In “Nightlife” Archibald Motley depicts a crowded cabaret in Chicago's Bronzeville neighborhood. The tightly interconnected figures, presented along a sharp diagonal, express the liveliness and exuberant energy of the nightclubs on Chicago’s South Side.

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Jeanne Mammen, Karneval, c.1931, German artist who captured the nightclubs, cafés, bohemians, lesbians of the Wiemar period

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Nightclubs are dead apparently. Illustration for Metropolitan Magazine http://t.co/G2w4SUnNws

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Nightclubs are dead apparently. Illustration for Metropolitan Magazine http://t.co/RQQxeeXXGe

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