Theaster Gates
Theaster Gates’s Black Chapel Serpentine pavilion review – a welcoming labour of love
Gates uses an artist’s touch to create a dignified, Staffordshire kiln-inspired structure that celebrates community and work – and honours his late father
Rowan Moore
12, Jun, 2022 @10:00 AM
A monument to a roofer that lets in the rain: Theaster Gates’s Serpentine Pavilion
The Chicago-based artist has punched a huge hole in the roof of his Black Chapel. Could a downpour add one further thrilling sonic dimension to its programme of Gregorian chants, jazz recitals and Japanese tea ceremonies?
Oliver Wainwright
07, Jun, 2022 @9:41 AM
‘It’s got great drainage!’ – Theaster Gates on his open-to-the-elements Serpentine pavilion
Inspired by the kilns of Stoke-on-Trent, the Chicago artist’s Black Chapel will host bands, including his own, and also provide ‘a place of quietude’ where even the British weather is welcome
Oliver Wainwright
03, Feb, 2022 @11:45 AM
The best art and architecture of 2021 – the year the galleries reopened
As the galleries reopened, Jean Dubuffet was recast as an incendiary prophet, Poussin revealed his raunchy side – and a giant Swedish ‘plyscraper’ showed the miracle of wood. Our critics rank the highlights of 2021
Adrian Searle, Jonathan Jones and Oliver Wainwright
20, Dec, 2021 @9:46 AM
‘Clay feels perverse’ – Theaster Gates on working on Obama’s library and going back to pottery
The superstar ‘social artist’ has revived derelict buildings and rescued a legendary record collection – but in lockdown, as two new UK exhibitions show, it was singing and throwing pots that made him happy
Alex Needham
21, Oct, 2021 @5:00 AM
From a cookie jar to couplets and cocaine – Theaster Gates: A Clay Sermon review
This sprawling trio of exhibitions collects objects from many sources, marked by sometimes traumatic history, alongside Gates’s own, magnificent work
Adrian Searle
29, Sep, 2021 @7:10 AM
From Hokusai to Himid: the unmissable art and architecture of autumn 2021
Hokusai explodes into Britain, Sebastião Salgado paddles up the Amazon, Lubaina Himid gets a retrospective – and an eccentric postmodern bath finally opens to the public
Adrian Searle, Jonathan Jones , Oliver Wainwright and Sean O’Hagan
26, Aug, 2021 @7:00 AM
Theaster Gates: 'Art and protest are forms of political thought'
The artist talks about the work behind his first ever New York show, Black Vessel, and why white supremacy still threatens vital cultural institutions
Laura Feinstein
22, Oct, 2020 @7:31 AM
Theaster Gates: Amalgam review – memorial to America’s island of shame
The American artist uses music, installations and film in a moving monument to the fate of a post-slavery community in offshore Maine
Laura Cumming
15, Dec, 2019 @9:00 AM
Theaster Gates review – a shocking lament for the ransacked paradise of Malaga
Tate Liverpool
The US artist has turned his powerful gaze on Malaga, a self-determined, racially mixed island that was cleared of its inhabitants – and the bones of their ancestors
The US artist has turned his powerful gaze on Malaga, a self-determined, racially mixed island that was cleared of its inhabitants – and the bones of their ancestors
Adrian Searle
13, Dec, 2019 @4:55 PM
'My duty as a black man': the artist preserving gazebo where police killed Tamir Rice
Theaster Gates collects neglected black cultural objects in the hopes of preserving and displaying complicated history of race in America
André Wheeler
22, Nov, 2019 @9:00 AM
Theaster Gates: 'The male, Caucasian world as we've known it is over'
Whether he’s saving condemned buildings, playing jazz or redistributing Frankie Knuckles’s record collection, the artist wants to spread the word about the black experience – and point the way to salvation
Steve Rose in Basel
03, Jul, 2018 @3:21 PM
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