In the Tower: Theaster Gates: The Minor Arts
2017Mar5(Sun)–Sep4(Mon)About this exhibition
Overview: Theaster Gates (b. 1973) weaves together personal and cultural narratives, creating objects that speak to a particular time and place, and to the arc of American history. Popularly known for large-scale projects that transform vacant buildings into work of art, Gates has said that he is motivated by a desire to “reenvision place. . . not just as an art project, but as a way of living.”The Minor Arts imagines a world in which up is down, the past is present, and the marginalized becomes central. Salvaging discarded materials found in and around his native Chicago, Gates responds to the decline of urban institutions and traditions, and resurrects them as art. At the same time, he dra
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