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 ...

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.

Click to open image viewer. “The pot is the atlas of my practice that connects me to the world of making, not only the narrow confines of the cultures predetermined for me.” – Theaster Gates Theaster ...

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 ...

You know who’s never had a big solo museum show in his own hometown? Strange as this sounds: Theaster Gates, the renowned, longtime Chicago artist, sculptor, community developer, collector, painter ...

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 ...

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 ...

In a solo exhibition at the University of Chicago's Smart Museum of Art, Theaster Gates reflects on the last 20 years. Elizabeth Cantrell is Deputy Editor at Travel + Leisure. She leads monthly ...

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 ...