Tag: Theaster Gates

  • Art Without Heroes: Mingei

    This fabulous show is dedicated to Mingei, the influential folk-craft movement developed in Japan in the 1920s and 30s, in which traditional craft objects and unnamed artisans are valued for their cultural worth and aesthetic purity

  • Black art matters: what not to miss in Miami

    Miami Art Scene May 2021 – leading America’s obsessive, overdue, and necessarily over-weighted attention to diversity, the focus on Black Art has morphed from moment to movement

  • Grief and Grievance: Art and Mourning in America

    Full of the pain of black experience, the works here make the galleries thrum and shimmer with energy, their theme cleverly connected like spiderwebs

  • Transparent Things

    Video walkthrough of this group exhibition at Goldsmiths Centre for Contemporary Art narrated by curator Natasha Hoare

  • Liz Johnson Artur: If You Know the Beginning, the End Is No Trouble

    The photographer celebrates 28 years living among south London’s black British community with this thoughtful and affectionate portrait

  • Theaster Gates: Black Madonna

    Gates hopes to challenge and confront the prevailing European narratives of racial and religious authority by reclaiming the power of print as a medium for black emancipation

  • Dallas Art Fair

    The 10th edition of the major art showcase was an affirmation of the city’s commitment to visual culture

  • The Turner Prize 2015

    The winner of the Turner Prize will be announced on 7 December. If art holds up a mirror to society, then this year’s Turner nominees cast some thought-provoking reflections

  • Theaster Gates: ‘How do you get people to see things that to them are invisible?’

    In his latest exhibition at London’s White Cube Gallery, Artes Mundi prize-winner and social practice artist Theaster Gates assesses the multiple definitions of assembly, from the political and the artistic to the working-class

  • Prospect.3: Notes for Now

    New Orleans plays host to 58 artists from around the world – including Theaster Gates, Carrie Mae Weems, Agus Suwage and Jean-Michel Basquiat, as well as many less familiar names – for Prospect.3, whose dominant theme is race and identity