Theaster Gates, Black Vessels for Doric Temple (2022-2023). Photo: Koroda Takeru Photo courtesy: Mori Art Museum, Tokyo. Leveraging the power within all these objects to elevate them to the status ...

Theaster Gates: ‘Sweet Sanctuary, Your Embrace,’ 2023. White Cube. Titled “Sweet Sanctuary, Your Embrace,” It’s a formidable sculptural object that Mr. Gates admits is a standing paradox. His late ...

For Freedom of Assembly, Theaster Gates’s second show with White Cube, the artist has uprooted a small corner of his hometown of Chicago in order to riff on the First Amendment and the freedom ...

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 ...

Art; Exhibitions & Shows; 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 ...

Theaster Gates shows the progress at St. Laurence Arts & Industry, the abandoned St. Laurence elementary school in the Greater Grand Crossing neighborhood that is being transformed into an arts ...

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.

Gates’ words deliver insight and mystery as they make sparks fly in the mind’s eye. Theaster Gates’ “Ground rules. Green scrimmage 2,” 2015, wooden flooring, framed dimensions 120 1/4 ...

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

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 shard… ...

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