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Theaster Gates awarded Vera List Prize

In what we promise will be our last post about him this week, the Chicago-based artist and activist Theaster Gates yesterday was awarded the New School’s inaugural Vera List Center Prize for Art and Politics. The prize, which will be…

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Interview: Theaster Gates

dOCUMENTA, one of the largest and most important contemporary art exhibits in the world, takes place in Kassel, Germany every five years. In 2012, the 13th edition of dOCUMENTA presented work by more than 300 artists at eight major venues…

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Preview: Theaster Gates

dOCUMENTA 13 (or d13) is one of the exhibitions I wish I had been able to travel to this year. Founded by Arnold Bode in 1955, the exhibition originally was part of a flower show that happened every year in…

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