Lori Waxman

An unusual number of firsts are taking place in Chicago museums this summer, from older artists getting their due to emergent talents making their local debuts.

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Top 10 for art in Chicago: Georgia O’Keeffe to Art on the Mart in a 2024 summer of firsts

May 28, 2024 at 5:30 a.m.

An unusual number of firsts are taking place in Chicago museums this summer, from older artists getting their due to emergent talents making their local debuts.

“Meiji Modern: Fifty Years of New Japan” is a building-wide exhibition and much of it shows a fusion of old and new, traditional and modern, Japanese and foreign.

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Review: When Japan became modern: Meiji-era art and artifacts are now at Smart Museum

May 7, 2024 at 5:30 a.m.

“Meiji Modern: Fifty Years of New Japan” is a building-wide exhibition and much of it shows a fusion of old and new, traditional and modern, Japanese and foreign.

La moda fabulosa se abre paso en “Native America: In Translation”, una exposición colectiva reflexiva y de amplio alcance de nueve artistas indígenas en el Museo de Fotografía Contemporánea (Museum of Contemporary Photography).

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Reseña: Artistas indígenas se hacen cargo de la cámara en el MoCP

April 15, 2024 at 3:36 p.m.

La moda fabulosa se abre paso en “Native America: In Translation”, una exposición colectiva reflexiva y de amplio alcance de nueve artistas indígenas en el Museo de Fotografía Contemporánea (Museum...

Fabulous fashion spreads open this new show at the Museum of Contemporary Photography. Look carefully, though, and the glossy veneer cracks.

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Review: Indigenous artists take charge of the camera at MoCP

April 2, 2024 at 5:00 a.m.

Fabulous fashion spreads open this new show at the Museum of Contemporary Photography. Look carefully, though, and the glossy veneer cracks.

First, a confession: As a Canadian Jew of Eastern European ancestry, I have rarely felt the urge to look at, never mind write about, Christian imagery of any sort. I don’t even really like to enter churches.

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Review: With ‘Contemporary Ex-Votos’ an exhibition about devotion, UIC galleries become its churches

February 22, 2024 at 5:15 a.m.

First, a confession: As a Canadian Jew of Eastern European ancestry, I have rarely felt the urge to look at, never mind write about, Christian imagery of any sort. I...

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Review: So many lumps of clay: Exhibitions by Ruth Duckworth and contemporary Japanese women artists

January 18, 2024 at 11:45 a.m.

Lovers of sculpture who prefer clay to other materials have much to celebrate this month in Chicago, with a not-to-be-missed pair of shows at the Smart Museum of Art and...

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Art in winter 2024: Plenty of new exhibits in the new year, from speculative futures to documentary pasts

January 4, 2024 at 11:00 a.m.

From speculative futures to documentary pasts, obsessive sculpture to coolly meditative spaces, historical Japanese design to contemporary Latinx devotional painting — there's something for everyone at Chicago's galleries and museums...

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Review: In ‘Faith Ringgold: American People’ at the MCA, an African American artist’s decades of work get their due

December 20, 2023 at 11:00 a.m.

Faith Ringgold, the 93-year-old doyenne of African American art, a trailblazing master who foreshadowed the recent rise of art activism and Black figuration, is having her first solo museum show...

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Chicago Architecture Biennial returns with ‘This is a Rehearsal’ and the Cultural Center shines

November 28, 2023 at 11:30 a.m.

Architecture, in Chicago as much as anywhere, is big, heavy and permanent. Think steel skyscrapers, brick six-flats, and their infrastructural equivalents of asphalt parking lots and concrete highway overpasses. Yet...

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When art is not the destination, but on the way: O’Hare debuts $3.5 million public art commission

November 2, 2023 at 10:45 a.m.

You can't easily visit one of the most sensational art exhibitions currently on view in Chicago. Tickets are not for sale, not even at the elevated prices that have become...

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