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New York’s newest public park floats above the Hudson River, the Serpentine Gallery names the designer for next year’s pavilion, and
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Theaster Gates to design 2022 Serpentine Pavilion
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Chicago-based artist Theaster Gates has been named the designer of London’s 2022 Serpentine Pavilion. With a background in urban planning, Gates will be the first pavilion designer who is not an architect,
In a recent event, University of Chicago faculty who served as members of the White House Council of Economic Advisers (CEA) in three administrations pulled back the curtain on the agency and on the high-wire act of working for a president.
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Renowned author and journalist Ta-Nehisi Coates will join a conversation with University of Chicago students as part of this year’s George E. Kent Lecture on May 20.
Hosted by the Organization of Black Students annually since 1984, the lecture series has featured leading Black scholars, writers and activists in commemoration of Kent the late literature professor who was one of the first Black professors to earn tenure at UChicago. The series is now held in partnership with the Harris School of Public Policy.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
For this year’s session, undergraduate students Jackson Overton-Clark and Debbie Adewale, co-political chairs of OBS, will host a Q&A discussing topics ranging from Coates’ writing to contemporary political and cultural events. The public is welcome to register here for the free virtual event, which will begin at 6 p.m. CT.
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The historic phenomenon known as the Great Migration saw more than six million African Americans leave the South for cities across the United States at the start of the 20th century and well into the 1970s. This incredible movement of people transformed nearly every aspect of Black life, in both rural towns and urban metropolises. The impact of the Great Migration spurred a flourishing Black culture and also established a new cadre of artists, writers, musicians, and makers. With this project, the co-organizing institutions bring together a group of intergenerational artists with ancestral ties to the South to research and reflect on their personal histories and migration narratives through the lens of their contemporary practices.