When the bank was days from demolition, Gates spoke with Mayor Rahm Emanuel, whose brother, Ari, owns several Gates pieces; the city agreed to sell the abandoned building to Gates for $1, with the stipulation that he come up with the $3.7 million necessary for its renovation.
Gates's piece begins with a discussion of a speech given by August Wilson in 1996 in which the playwright declared that American theatre was an instrument of white culture and that blacks needed an autonomous theatre of their own.
It may, in time, at its most ambitious, be extended to add "age gates" to pieces – a quick, automated check asking you to enter a date of birth, or to log in.
Now he takes "The Gate," a multimedia piece including video, vocalists, puppetry and orchestra (with a prominent role for solo percussion), to the Brooklyn Academy of Music.
After them teams recent crushing loss to arch-rivals Barcelona, the group posted an image near Raqqa's main gate with a piece of paper saying: "Raqqa stands with Real Madrid".
Ms. Burk said local officials had sent protesters at the 2003 Masters golf tournament, which is played at the club, half a mile from the club's main gate to a piece of land owned by the club and not easily visible from the street.
Animation, poetry, and neuroscience come together in animator Sophie Koko Gate's newest piece for a Fundamentals of Neuroscience online course at Harvard.
NPR and the Times had planned on posting stories Sunday night, but ended up publishing a bit earlier than expected after The Telegraph jumped out of the gate with its piece just after 8 p.m. EST.
And one more small piece, Gate, was created in 2010, but when during this current exhibition I visited New York's Ground Zero (memorial to 9/11) for the first time, its construction seemed to resemble that artwork—I was really surprised.
In still others, a one-piece gate is hinged at the bottom sill so it may be lowered to allow a ship to enter.
