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Lori Waxman

Lori Waxman has been the Chicago Tribune’s primary art critic since 2009. She teaches art history at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and performs occasionally as the “60 wrd/min art critic,” including at dOCUMENTA (13). She is the recipient of a Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant and a 2018 Rabkin Prize. Her book, Keep Walking Intently (Sternberg Press), offers a history of walking as an art form.

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Chicago’s Drawing Biennial Has Something for Everyone

Avatar photo by Lori Waxman January 23, 2023January 24, 2023

Each artist has one to three examples, in such a broad range of styles that if you can’t find something of interest here, that’s probably on you.

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Historical Revisionism Gets Mischievous in Chicago

Avatar photo by Lori Waxman January 16, 2023January 17, 2023

Two solo shows in Chicago are must-sees for anyone who cares about feminism and how it intersects with modernist architecture, urban planning, and design.

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Celebrating “Weird” Art in Chicago

Avatar photo by Lori Waxman December 5, 2022December 6, 2022

Rocks, ducks, and a self-organized survey of Gingham are some of the things to see right now in four Chicago art galleries.

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A Difficult but Necessary Exhibition About Roadkill 

Avatar photo by Lori Waxman October 19, 2022October 19, 2022

Jeanne Dunning’s works attest to widespread human disregard for animal life, and their finished form insists on both their deadness and how it happened.

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Alberto Aguilar Becomes the National Museum of Mexican Art

Avatar photo by Lori Waxman September 18, 2022September 19, 2022

What’s an artifact, what’s an artwork, what’s a prop, what’s decoration, what’s disposable — these are questions that Aguilar has taken up with great enthusiasm.

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If They Won’t Come to the Museum, Then the Museum Must Go to Them

Avatar photo by Lori Waxman August 7, 2022August 10, 2022

With A Lion for Every House at the Art Institute of Chicago, Floating Museum riffs wildly on the art rental programs of some museums.

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A Film Asks: What Is Home? 

Avatar photo by Lori Waxman June 19, 2022June 17, 2022

In Nadav Assor and Tirtza Even’s film Chronicle of a Fall, on immigrant cultural workers in the US, there is no singular, stable view of anything.

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The Afterlives of Art Scraps

Avatar photo by Lori Waxman May 11, 2022May 12, 2022

Artists Selina Trepp, Leslie Baum, and Diane Christiansen repurpose their own and others’ creations into new artworks.

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Four Chicago Galleries Explore the Art of Arranging

Avatar photo by Lori Waxman April 6, 2022April 7, 2022

An ingenious arrangement can engender awareness of spatial relationships, provide a much-needed sense of order, or offer purely aesthetic mysteries.

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