• July 17, 2018, 12–1 p.m.

Gallery Talk: Seeing/Being Chicago

Art Institute of Chicago

111 South Michigan Avenue, Chicago, Illinois 60603

Billy Abernathy. Mother’s Day from Born Hip, 1962. The Art Institute of Chicago, Gift of the Illinois Arts Council. 

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Join museum educator Sam Anderson-Ramos on a looking tour through Never a Lovely So Real: Photography and Film in Chicago, 1950–1980, a photography exhibition encompassing the worlds of local music, gang life, and more. View and discuss images of Chicago’s communal past, and contemplate the power of the voyeuristic eye.

This event is free with museum admission.

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