A Moving Encounter With the Art of Bernard Williams

A Moving Encounter With the Art of Bernard Williams

CHICAGO — Nearly every summer in Chicago and its surrounding suburbs, some genuinely dumb public art is trotted out for the entertainment of visitors and residents alike. Sometimes it’s life-size fiberglass cows, other times giant butterflies. The most dreadful ones are readymade kits of vibrant junk that cities can mail-order to jazz up their shopping streets and empty lots. Occasionally we get some brilliant stuff like Franz West’s weird rainb…