In Chicago in the early 1970s, we had our own third and
best - known generation of
alternative spaces (each city can claim its own artist - run history, probably with a fair share of boosterism thrown in), such
as ARC, Artemisia (both were feminist galleries formed from West - East Bag, a nationwide network of women artists), and N.A.M.E., with the much - heralded Randolph Street Gallery opening in 1979.7 This is not to mention still - running artist - driven efforts such
as the Hyde
Park Art Center, founded in 1948, and the South Side Community Art Center, the only surviving Federal Arts Center from the WPA era and the oldest African American art center in the country, famously dedicated by Eleanor Roosevelt on opening day in 1940.
The Senate report found the
Park Foundation had showered hundreds of thousands of dollars on Howarth's research,
as well as many of the «
alternative media» that hyped his claims.