Installation view of Every Square Needs a Circle at Richard Gray Gallery (all photos by the author for Hyperallergic) CHICAGO — “It’s a Chicago show,” Theaster Gates tells me as he walked me through ...

Theaster Gates has work in the collection of the Brooklyn Museum, the Studio Museum in Harlem, and the Whitney Museum of American Art, but he has not had a solo show in New York until now. His current ...

Sourced from the pages of Ebony and Jet, Gates’ new work transforms images of Black women into a lasting public tribute. When the nearly 20-acre cultural and civic campus opens on Chicago’s South Side ...

When the Obama Presidential Center opens on Chicago’s South Side in the spring, a series of large-scale artworks and installations by some of America’s most important living artists will help set the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Working out of an old airplane parts factory, the internationally-acclaimed artist Theaster Gates has refused to fit inside a box ...

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Guided by the forms of solidarity found within Black communities, American artist Theaster Gates (born 1973) creates visionary installations that transform public spaces into places of artistic and ...

Named one of the hundred most important people in the art world by ArtReview and “Innovator of the Year” by the Wall Street Journal, Theaster Gates is a multimedia artist, activist, social engineer, ...

The Tom Skinner Ensemble was rehearsing Wednesday ahead of a performance later this week at Thalia Hall. They were practicing in the auditorium of Land School, the latest achievement from ...

Few creative and pop culture figures from the last 70 years are more widely recognized than Yoko Ono, the 92-year-old peace activist and former collaborator with such famed musicians as John Cage, ...

Theaster Gates isn’t trying to sell you anything. And that’s why his work, a labor performance called Soul Manufacturing Corporation, at Locust Projects in Little Haiti is worth so much money. The ...