Lori Waxman

I thought I knew Pop Art. It's not that hard a recipe, really: add one part consumer culture plus one part mass media plus one part fine art, shake over...

Rare is the art exhibit that asks more of the ears than the eyes. I sometimes fantasize about wearing ear plugs at the museum, the better to look without being...

The Art Institute of Chicago is having a feminist moment. Evidence of this welcome development is on view throughout the museum. It marks a sea change for an institution that...

Most artists make work that is of the time in which they live. Others, through unfathomable courage and foresight, manage to yield the art of the future, creations that can't...

The long, narrow room was dim and smoky. Strobe lights disoriented, as did the crush of bodies shifting, bumping, brushing past. A metal walkway ran overhead, upheld by heavy wood...

Memorial Day has come and gone again. As the nation watches actions unfold that might plunge the United States into yet another war, this time with Iran, the rest of...

Why do collectors collect? "Solidary & Solitary: The Joyner/Giuffrida Collection," a knockout show at the Smart Museum of Art, offers a distinctive opportunity to consider this question. The exhibition, of...

“Some Kind of Duty,” Karolina Gnatowski’s miraculously affirming solo exhibition at DePaul Art Museum, comes readymade with the perfect metaphor. On view are 27 tiny, small, medium and large tapestries...

What does blackness look like? A triumvirate of artworks currently on view in three separate Chicago museums takes on this question, if not in deliberate concert then at least in...