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 ...

Gates, furthest back, with fellow Black Monks members (vocalist Yaw Agyeman and Michael Drayton at the Hammond B3 organ) activating A Heavenly Chord. Theaster Gates: Young Lords and Their Traces,2022.

Theaster Gates, “Tarred vessel” (2015), cotton, metal, glazed clay, plastic, and tar (all images © Theaster Gates, all photos by Ben Westoby and © White Cube ...

Paul Farber, Elizabeth Alexander, Theaster Gates, Jason Shupbach (Shira Yudkoff Photography) “Not all monuments have to be good,” offered Gates when prompted by Schupbach to expand on his process for ...

The Smart Museum at the University of Chicago has just unveiled plans for a major mid-career survey of the work of one of the city’s most famous artists, Theaster Gates. Under the working title “Unto ...

For the first time ever, a non-architect has designed the Serpentine Pavilion, which opened to visitors in London earlier this month. Inspired by a range of architectural touchstones, including the ...

Walking into Theaster Gates: Unto Thee, one immediately feels dwarfed. Floor-to-ceiling shelves packed with African art and cultural items fill the Smart Museum of Art’s lobby. Drawers filled with ...

Theaster Gates Jr., professor in the Department of Visual Arts and the College and a world-renowned artist, has been appointed Special Advisor to the President for Arts Initiatives at the University ...

Theaster Gates 'Black Madonna' (2017) Bronze and tar, 58 x 26 x 21 in. (148.6 × 66.7 × 54 cm). (detail) © Theaster Gates. Courtesy Theaster Gates and Kunstmuseum ...

Jane Fonda, Nancy Pelosi and Ava DuVernay bestowed the honors at the event, which raised $3.1 million for the museum. By Hadley Meares Contributor On Saturday night, over 600 power players from the ...

Walking into the Smart Museum, I was greeted with the sounds of Mongo Santamaria’s Images before even seeing the vastness that is Black Still Life #3. A vinyl was spinning on a record player, leveled ...