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Music, Music Feature Sep 22, 2015
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Frankie Knuckles's vinyl gets a permanent public home

Theaster Gates's Rebuild Foundation is about to open the Stony Island Arts Bank, whose collections will include 5,000 records the Godfather of House used in his world-changing mixes.
- By Leor Galil
- Tags: Music Feature, Frankie Knuckles, Stony Island Arts Bank, Stony Island Trust & Savings Bank Building, South Shore, Theaster Gates, Rebuild Foundation, Frederick Dunson, Frankie Knuckles Foundation, Randy Crumpton, Columbia College's Center for Black Music Research, Dorchester Projects, Gaylord Minett, Alan King, Video

Arts & Culture, On Culture Mar 31, 2015
With the arrival of US Artists, Chicago becomes home to still more 'genius' grants

The arts nonprofit, which awards dozens of $50,000 fellowships yearly, joins the MacArthur Foundation in what's becoming a hub of the 'prestige economy.'
- By Deanna Isaacs
- Tags: Deanna Isaacs on Culture, MacArthur Foundation, United States Artists Fellows, MacArthur genius grant, Kennedy Center, Kennedy Center Honors, National Endowment for the Arts, National Medal of Arts, Chicago Artists' Coalition, Carolina Garcia Jayaram, Poetry Foundation, Hubbard Street Dance, Theaster Gates, Dorchester Projects, James English, The Economy of Prestige, Chris Abani, Hubbard Street Dance, Alejandro Cerrudo, LaToya Ruby Frazier, Achy Obejas, Annie Proulx, Pulitzer, National Book Award, Brokeback Mountain, Art People: Iñigo Manglano Ovalle

Music, Music Feature May 28, 2014
Jason Moran builds a bigger bandwagon

Artist Theaster Gates and reedist Ken Vandermark join the jazz pianist in an oral history of their evolving Chicago collaboration Looks of a Lot.
- By Peter Margasak
- Tags: Music Feature, Jason Moran, The Bandwagon, Nasheet Waits, Tarus Mateen, Symphony Center, multimedia, CSO, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Theaster Gates, Ken Vandermark, MacArthur Fellows, Eric Revis, artists, writers, Joan Jonas, Adrian Piper, Kara Walker, Lorna Simpson, Stan Douglas, Terrance Hayes, Luhring Augustine Gallery, Katie Ernst, Jazz Ahead, Kennedy Center, jazz, Kenwood Academy Jazz Band, Gerad Powell, Chicago Jazz Festival, Black Monks of Mississippi, Dorchester Projects, Manhattan School of Music, Bruce Nauman, MoMA, Museum of Modern Art, Bob Thompson, painters, Charles Lloyd, Slug's, Lee Morgan, contemporary art, Venice Biennale, Glenn Ligon, Thomas Edison, Edwin S. Porter, film, Bert Williams, video art, Ken Vandermark, Jeff Parker, Steve McQueen, Chris Marker, Documenta 13, James Fahey, AAM, Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians, Steve Coleman, Andrew Hill, Albert King, blues, commissions, Willie Pickens, Bethany Pickens, Roy Eldridge, Franz Schubert, saxophone, hip-hop, composers, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, The Guggenheim, Velvet Lounge, street preachers, sculptors

Blogs, Bleader May 29, 2012
Chicago's creative (re)builders: a look at community-based arts projects

A look at some of Chicago's creative community-based arts projects
- By Elly Fishman
- Tags: Arts, Architecture, David Lepeska, Atlantic Cities, Theaster Gates, Dorchester Projects, Rahm Emanuel, the Black Cinema House, Laura Schaeffer, Op Shop, S.H.o.P, Emanuel Pratt, Mycelia Project, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago Film Archives, South Side Projections

Blogs, Bleader May 24, 2012
Torkwase Dyson: Slip 'n Slide as art project

A brief look at artist Torkwase Dyson
- By Elly Fishman
- Tags: Arts, Visual Art, Torkwase Dyson, Theaster Gates, Dorchester Projects, South Shore Cultural Center, DuSable Museum, Chicago Botanic Garden, William Pope.L

Blogs, Bleader Mar 26, 2012
A new art house in Edgewater

Former MCA curator Tricia Van Eck discusses her new Edgewater-based project, 6018NORTH.
- By Elly Fishman
- Tags: Arts, Visual Art, Tricia Van Eck, 6018NORTH, Museum of Contemporary Art, Theaster Gates, Dorchester Projects, Eva Kultermann

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