Theaster Gates guest-edits Poem of the Day (Fall 2024); … [Gates] (he/him) is an artist whose practice finds roots in conceptual formalism, sculpture, space theory, land art, and performance. Trained in urban planning and within the tradition of
Japanese ceramics, Gates’s artistic philosophy is guided by the concepts of Shintoism, Buddhism, and Animism, most notably honoring the “spirit within things.” Foundational to Gates’s practice is his custodianship and critical redeployment of culturally significant Black objects, archives, and spaces.
Dikembe Mutombo, the Hall of Fame, finger-wagging center who spent much of his post-basketball career as an ambassador for the sport, has died of brain cancer at the age of 58, the NBA announced Monday. (ESPN)
