Lori Waxman has been the Chicago Tribune’s primary art critic since 2009 and a monthly columnist for Hyperallergic since 2022. She teaches at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and has a Ph.D. in art history from the Institute of Fine Arts, New York. In her "60 wrd/min art critic" performance, Waxman writes art reviews in public and on demand, for any artist who wants one; the project has been exhibited in dOCUMENTA (13), published as an artist book by Onestar Press, and received an Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant to fund a tour across the U.S. Her other books include Girls! Girls! Girls! in Contemporary Art (Intellect, 2011) and Keep Walking Intently (Sternberg Press, 2017), a history of walking as an art form. She is originally from Montreal, Canada, and lives in Chicago with her artist husband and their two children.

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