Lori Waxman

Legendary performance artist Chris Burden died two weeks ago from melanoma. The man who in the 1970s evolved body art by having his own body shot with a handgun, nailed...

The dapper man with the finely twirled moustache and the tapered fingers holds his paintbrush with the same insistent poise with which he holds all gazes that turn in his...

There once was a time when artists, some artists at least, believed in television. Not in an ironic way, as successful satirists like Stephen Colbert or the makers of "The...

The forested peaks and crumbly cliffs of the landscape have long been recognized as an appropriate theme for art. So have death and dying. The matter out of which that...

Harun Farocki's "Eye/Machine III" strings together footage made primarily by and for machines. Black-and-white landscapes viewed from above by missile scanners so they can hit their targets, a hallway surveyed...

A hastily made sign on the door of the Glass Curtain Gallery reads: "Children must be accompanied by an adult." This seems like a reasonable rule for a space showing...

We all have our obsessions. Mine are private. James Ensor, the masterfully idiosyncratic turn-of-the-century Belgian artist, has his on very public display in the Art Institute of Chicago's winter blockbuster...

I love the snow, but maybe you don't. Maybe you'd rather be indoors looking at art in rooms with sophisticated humidity and temperature control than out enjoying the formal and...