Theaster Gates in "Chicago" Preview

In this preview from the Chicago episode of Season 8 of Art in the Twenty-First Century, artist Theaster Gates creates work for a 2016 installation at Kunsthaus Bregenz, Austria.

Shown applying tar to materials such as doll heads and a vintage Ebony magazine cover, Gates states, “In these things that we imagine don’t have value are things that we simply stop seeing as having had value.”

“In these things that we imagine don’t have value are things that we simply stop seeing as having had value.”

Theaster Gates

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