Lori Waxman

Everything Jessica Stockholder touches turns to art. Over the past three decades this has included worn-out couches, an urban intersection, refrigerator doors, a scissors lift, fresh oranges and lemons, a...

Barbara DeGenevieve is watching me watch her. Her frank eyes, highlighted by perpetually raised brows, follow me as I move about Iceberg Projects, a jewel-box gallery housed in a brick...

This fall, feminist perspectives, generally, and women artists, particularly, take over the Chicago arts scene. It wasn't planned by the city, a museum conglomerate or even one of the local...

Artist competitions are not usually at the top of discerning museumgoers' must-see lists, but perhaps they should be. The best of them pack more surprises than your average group exhibition,...

At the museum a few weeks ago, an elderly woman in a crisp white shirt and designer eyeglasses caught my eye. She wielded a cane and had a strait-laced young...