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You should always have a project that is just your life work. It should be the thing that carries you through the highs and lows. A kind of constant gardening.

—Theaster Gates, in a wonderful feature with my friends at Chicago magazine about his life and work. I met Theaster briefly last year and he is as charismatic as he appears on paper. His latest major solo exhibition opens at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago next weekend. The article is long, but still a “must read.” (via britticisms)