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    • Wednesday, 14 December, 2022
      ReviewVisual Arts
      Theaster Gates transforms the New Museum into an elegiac ‘wunderkammer’ — review

      Mid-career survey in New York presents the Chicago artist as a virtuoso accumulator of objects powered by memory and loss

    • Wednesday, 7 September, 2022
      FT SeriesThe HTSI autumn style issue 2022
      Mrs Prada and me: why Theaster Gates has joined forces with fashion

      In their Experimental Design Lab, the power duo are on a mission to amplify the work of designers of colour

    • Wednesday, 8 June, 2022
      InterviewArchitecture
      Theaster Gates on his Serpentine Pavilion: ‘It is intended to be humble’

      The artist is using his Black Chapel to reflect on race, society and family and to bring people together

    • Thursday, 3 February, 2022
      ReviewArchitecture
      Theaster Gates is an inspired choice for this year’s Serpentine Pavilion

      The artist will combine the potteries of England and the spirit of Chicago in his structure

    • Friday, 8 October, 2021
      FT Magazine
      Theaster Gates on ‘Clay Sermon’ and the stories objects tell

      The artist talks to fellow potter Edmund de Waal ahead of a series of exhibitions in London

    • Saturday, 27 February, 2021
      ReviewVisual Arts
      ‘The condition of black life is one of mourning’

      A stark new exhibition in New York fuses requiem and rage

    • Friday, 4 October, 2019
      FT SeriesFrieze Week 2019
      Theaster Gates on selfish energy and hopeful architecture

      The multitalented artist lays out his vision at Frieze’s annual Art & Architecture Summit in London

    • Friday, 2 November, 2018
      FT SeriesAutumn collecting 2018
      Bono, David Adjaye and Theaster Gates discuss their Red auction

      The contemporary art sale will support Aids programmes in sub-Saharan Africa

    • Friday, 28 September, 2018
      Life & Arts
      Encounter with another truth

      Theaster Gates, one of the most ‘iconoclastic and intellectually supple’ of today’s artists, on his bold new exhibition

    • Friday, 15 June, 2018
      FT SeriesArt Basel 2018
      Theaster Gates at Kunstmuseum Basel — an opulent web of words and imagery

      A master of multiple media, the Chicago-born artist both relishes the act of representation and questions its power

    • Wednesday, 20 January, 2016
      Life & Arts
      When an embassy becomes an art gallery

      The curators and collectors who are on a mission to place artworks in US embassies

    • Friday, 6 November, 2015
      Life & Arts
      Theaster Gates’ Sanctum, Bristol, UK: ‘A bricolage of the city’s archaeology’

      The Social Practice artist talks about his first public work in the UK and reaching for the sacred in art

    • Thursday, 29 October, 2015
      Life & Arts
      Chicago broadens its horizons with architecture biennial

      The city of skyscrapers and Frank Lloyd Wright looks to the future

    • Thursday, 1 October, 2015
      ReviewLife & Arts
      Turner Prize 2015, Tramway, Glasgow — review

      The art award gets a reboot with eloquent and understated works presented in an outstanding space

    • Thursday, 10 September, 2015
      Life & Arts
      Istanbul Biennial — report

      This year, for the first time, the entire city of Istanbul has been used to show art

    • Friday, 22 May, 2015
      Life & Arts
      Theaster Gates: artist or activist?

      One of the contemporary scene’s hottest figures describes himself as ‘a social practice installation artist’

    • Friday, 24 April, 2015
      Life & Arts
      Theaster Gates, White Cube, London

      ‘Freedom of Assembly’ explores the concept of assembly in its widest sense: individual freedom, empowerment, assemblage of objects

    • Friday, 16 January, 2015
      Life & Arts
      More exhibitions, including Theaster Gates and Serge Poliakoff

      Also Omer Fast and Sharon Lockhart

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