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. His ...

An extensive solo presentation at the Mori Art Museum in Tokyo, “Theaster Gates: Afro-Mingei,” is the result of the deep research and learning Gates embarked on after his first visit in 2004 ...

Theaster Gates (left) and Nasher Sculpture Center director Jeremy Strick at Gates' studio in Chicago on Dec. 20, 2017. (Nan Coulter / Special Contributor ) ...

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 ...

Theaster Gates: London, urban reform and exemplars of Black excellence The American artist and urban planner returns to London for a cultural takeover on a grand scale, and – as one of five ...

Theaster Gates: ‘Hold me, Hold me, Hold me’ White Cube Gallery, 1002 Madison Avenue, New York, NY January 26 – March 2, 2024 “Heavy” is a word that comes to mind when thinking about Chicago artist ...

Installation view of Theaster Gates’s "A Game of My Own," 2017. (Courtesy Theaster Gates, White Cube and Regen Projects/National Gallery of Art) ...

Last week, at the National Gallery of Art, Theaster Gates took an ax to one of his own paintings. The end result — a glossy black canvas with a gaping wound at its center — is part of a ...

Theaster Gates recycles — or transforms — just about everything he gets his hands on. And some things he doesn’t. At Regen Projects, the Chicago-based artist starts with the stuff he finds ...

The last time Theaster Gates walked me through the abandoned bank at East 68th Street and South Stony Island Avenue, water dripped from the ceiling, clouds wafted over a hole in the roof, and ...