Lori Waxman – Page 10

Nick Cave has been singing about mortality for decades, and he's really good at it. Whether the narratives are biblical or pulpy, the victims innocents or death row convicts, the circumstances comprehensible or cruelly random, Cave's songs are on intimate terms with the infinite ways a life can be extinguished. And yet, "Skeleton Tree", his latest album with his estimable band, the Bad Seeds, is a relatively concise song cycle shadowed by death that feels different than all the rest. <a href="http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/music/kot/sc-music-nick-cave-skeleton-tree-ent-0916-20160916-column.html" target="_blank">Read the full review.</a>

The diverse, dizzying majesty of Howardena Pindell

December 17, 2018 at 4:19 p.m.

Some art exhibitions are also lessons in the history of art. "Howardena Pindell: What Remains To Be Seen," a long-overdue survey of the indomitable African-American woman's oeuvre, on view through...

Mounira Al Solh’s Art Institute show is intense, devastating and essential

December 17, 2018 at 4:20 p.m.

As President Donald Trump escalates a potential trade war with China and orders the National Guard to police the border with Mexico, the Art Institute offers a valuable lesson in...

Faheem Majeed has made magic in Glen Ellyn

December 17, 2018 at 4:23 p.m.

It takes some serious powers of transubstantiation to turn wood flakes and Kool-Aid into a wall of luminous colored glass, but Faheem Majeed has done it, or something like it,...

The relevant, unpleasant, overwhelming magic of Nina Chanel Abney

December 17, 2018 at 4:26 p.m.

The paintings are crying in “Royal Flush,” a survey of artwork by Nina Chanel Abney up through midspring at the Cultural Center. They’re angry and hurting and knowing, and they...

Art that says home, without any coziness, in Elmhurst

December 17, 2018 at 4:28 p.m.

Blankets, curtains, cups, cuddling, companions, dish towels, egg cartons, framed pictures — if you have a home, it likely contains most of these elements at least some of the time,...

‘Traversing the Past’ an uneven but powerful look at history

December 17, 2018 at 4:30 p.m.

The personal is the political, goes the familiar feminist slogan of the 1970s, but the Museum of Contemporary Photography’s current exhibition suggests a twist that might go something like this:...

Revolution, one weird day at a time

December 17, 2018 at 4:32 p.m.

What is it about the Russian Revolution that keeps pulling us back to October 1917? Not one but two major Chicago museums marked the centenary of the world’s most idealistic...

The entrance to the "Protest Banner Lending Library" at the Alphawood Gallery in Chicago seen on Thursday, Oct. 5, 2017. (Terrence Antonio James/baiduhai)

The year in visual art was a dizzying reflection of today

December 17, 2018 at 6:23 p.m.

The year began with an exhibition that was, if not the most auspicious, then at least the most apocalyptically pretty, Basim Magdy’s solo show at the Museum of Contemporary Art....

Photo show takes a broad, accessible view of queerness

December 17, 2018 at 6:17 p.m.

Queerness has never been so omnipresent. That’s not exactly the thesis of “Disruptive Perspectives” at the Museum of Contemporary Photography, but it’s at least the cultural context for the exhibition’s...

"A Day at the Beach, Lutjens Padmanabhan, Architekten (Zurich, Switzerland)," an installation part of the "Horizontal City" exhibit at the Chicago Architecture Biennial in the Chicago Cultural Center.

Chicago’s cultural moment

December 17, 2018 at 4:39 p.m.

Chicago is having a moment this fall. Or rather, a consortium of all the big players on the city’s cultural scene — from the mayor’s office and the Department of...

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