Responding to a radical era // Terra's `Of Time and City' traces the American reply to the call of avant-garde

Chicago Sun-Times | February 16, 1992| | Copyright

`Of Time and the City: American Modernism from the Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery' Through March 22. Hours: Tues., noon-8 p.m.; Wed.-Sat., 10 a.m.-5 p.m.; Sun., noon-5 p.m. Terra Museum of American Art, 666 N. Michigan

$4, general admission; $2.50, seniors; $1, students (312) 664-3939

Modern art and the American public were formally introduced in New York at the now infamous Armory Show of 1913. The meeting, which, for the first time, brought many of Europe's leading avant-garde artists to the attention of a broad and largely unsuspecting audience, had all the subtlety of a head-on ...

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