21c Museum Hotel Chicago Free Admission Thursday

Free Admission Thursday from 24 hours a day at 21C Museum Hotel Chicago - see INFO below. Social media, influencers, and likes have expanded the definition of celebrity, providing a platform for individuals to secure wide-reaching recognition, digital or otherwise. To create her Star Portraits series, photographer Laurel Nakadate used Facebook to invite participants with whom she had varying degrees of connection. Although the artist requested that her subjects meet her alone, often at night, in a secluded area, she received hundreds of responses, reflecting the pervasive desire to be captured on camera, resulting in a fleeting moment of fame for the willing subject. Frances Goodmans Queen, from the series, Transmogrified, was made in 2021, and reflects the artists experience of heightened isolation and increased engagement with social media: Unable to work with other people in a live environment, I turned to the social media platforms available to me, Goodman recalls. The extreme makeupmakeover trend already popular even before the lockdown rose to new heights during it because people were isolated at home with a lot of time on their hands. What appeared to start as a very niche and exclusive drag subculture moved into the mainstream. More Info below.