Max Sansing’s ‘Culture is Power’ mural is reborn on the South Side

“Culture is Power,” a mural at 79th Street and East End Avenue that Max Sansing painted in 2018 and which he recently restored. (Robert Herguth / Sun-Times)

One of the figurative bright spots of 79th Street is literally bright once more.

Max Sansing’s “Culture is Power” mural across from the Avalon Regal Theater recently was restored and, in a larger sense, reimagined as Sansing fixed years of chipping and fading that resulted largely from Chicago’s weather.