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

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

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 ...

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

CHICAGO — Theaster Gates’s latest exhibition, When Clouds Roll Away: Reflection and Restoration from the Johnson Archive, would give all but the most radical archivist a heart attack. What’s here is a ...

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 ...

Artist Theaster Gates is partnering with Forman Arts Initiative. Holger Hollemann/picture alliance via Getty Image Gates will work FAI’s director Adjoa Jones de Almeida, the Brooklyn Museum’s former ...

On Saturday night, over 600 power players from the worlds of entertainment, art and philanthropy thronged The Geffen Contemporary for the 2025 MOCA Gala, raising $3.1 million for LA’s Museum of ...

The 21st Serpentine Pavilion designed by artist Theaster Gates will open to the public in London on Friday. Gates is the first non-architect to be awarded the estimable commission, though it was ...

American artist and urbanist Theaster Gates will design the 2022 Serpentine Pavilion, the first non-architect to win the commission in the initiative’s 21-year history. The Architect’s Journal first ...

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 ...