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 ...

When the Obama Presidential Center opens on Chicago’s South Side in the spring, a series of large-scale artworks and installations by some of America’s most important living artists will help set the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

The Chicago-based artist and Prada launched the Dorchester Industries Experimental Design Lab, an incubator for designers of color. There is no shortage of Black talent in all fields of design—but ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Artist Theaster Gates has been building up the Greater Grand Crossing neighborhood piece by piece over the years with spaces for artists and residents to coexist with culture and beauty. Rebuild’s ...