artist/writer looks at a world not unlike our own, where sex,...
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A Filmmaker Probes the Magic and Madness of Female Adolescence / Hyperallergic
Jennifer Reeder, film still from “A Million Miles Away” LOS ANGELES — As a woman who was once a teenage girl, I have a certain fondness for any filmic or visual art that harkens back to that time of...
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Review | Yuval Pudik: KANADA / CRAVE
Israeli-born, L.A.-based artist Yuval Pudik decided to only use vintage gay porn images in his solo exhibition KANADA at Cash Machine in Atwater Village, a small storefront artist-run gallery space....
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How comedian Mo Welch channeled depression into a morbidly funny Instagram...
Comedian Mo Welch and her Instagram character Blair are very different, but she admits they’re pretty tight. Welch writes down the random depressing thoughts that cross her mind, and hands them over...
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Review | Amy Bessone: A Century of Women at GAVLAK / CRAVE
Installation of Amy Bessone at GAVLAK Gallery Ah, feminism. I first fell for you in college and we’ve been together ever since. You were on my mind when I strolled into Amy Bessone’s show, In the...
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Joe Cool / The New Inquiry
TODAY’S consumerism is riddled with elaborate and often meaningless choices: Which brand of pasta should you buy? Would that be best with Ragu, Amy’s Organic, or Muir Glen marinara sauce? Should that...
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Review | Amy Yao: Bay Of Smokes / CRAVE
In Bay Of Smokes, an exhibition showing at Various Small Fires in Los Angeles, artist Amy Yao’s visual landscape of semiotics and symbols plays with concepts of environmental contamination. To...
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Comedian Melissa Villaseñor is perfecting her impressions on Vine / DailyDot...
On Valentine’s Day, comedian Melissa Villaseñor welcomed a very special guest to her Vine account: Kristen Wiig, who let us know exactly what she’d be doing that day. Those who laughed could definitely...
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Twenty Years Later, Returning to a Pioneering Black Lesbian Film / Hyperallergic
Guinevere Turner as Diana, Cheryl Dunye as Cheryl (© Dancing Girl Productions) It’s the 1990s when a young, ambitious filmmaker goes on the hunt for “the Watermelon Woman,” a black actress who played...
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The art world meets Kate Berlant’s brain in new Netflix special / DailyDot...
When Kate Berlant graced the stage of performance/video artist Dynasty Handbag’s new monthly show Weirdo Night at El Cid late last month, she admitted that she was having some problems leaving the...
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Review | Aaron Fowler: Blessings on Blessings / CRAVE
New York-based artist Aaron Fowler is something of a hero. His 11 massive, assemblage paintings are part of Blessings On Blessings, his first solo exhibition in Los Angeles at Diane Rosenstein Gallery...
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Exhibit | Tappan Collective: Subtle Acts Create a Sense of Place / CRAVE
Installation by Lani Trock Artwork that is focused specifically on the body or on new environments is often times more beautiful and aesthetically compelling than its evil twin – the conceptual, heady,...
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Infinite Return: Jenny Yurshansky Traces Her Soviet Jewish Roots / KCET Artbound
For years, Los Angeles artist Jenny Yurshansky has asked her mom the same question: When will they go back to Moldova? The small country, wedged between Ukraine and Romania, is part of her family’s...
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Instagram’s ‘Crazy Jewish Mom’ explains how she drives her daughter nuts /...
At some point, every close knit mother-daughter relationship takes a turn toward Crazytown. Kate Siegel and her mother Kim Friedman, however, have never left the place. It goes a little something like...
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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,...
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Exhibit | Why Not Outsource All Your Art Ideas to China? / CRAVE
Outsource Show, Installation View. Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you’ve caught a number of articles about the business relationship between the U.S. and China. Curator Alexander Tarrant...
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