On the Waterfront: A quarter-mile-long stretch of docks, piers, and boardwalk is bringing city life right up to the edge of Green Bay's historic Fox River.
Four years ago, the quarter-mile-long stretch of land along the Fox River, about a block from downtown Green Bay, Wisconsin, was mostly a simple path and a large empty space behind a mall parking structure.
Theaster Gates, 12 Ballads for the Huguenot House, 2012. Installation view, Documenta 13, Kassel, Germany. It’s probably safe to say few people—if any, at all—have made a connection between the Huguenots who were run out of France in the 1700s and the waves of African Americans who fled the cruelties of the South during the 20th century. But drawing such unique parallels is a hallmark of artist Theaster Gates, whose work touches art, urban planning, culture, and music. For his well-received 12 Ballads for the Huguenot House, Gates and his team dismantled much of the worn interior and timbers of
An old meatpacking plant abutting Manhattan's celebrated High Line park could soon be replaced by what promises to be one of the most talked-about buildings in New York, if all goes according to plan.
Though it focuses on the work of Chicago architect Jeanne Gang, Building: Inside Studio Gang Architects at the Art Institute of Chicago is not a retrospective.