Working out of an old airplane parts factory, the internationally-acclaimed artist Theaster Gates has refused to fit inside a ...

Pews in the atrium as part of Theaster Gates’s “13th Ballad” at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago (all photos by the author for Hyperallergic) CHICAGO — Theaster Gates’s installation 13th Ballad ...

EXPO Chicago: The international art fair is underway on Navy Pier, featuring contemporary works from more than 170 galleries. Now in its second year since its acquisition by London-based Frieze, EXPO ...

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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 ...

Few creative and pop culture figures from the last 70 years are more widely recognized than Yoko Ono, the 92-year-old peace activist and former collaborator with such famed musicians as John Cage, ...

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 tribute. When the nearly 20-acre cultural and civic campus opens on Chicago’s South Side ...

Theaster Gates isn’t trying to sell you anything. And that’s why his work, a labor performance called Soul Manufacturing Corporation, at Locust Projects in Little Haiti is worth so much money. The ...

Chicago is not the violent and rudderless place that the news, pop culture or President Donald Trump makes it out to be, some of the city’s top cultural figures said Thursday at a city tourism event.