Weekend: Theaster Gates, Ann Agee, Andrew Forge

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This weekend, Robert Archambeau reviews Theaster Gates’s How to Sell Hardware. In 2016 Gates bought a family-owned hardware store that was closing in a struggling Chicago neighborhood. In the exhibition Gates both reimagines the store's remaining inventory as art and challenges distinctions between artists, commercial laborers, and home builders. Archambeau writes, “… it is hard, when exiting the gallery into a narrow street still filled with warehouses and laborers at work on loading docks, not to feel the separation of art and life collapse.”
While Gates participates in the art system, his exhibition proposes that art is just one kind of work, and that the museums and galleries that house it begin with the neighborhood hardware store.

— Natalie Haddad, Weekend Editor

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