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In this Fresh Talk LIVE feature, Cathy Byrd meets Chicago-based artist Theaster Gates in Washington, DC, on Election Night 2012. Theaster is the featured speaker...
Chicago-based artist, Theaster Gates, has developed an expanded practice that includes space development, object making, performance and critical engagement with many publics. Founder of the non-pr…
Chicago-based artist, Theaster Gates, has developed an expanded practice that includes space development, object making, performance and critical engagement with many publics. Founder of the non-pr…
Labour remains my protest. Art and action, my only weapons.
Chicago-based artist, Theaster Gates, has developed an expanded practice that includes space development, object making, performance and critical engagement with many publics. Founder of the non-pr…
Chicago-based artist, Theaster Gates, has developed an expanded practice that includes space development, object making, performance and critical engagement with many publics. Founder of the non-pr…
In our ongoing series, we go home, from home, with artists finding inspiration in isolation. This week, we reach American artist Theaster Gates at his home in Chicago to discuss new work for Gagosian’s Artist Spotlight series, and how, in recent times, he’s fallen back in love with making.
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Renaissance man Theaster Gates is fighting blight with artists in residence.
The Chicago planner-turned-artist’s transformation of Stony Island bank is the latest high-profile example of how the arts can drive a city’s redevelopment. But is this always a good thing?
Theaster Gates, this year’s Lewis Mumford lecturer on urbanism at City College, presents in a way similar to how his buildings perform: poetically and whimsically. His style of oratory — composed as an organic chain of animated anecdotes — allows his ideas to wash over and engage the audience emotionally without ever being didactic. With […]
Back in the summer of 2009, when it was reported that Chicago's Prairie Avenue Bookshop would close its doors , I held on to the notion ...
Renaissance man Theaster Gates is fighting blight with artists in residence.
The newly announced Dorchester Industries Experimental Design Lab will highlight and foster the work of 14 artists of color.
The Center for Architecture and Design has announced Theaster Gates as the 2017 recipient of its Edmund N. Bacon Award, which honors one individual...
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Gary Younge: Gates made his name by staging soul food dinners in honour of a fictional Japanese potter. Now he is recycling the fabric of Chicago’s past, including its bricks and mortar, to transform the city’s depressed areas
This week Mayor Rahm Emanuel, the Chicago Housing Authority (CHA) and artist Theaster Gates joined together to formally kick off the grand opening for the new Dorchester Art + Housing Collaborative...
Artist Theaster Gates is leading a project to turn 32 boarded-up homes on Chicago's South Side into a village for artists.
By Aaron Rose The work of Theaster Gates in the Greater Grand Crossing neighborhood stands as a series of bold community-based experiments that weave together art, architecture and urban development, illustrating how the three co-mingle to effect change. His meticulously conceived and crafted projects, including the Dorchester Art + Housing Collaborative, Black Cinema House and Dorchester Projects—created with sweat
Current work lecture by Theaster Gates, who will present his work followed by a conversation with Billie Tsien.
A cidade aproveita seus infortúnios para melhorar
