Jane Fonda, Nancy Pelosi and Ava DuVernay bestowed the honors at the event, which raised $3.1 million for the museum. By Hadley Meares Contributor On Saturday night, over 600 power players from the ...

Four weeks until the opening of his new exhibition, and the artist Theaster Gates is at the Smart Museum, on the University of Chicago campus, helping fabricators install a work that includes many ...

The Smart Museum at the University of Chicago has just unveiled plans for a major mid-career survey of the work of one of the city’s most famous artists, Theaster Gates. Under the working title “Unto ...

Theaster Gates made his name with multimedia artistic research that freely combines a sociological and anthropological approach to art with relational practices, working on-site with communities and ...

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 ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. MILAN — The Prada family’s penchant for sophisticated design, avant-garde art and fine decor is as mythological as its fashion ...

Theaster Gates’s latest exhibition came about at the very moment the artist decided to overhaul his approach to mounting shows. The Chicago native—whose installations and sculptures have been shown ...

Installation view of ‘Theaster Gates: True Value View’ at the Fondazione Prada, Milan (photo by Delfino Sisto Legnani Studio, image courtesy Fondazione Prada) MILAN — Following the major economic ...

Walking into Theaster Gates: Unto Thee, one immediately feels dwarfed. Floor-to-ceiling shelves packed with African art and cultural items fill the Smart Museum of Art’s lobby. Drawers filled with ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On Saturday night, over 600 power players from the worlds of entertainment, art and philanthropy thronged The Geffen Contemporary ...