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Dala Nasser Builds a Grief Temple in Chicago
Her new exhibition at the Renaissance Society bears witness to infrastructural failure, colonial theft, and disregarded histories.
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.”
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Three Shows Celebrate Chicago’s Latine Art Heritage
What better way to celebrate the centennial of Chicago artist and community organizer Carlos Cortéz than with a trio of exhibitions dedicated to the intersections between Latine printmaking and politics?
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Duane Linklater’s Messy Notions of Identity
The Native artist’s simultaneity of diverse references obliterates tidy notions of identity, while being transparently true to his own biography, aesthetics, and heritage.
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A Piece of Puerto Rico in Chicago
Edra Soto's art brings with it the fabulous look and feel of tropical architectural solutions but not always the pain and difficulty of diasporic life.
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Art by Survivors of America’s Wars
The 2023 Veteran Art Triennial & Summit proves that the tools of the colonizer, the occupier, and the oppressor can be used to resist and persist.
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Art for the End of Time
There are no common moves among artists in The Chicago Cli-Fi Library, except environmental grief as expressed through art-making.
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Keep an Eye Out for These Emerging Chicago Artists
Ground Floor at the Hyde Park Art Center is a sensitively curated selection of works by exceptionally promising young artists.
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Chicago’s Drawing Biennial Has Something for Everyone
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
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
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
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
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.