Lori Waxman

"Taking Shape: Abstraction from the Arab World, 1950s-1980s" at the Block Museum offers so much more than what its subtitle describes. Anyone who loves, studies or makes nonrepresentational paintings ought...

Despite the cooler days and slightly chillier nights, the students back in school, plus a few changing leaves here and there, fall technically begins Sept. 22. The fall exhibitions season...

Spend enough time in the Chicago art world and you've probably noticed Dutes Miller and Stan Shellabarger. They cut an oddly repetitive figure in a population known for exhaustive individualism:...

Summer is not the traditional high season for art viewing unless you have the means to travel to Venice, Italy or Kassel, Germany. Or Cleveland for the Front Triennial —...

Mamdouh poses alone in a refuse-filled square of his Egyptian hometown; Murat in a cluster of mint-green containers that serve as a refugee housing complex in Germany; Rustam in the...

"Do you remember when teleportation replaced air travel," asks the fabulous crocodile who serves as an occasional guide to the CAPS, an island in the middle of the ocean of...

Some exhibitions are really just about the art — the bold painting, the clever sculpture, the mind-bending installation — and you needn't really think too much about the artist who...

Is there an artist better suited than Robert Colescott to test the limits of our current moment, when calls for social justice have led to demands for cultural censorship and...