I thought mojang already fix about the chest turn black but still not fix. Even I try touch it still black. In creative there are some weird thing happen like chest goes invincible but until I interact the chest,it will appear(no screenshot because its invincible).
Have you tried destroying it, or placing and removing a torch next to it? Unfortunately, 0.7.3 had a different lighting value for the chest, so now some of them need to be updated.