Lori Waxman

1 week ago | chicagoreader.com | Lori Waxman

Look too quickly at “Icons: An Exhibition About the Right to Exist” and you might think you are simply seeing blown-up posters of James Dean in Rebel Without a Cause, or that famous painting of Queen Elizabeth I, or an advertisement for Barbie dolls. But the models in this show have Down syndrome. The effect shifts the earth a few inches. “Icons: An Exhibition About the Right to Exist”Through 7/6: Tue–Fri 10 AM–4 PM, Sat–Sun 11 AM–4 PM, Swedish American Museum, 5211 N.

1 week ago | chicagotribune.com | Lori Waxman

For those who can’t make it to Japan this summer, there is always Glen Ellyn. “Hokusai & Ukiyo-e: The Floating World,” a multimedia extravaganza inspired by the art of 18th- and 19th-century Japan, is on view through September at the Cleve Carney Museum, on the campus of the College of DuPage. At its core are 70 exquisite examples of woodblock prints, painted scrolls and lacquerware from the Edo Period.

2 weeks ago | chicagoreader.com | Lori Waxman

In the project 60 wrd/min art critic, writer Lori Waxman explores how art writing can serve an expanded field of artists—including those incarcerated, trying to gain visas, working to establish themselves professionally, or just wanting feedback for a secret hobby. For this iteration, Waxman reviewed a series by School of the Art Institute graduate Divyangi Shukla. Divyangi ShuklaCaring for others can happen through objects.

2 weeks ago | hyperallergic.com | Lori Waxman

CHICAGO — Two of the most delightful solo shows up in Chicago right now concern human bodies. Both are playful and witty, full of bright color and unexpected shapes. One gleefully declares itself corporeal: Huguette Caland’s Bribes de corps, a series of whimsical and abstracted body parts painted in the 1970s, on view at the Arts Club. The other makes no such claims.

3 weeks ago | chicagotribune.com | Lori Waxman

What feels especially timely right now, as the Trump administration sues sanctuary cities, bans transsexual people from serving in the military, all but shutters American borders to migrants, destroys diversity programming at every level and decimates federal support for libraries and the arts? These exhibitions do:“Raqs Media Collective: Cavalcade”: What might it mean to live in solidarity with animals, ghosts, mythic beings, natural elements, even machines?