Lori Waxman – Page 13

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>

‘Embodiment Abstracted’ explores influence of dance artist Yvonne Rainer

June 6, 2018 at 4:51 a.m.

Twelve people dressed in mismatched street clothes stand in a row at the edge of a stage. A tremendous orchestral requiem crescendos around them, but they remain unmoving, standing at...

Last chance to see 3 noteworthy Chicago art shows

December 17, 2018 at 5:21 p.m.

It's been 2017 for 12 days already, but since most museums haven't opened their new exhibitions yet, head to Hyde Park, where a handful of worthy shows that went up...

Winter preview: 10 art shows not to miss

December 17, 2018 at 5:23 p.m.

All of these shows were planned long ago, without any special knowledge of who would be inaugurated as president of the United States in just a few weeks. Nevertheless some...

Kerry James Marshall has had quite a year

December 17, 2018 at 5:24 p.m.

"Simply put, it's the fulfillment of lifelong ambition." That's how Kerry James Marshall described 2016 to me when we spoke a few weeks ago. It's been a year in which...

Looking back on the best art of 2016 as a psychic salve

December 17, 2018 at 5:25 p.m.

What to say about a year that ended with a grotesque political, environmental and ethical disaster doomed to last four years and then some? Remember that a lot else happened...

Artist photographed in Mao suit proved to be a cultural standout

December 17, 2018 at 5:26 p.m.

What do you do when you don't fit in? One approach is to assimilate, to take on the dress and behavior of the majority in an attempt to blend in....

Inflatable art airs range of perspectives

December 17, 2018 at 5:27 p.m.

"Blow Up: Inflatable Contemporary Art," which closes this weekend at the Elmhurst Art Museum, is not about current events. Despite the difficulty of writing about anything disconnected from the political...

Where best to experience art? At home or in the museum?

December 17, 2018 at 5:29 p.m.

Where best to experience art? At home, from the comfort of your couch, or in the museum, walking around quiet, white-walled galleries? The answer may seem obvious, but "On Space...

Life support: Christa Donner’s speculative new world

December 17, 2018 at 5:31 p.m.

My hands-down favorite drawing in "Our New System," a solo show by Christa Donner at Gallery 400, depicts a cross-legged woman, uncontained by the page, her brunette head and pale...

What would a Soviet propagandist have done with petcoke?

June 12, 2018 at 11:20 a.m.

Aleksandr Zhitomirsky, one of the chief political artists of the former Soviet Union and a master of photomontage, turned Lady Liberty into a gallows from which a black man could...

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