Jane Fonda, Nancy Pelosi and Ava DuVernay bestowed the honors at the event, which raised $3.1 million for the museum.

He's more than a genius ... Frank Gehry is a magician,' said Pelosi at the event, which also celebrated artist Theaster Gates ...

You know who’s never had a big solo museum show in his own hometown? Strange as this sounds: Theaster Gates, the renowned, longtime Chicago artist, sculptor, community developer, collector ...

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 ...

Installation view of Afro Mingei by Theaster Gates, Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas, Texas, 2022. Left to Right: Theaster Gates, Afro Neon, 2022, neon mounted on copper backing. Courtesy of ...

Chicago artist Theaster Gates got the call around the time the Johnson Publishing Company closed its Michigan Avenue headquarters in 2011. On the other line was Linda Johnson Rice, the daughter of ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

(Alex Barber/©Contemporary Arts Museum Houston and Theaster Gates Studio) Freedmen’s Town is sited in Houston’s Fourth Ward, otherwise known as Mother Ward. It became a nationally registered ...

This 100-year-old building, once slated for demolition and now restored thanks to the imagination, vision and tireless efforts of Theaster Gates and his Rebuild Foundation, is a shelter for our ...