Gerald Williams’s “Messages” (1970) is on view in “The Time Is Now! Art Worlds of Chicago’s South Side, 1960-1980,” at the Smart Museum of Art in Chicago. Credit Smart Museum of Art, The University of Chicago.
The exhibition, “The Time Is Now! Art Worlds of Chicago’s South Side 1960-1980,” which opened in September and runs through Dec. 30, is part corrective, part history lesson, part reintroduction.
The artist Gerald Williams in his studio in Chicago. His work wasn’t shown at the big Chicago galleries in the 1970s, but now that is changing. Credit Danielle Scruggs for The New York Times.
(Tariro Mzezewa, “50 Years Later, Chicago Artists Are Getting Their Due,” NYTimes, 11-8-18)
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And part social justice.