Theaster Gates combines pottery and music in a collaborative performance, Chicago2015Production still from the Art21 "Art in the Twenty-First Century" Season 8 episode, "Chicago," 2016
© Art21, Inc. 2016
Theaster Gates combines pottery and music in a collaborative performance, Chicago2015Production still from the Art21 "Art in the Twenty-First Century" Season 8 episode, "Chicago," 2016
© Art21, Inc. 2016
Theaster Gates combines pottery and music in a collaborative performance, Chicago2015Production still from the Art21 "Art in the Twenty-First Century" Season 8 episode, "Chicago," 2016
© Art21, Inc. 2016
Theaster Gates combines pottery and music in a collaborative performance, Chicago2015Production still from the Art21 "Art in the Twenty-First Century" Season 8 episode, "Chicago," 2016
© Art21, Inc. 2016
Theaster Gates at the 2015 Istanbul Biennial, creating work in his pottery studio installation "Three or Four Shades of Blue"2015Production still from the Art21 "Art in the Twenty-First Century" Season 8 episode, "Chicago," 2016
© Art21, Inc. 2016
Theaster Gates at the 2015 Istanbul Biennial2015Production still from the Art21 "Art in the Twenty-First Century" Season 8 episode, "Chicago," 2016
© Art21, Inc. 2016
Theaster Gates at the 2015 Istanbul Biennial2015Production still from the Art21 "Art in the Twenty-First Century" Season 8 episode, "Chicago," 2016
© Art21, Inc. 2016
Theaster Gates at work in his Chicago studio2015Production still from the Art21 "Art in the Twenty-First Century" Season 8 episode, "Chicago," 2016
© Art21, Inc. 2016
Work by Theaster Gates in progress, in the artist's Chicago studio2015Production still from the Art21 "Art in the Twenty-First Century" Season 8 episode, "Chicago," 2016
© Art21, Inc. 2016
Theaster Gates at work in his Chicago studio2015Production still from the Art21 "Art in the Twenty-First Century" Season 8 episode, "Chicago," 2016
© Art21, Inc. 2016
A studio assistant welding in Theaster Gates's studio, Chicago2015Production still from the Art21 "Art in the Twenty-First Century" Season 8 episode, "Chicago," 2016
© Art21, Inc. 2016
Theaster Gates at work in his Chicago studio2015Production still from the Art21 "Art in the Twenty-First Century" Season 8 episode, "Chicago," 2016
© Art21, Inc. 2016
Theaster Gates working with tar at TECTUM GmbH, Hohenems, Austria2016Production still from the Art21 "Art in the Twenty-First Century" Season 8 episode, "Chicago," 2016
© Art21, Inc. 2016
Theaster Gates working with construction materials at TECTUM GmbH, Hohenems, Austria2016Production still from the Art21 "Art in the Twenty-First Century" Season 8 episode, "Chicago," 2016
© Art21, Inc. 2016
Theaster Gates working with tar at TECTUM GmbH, Hohenems, Austria2016Production still from the Art21 "Art in the Twenty-First Century" Season 8 episode, "Chicago," 2016
© Art21, Inc. 2016
Theaster Gates working with tar at TECTUM GmbH, Hohenems, Austria2016Production still from the Art21 "Art in the Twenty-First Century" Season 8 episode, "Chicago," 2016
© Art21, Inc. 2016
A work in progress using melted tar at TECTUM GmbH, Hohenems, Austria2016Production still from the Art21 "Art in the Twenty-First Century" Season 8 episode, "Chicago," 2016
© Art21, Inc. 2016
A work in progress, featuring an issue of "Ebony" magazine and melted tar at TECTUM GmbH, Hohenems, Austria2016Production still from the Art21 "Art in the Twenty-First Century" Season 8 episode, "Chicago," 2016
© Art21, Inc. 2016
A work in progress using melted tar at TECTUM GmbH, Hohenems, Austria2016Production still from the Art21 "Art in the Twenty-First Century" Season 8 episode, "Chicago," 2016
© Art21, Inc. 2016
Theaster Gates's Listening House, which holds the collection of Dr. Wax records and makes them available to the public2015Production still from the Art21 "Art in the Twenty-First Century" Season 8 episode, "Chicago," 2016
© Art21, Inc. 2016
Theaster Gates at the opening of the Stony Island Arts Bank2015Production still from the Art21 "Art in the Twenty-First Century" Season 8 episode, "Chicago," 2016
© Art21, Inc. 2016
The library at Theaster Gates's Stony Island Arts Bank2015Production still from the Art21 "Art in the Twenty-First Century" Season 8 episode, "Chicago," 2016
© Art21, Inc. 2016
The library at Theaster Gates's Stony Island Arts Bank2015Production still from the Art21 "Art in the Twenty-First Century" Season 8 episode, "Chicago," 2016
© Art21, Inc. 2016
Exhibition space at Theaster Gates's Stony Island Arts Bank2015Production still from the Art21 "Art in the Twenty-First Century" Season 8 episode, "Chicago," 2016
© Art21, Inc. 2016
Our Series
Latest Video
Morehshin Allahyari, American Artist, and Mimi Ọnụọha
July 2, 2025
