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    • Theaster Gates combines pottery and music in a collaborative performance, Chicago
      2015

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    • Theaster Gates combines pottery and music in a collaborative performance, Chicago
      2015

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    • Theaster Gates combines pottery and music in a collaborative performance, Chicago
      2015

      Production still from the Art21 "Art in the Twenty-First Century" Season 8 episode, "Chicago," 2016

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    • Theaster Gates combines pottery and music in a collaborative performance, Chicago
      2015

      Production still from the Art21 "Art in the Twenty-First Century" Season 8 episode, "Chicago," 2016

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    • Theaster Gates at the 2015 Istanbul Biennial, creating work in his pottery studio installation "Three or Four Shades of Blue"
      2015

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    • Theaster Gates at the 2015 Istanbul Biennial
      2015

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    • Theaster Gates at the 2015 Istanbul Biennial
      2015

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    • Theaster Gates at work in his Chicago studio
      2015

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    • Work by Theaster Gates in progress, in the artist's Chicago studio
      2015

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    • Theaster Gates at work in his Chicago studio
      2015

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    • A studio assistant welding in Theaster Gates's studio, Chicago
      2015

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    • Theaster Gates at work in his Chicago studio
      2015

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    • Theaster Gates working with tar at TECTUM GmbH, Hohenems, Austria
      2016

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    • Theaster Gates working with construction materials at TECTUM GmbH, Hohenems, Austria
      2016

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    • Theaster Gates working with tar at TECTUM GmbH, Hohenems, Austria
      2016

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    • Theaster Gates working with tar at TECTUM GmbH, Hohenems, Austria
      2016

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    • A work in progress using melted tar at TECTUM GmbH, Hohenems, Austria
      2016

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    • A work in progress, featuring an issue of "Ebony" magazine and melted tar at TECTUM GmbH, Hohenems, Austria
      2016

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    • A work in progress using melted tar at TECTUM GmbH, Hohenems, Austria
      2016

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    • Theaster Gates's Listening House, which holds the collection of Dr. Wax records and makes them available to the public
      2015

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    • Theaster Gates at the opening of the Stony Island Arts Bank
      2015

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    • The library at Theaster Gates's Stony Island Arts Bank
      2015

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    • The library at Theaster Gates's Stony Island Arts Bank
      2015

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    • Exhibition space at Theaster Gates's Stony Island Arts Bank
      2015

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