A creative solution for the water crisis in Flint, Michigan
LaToya spent five months living in Flint, Michigan, documenting the lives of those affected by the city's water crisis for her photo essay Flint is Family. As the crisis dragged on, she realized it was going to take more than a series of photos to bring relief. In this inspiring, surprising TED talk, she shares the creative lengths she went to in order to bring free, clean water to the people of Flint.
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‘A Choice Of Weapons: Inspired By Gordon Parks’
BlackFilm.com By Alex McGaughey Today HBO released the official trailer for the documentary, A Choice Of Weapons: Inspired By Gordon Parks. The film explores the enduring legacy of photographer, writer, composer, activist and filmmaker, Gordon Parks, and spotlights his visionary work and its impact on the next generation of artists. The film debuts Monday, November […]
The Last Cruze is one of ‘Our Favorite Photobooks of 2021’
Clément Chéroux Joel and Anne Ehrenkranz Chief Curator of Photography Michelle Elligott Chief of Archives, Library, and Research Collections MoMA selects LaToya Ruby Frazier, The Last Cruze (The Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago, 2020) as one of ‘Our Favorite Photobooks of 2021’ [MoMA is] launching a new yearly celebration of the photobook. The […]
The Royal Photographic Society announces 2021 award recipients
LaToya Ruby Frazier was awarded the 2021 RPS Honorary Fellowship Award for her exceptional and innovative work connected to the art or science of photography. Read more… Courtesy of: The Royal Photographic Society
Photography That Focuses on Those Who Are Often Not Seen
The New York Times Fine Arts & Exhibits special report By Geraldine Fabrikant From New York to Los Angeles, Black, L.G.B.T.Q., Native American and women artists are exhibiting works that highlight their communities and personal perspectives. During the pandemic, Isolde Brielmaier, curator at large at the International Center of Photography, began wondering how Black photographers […]
Review: A remarkable ode to union workers in LaToya Ruby Frazier’s ‘The Last Cruze’
Los Angeles Times Art Review By Christopher Knight, Art Critic Unions built the American middle class in the decades after the Great Depression of the 1930s, the common wisdom goes, and a mountain of evidence backs up the claim. Yet things have been bleak in that regard for many years. One example is the centerpiece […]
François Pinault’s Bourse de Commerce Museum Opens in Paris
BlackBook Arts & Culture By Ken Scrudato As the boundaries of wealth ballooned at the outset of the 21st Century (and continue to do so, worryingly), it was apparently no longer enough for those holding said wealth to boast a considerable art collection. After all, lots of rich people own Rothkos, Picassos and Basquiats – […]
Tracking the turbulent concept of ‘care’ in a pandemic-ravaged world
48hills Independent San Fransico news + culture By Caitlin Donohue CCA’s ‘Contact Traces’ offers entry points for urgent discussion, on topics from environmental racism to commercial wellness shams. “Do you have any answers for me?” asks LaToya Ruby Frazier’s mother in “Detox (Braddock U.P.M.C.),” the 2011 video piece the artist contributed to “Contact Traces” (through […]
LaToya Ruby Frazier, American Witness
The New York Times Style Magazine by Zoë Lescaze A marriage of art and activism, the artist’s searing photographs reveal the human toll of economic injustice. When General Motors announced plans to slash its domestic work force in 2018, company stock soared 5 percent. LaToya Ruby Frazier, a Chicago-based artist whose photographs and videos champion […]
Smudging the Line Between Art and Activism
LETTER FROM THE EDITOR The New York Times Style Magazine by Hanya Yanagihara Do artists have a duty to directly confront the injustices and inequalities around them? Anyone who’s read this magazine over the past four years knows that one of the things we’re most interested in here at T is what an artist’s relationship […]
Heartbreak and Resurrection in ‘Grief and Grievance’ at the New Museum
New Museum Art Review by Jerry Saltz The New Museum’s show “Grief and Grievance: Art and Mourning in America” finds terrible beauty in the pain, rage, mania, and sorrow that form the continuing psychosis of this country’s obsession with race. Featuring 37 Black artists working in the United States from 1964 to today, it plumbs […]
BOOK LAUNCH: THE LAST CRUZE
The Renaissance Society Saturday, February 27, 2021 The discussion will be conducted on Zoom. Click here to register. In conjunction with Printed Matter’s Virtual Art Book Fair, LaToya Ruby Frazier joins curators Karsten Lund and Solveig Østebø for an in-depth discussion of The Last Cruze, a substantial new book that expands upon her 2019 solo […]
LaToya Ruby Frazier in Conversation with Margot Norton at the New Museum
New Museum Friday, March 12, 2021 Join a conversation with artist LaToya Ruby Frazier in dialogue with New Museum curator Margot Norton. In conjunction with the exhibition “Grief and Grievance: Art and Mourning in America,” the New Museum is honored to host this conversation series and highlight the practices of artists participating in this exhibition. […]