Art
Theaster Gates Meditates on Construction in a White Cube
LONDON — Theaster Gates's latest show at White Cube is, surprisingly, largely limited to paintings and sculptures.
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Interview
Standing Up: Bill T. Jones and Theaster Gates Discuss Their Collaboration
Bill T. Jones and Arnie Zane Dance Company’s Story/Time is a kind of spoken dance piece inspired by John Cage: 70 one-minute stories “interrupted by a chance musical score.”
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Paul D'Amato Documents America, or Chicago's West Side
CHICAGO — Paul D'Amato’s large-scale photographs in his exhibition We Shall at the DePaul Art Museum offer a glimpse into the lives of ordinary people and urban landscapes on Chicago's West Side.
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From Ruin to Re-creation: Theaster Gates Returns to Chicago
CHICAGO — Theaster Gates’s installation 13th Ballad at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago (MCA) continues his investigation of art objects and social activism, which started in 2009 with the redevelopment of derelict houses in a South Chicago neighborhood, and which he took to a national stage a
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Pop Music's Love Affair with Contemporary Art
For too long there has been a large divide (whether real or imagined) between visual art and music. After all, what we came to call art most likely formed out of traditional ceremonies with music, dance, shrines, costumes, and ritual objects all working together. Now, that boundary is collapsing aga
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Social Practice and Global Media
The work of Social Practice is on the rise, but compared to the traditional art world news of auction prices and gallery openings, it doesn't seem to be receiving as much online attention.
Announcement
The Avant/Garde Diaries
The Avant/Garde Diaries [http://engine.nectarads.com/redirect/0/8794/9727/0/2ea185ff80df433f854a9aeeb1d73c47/0/0/0/0] is a digital portrait magazine that invites leading creatives to talk about the cutting edge of art, design, fashion, music and film. In each digital portrait, featured diarists are