Many Mansions by Kerry James Marshall Introduction Completed in 1994, Kerry James Marshall’s Many Mansions captures Chicago’s Stateway Gardens, a once‑celebrated public‑housing complex that fell victim to systemic neglect. At first glance, the canvas reads like a sun‑dappled community postcard: blooming flower beds, decorative ornaments and cheerful blue birds fill the foreground, giving off an air of hope and warmth. Yet this inviting facade quickly clashes with the bleak, r

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