The Chicago-based artist will draw from two vast photographic archives — including vintage images from Ebony and Jet — in his ...

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

Sourced from the pages of Ebony and Jet, Gates’ new work transforms images of Black women into a lasting public ...

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 ...

Imagine walking into a hardware store some four or five decades ago on Chicago’s South Side in search of nuts and bolts, lightbulbs, or PVC piping. Ken Mehta ensured that you got exactly the right ...

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 has been commissioned to create a major new artwork for the Obama Presidential Center which centers Black Women and Beauty.

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 ...

“Heavy” is a word that comes to mind when thinking about Chicago artist Theaster Gates. His sculptures, installations, and paintings, often made with reclaimed construction scraps and roofing material ...

The forthcoming Obama Presidential Center, a museum and library celebrating the 44th US president, has announced a new artist ...

Installed diagonally across the expansive gallery at Chicago’s Gray Warehouse, Theaster Gates’ Retaining Wall fully captures the gaze from myriad angles. Experiencing its colossal presence and ...

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 ...