
Theaster Gates’s New Exhibition Poetically Prods the Meaning of a Museum
At New York’s New Museum, the Chicago artist, preservationist, and urbanist presents artworks and artifacts that explore a museum’s role as a site of memory.
November 14, 2022
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What’s the purpose of a museum—and who decides which objects are worthy of value, attention, and care? These two questions, along with decades of inventive and collective artmaking, are at the core of “Young Lords and Their Traces” at the New Museum, the Chicago-based artist Theaster Gates’s first-ever museum survey exhibition to be staged in New York City (on view through February 5, 2023).
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