Kwame Brathwaite captured the music, fashion, and styles of a bygone era, in his new show, Things Well Worth Waiting For. | ✍️ Vasia Rigou
, about 1965, printed 2018. The Art Institute of Chicago, promised gift of Dr. John E. Ellis.“Things Well Worth Waiting For” is a small-scale, deeply comprehensive exhibition that transports you to a different time where women wore flamboyant dresses, men drove classic cars, segregation prevailed, and the power of soul music was palpable. Photojournalist and activist Kwame Brathwaite was there, documenting it all—in words and in photographs.
Occupying two galleries at the Art Institute of Chicago, the exhibition provides insight into over 70 years of Brathwaite’s work, through photographs, magazines, albums, and color slides from the 1960s to the 1980s, many of which are on view for the first time in decades.
Passionate about music, Brathwaite traveled far and wide to review performances for publications—from the UK’s. More than the energy of the headliners, he captured the social and cultural dynamics of his time. Importantly, he showed Black culture at its essence. Immersed in the inner-workings of the entertainment industry , he never shied away from documenting the everyday.
, “Things Well Worth Waiting For” encapsulates the 1970s as a period of risk and uncertainty, but also opportunity and a powerful beacon for change.Through 7/24: Mon 11 AM-5 PM, Thu 11 AM-8 PM, Fri-Sun 11 AM-5 PM, Art Institute of Chicago, 111 S. Michigan,adults $25 , seniors 65+, students, and teens 14-17 $19 , children under 14 freeI was a reporter at the St. Petersburg Times in 1980, when St. Pete got the idea of turning itself into Salvador Dalíwood.
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