Lori Waxman – Page 15

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>

Art Institute stumbles in exhibit of its art from 1945 to present

December 17, 2018 at 6:03 p.m.

A black hole greets visitors to the recently reinstalled galleries of contemporary art at the Art Institute of Chicago. The elusive American artist Lee Bontecou welded it from steel, copper...

The brilliance of Charlotte Moorman, on full view at the Block

June 11, 2018 at 5:02 a.m.

The obvious way to begin a review of "A Feast of Astonishments: Charlotte Moorman and the Avant-Garde, 1960s-1980s" would be to describe the scandalous performances for which the late musician...

Good looking: A survey of contemporary Latino art

June 9, 2018 at 1:07 a.m.

What does Latino art look like now? Anyone expecting an answer from "Present Standard," a visually dazzling survey by 25 U.S.-based Latino artists, will be sorely disappointed. It's a useful...

The thing about feelings: The radical notions of Annie Besant

December 17, 2018 at 6:20 p.m.

What does explosive anger look like? It isn't hard to picture a narrative scene that corresponds, perhaps a burly man in a traffic jam screaming while pumping his fist out...

She, He, They, Hir: Transgender art and artists at Columbia College

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

The transgender community lost an icon when David Bowie died of cancer two weeks ago, days after his 69th birthday and the release of his latest album. Bowie — whose...

Chicago art winter preview: 10 shows for a new year

December 17, 2018 at 6:32 p.m.

What to say about a lineup that ranges from monsters to secondhand books, from prison to inflatables, from clothing to nudity? There's a witticism in there, I'm sure of it,...

Chicagoan of the Year in Art: Sabina Ott

December 17, 2018 at 6:32 p.m.

Sabina Ott is building a mountain. This ought to be welcome in Chicago, a land so flat it depends on the wind for topography. In Ott's native Los Angeles, where...

The best of 2015 in Chicago visual art

June 16, 2018 at 10:00 a.m.

Taking stock at the end of the year always makes me think of wool stockings and soup. Both of these provide warmth in the cold, and a good best-of list...

Jefferson Pinder show an exhibition for Black Lives Matter movement

December 17, 2018 at 6:38 p.m.

If #BlackLivesMatter is the hashtag for this moment, then artist Jefferson Pinder's solo show at the Hyde Park Art Center is the exhibition. Nearly a million African-American men and women...

‘Freedom Principle’ at MCA takes on black art, music

December 17, 2018 at 6:41 p.m.

"The Freedom Principle: Experiments in Art and Music, 1965 to Now" is a dazzlingly ambitious and optimistic group show up for just a couple more weeks at the MCA. It...

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