Professor Theaster Gates, who serves as Senior Advisor for Cultural Innovation and Advisor to Harris Public Policy Dean Katherine Baicker, was recently featured in The Dallas Morning-News discussing the importance of viewing art through the lens of urban renewal.

“If we’re going to expand the territory and the possibility of art, we have to take risks, and we have to articulate why we’re taking those risks and what those risks mean,” Gates said.

Full coverage available at The Dallas Morning-News.