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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This giant exhibit at the New Museum explores racist violence in America
TimeOut New York by Anna Ben Yehuda Browse through the works of 37 Black artists while walking around the “Grief and Grievance” exhibit. “Grief and Grievance: Art and Mourning in America,” a new exhibition that has taken over almost the entirety of the New Museum and is set to stay put until June 6, explores […]
The art of processing our collective grief
CNN Style Oscar Holland, CNN We have heard the phrase “grim milestone” so often in the past year that it now falls into the realm of journalistic cliché. Monday’s news that the US has surpassed half a million Covid-19 deaths should not, however, be any less poignant for its morbid familiarity. These are the moments […]
Sorrows of Black America
The New Yorker by Peter Schjeldahl A show of leading Black artists at the New Museum powerfully channels emotional tenors that are true to the history—and the future—of race in this country. “Grief and Grievance: Art and Mourning in America,” which recently opened at the New Museum, is a terrific art show. I might have […]
A searing art show explores Black grief from the civil rights era to now
The Philadelphia Tribune by Sebastian Smee Curator Okwui Enwezor originally conceived “Grief and Grievance” in 2018, in the aftermath of a period that saw the nation’s first Black president, the death of Trayvon Martin, the rise of the Black Lives Matter movement and the murder of nine members of an African American congregation by a […]
New Museum’s Show Honors the Vision of Okwui Enwezor
artnet news by Brian Boucher Curator Naomi Beckwith on How the New Museum’s Show on Black Grief as a ‘State of Being’ Honors the Vision of Okwui Enwezor The exhibition spans works as far back as the 1960s and takes over the entire New Museum. “With the media’s normalization of white nationalism,” Okwui Enwezor wrote […]
Grief and grievance: how artists respond to racial violence in America
The Guardian by Nadja Sayej In a new exhibition, the work of 37 artists has been brought together to show how art can react to the epidemic of violence towards black Americans At a time when black Americans are twice as likely to die of Covid-19 as their white counterparts while a reckoning continues over […]
GRIEF AND GRIEVANCE: ART AND MOURNING IN AMERICA
New Museum February 17 to June 6, 2021 Get Tickets An intergenerational exhibition of works from thirty-seven artists, conceived by curator Okwui Enwezor From February 17 to June 6, 2021, the New Museum will present “Grief and Grievance: Art and Mourning in America,” an exhibition originally conceived by Okwui Enwezor (1963-2019) for the New Museum, […]
LaToya Ruby Frazier at UC Santa Barbara
Thursday February 25, 2021 at 5:00pm Race to Justice Virtual Event UC Santa Barbara College of Creative Studies Acclaimed photographer and MacArthur Fellow LaToya Ruby Frazier depicts the unsettling reality of today’s America: post-industrial cities riven by poverty, racism, healthcare inequality and environmental toxicity. Her groundbreaking series “Flint is Family” was named one of the […]
New book documents shutdown of GM Lordstown plant through the eyes of its workers
WKBN-27 by Stan Boney LaToya Ruby Frazier spent nine months documenting the workers and their families LORDSTOWN, Ohio (WKBN) – The front cover of a book recently published by LaToya Ruby Frazier was shot from a helicopter two days after the final vehicle rolled off the assembly line at the General Motors Lordstown plant. Of […]
Smart Museum exhibition to celebrate 40th anniversary of MacArthur Fellows Program
University of Chicago News Toward Common Cause to open in summer 2021 with art from 28 MacArthur Fellows Next summer, to help celebrate the 40th anniversary of the MacArthur Fellowships, the Smart Museum of Art will open an expansive multi-venue exhibition that will include the work of 28 MacArthur Fellows. Toward Common Cause: Art, Social […]
The San Antonio Museum of Art (SAMA) announces recent art acquisitions
“The ongoing expansion and enrichment of the Museum’s contemporary art collection reflects our deep commitment to bringing diversity, inclusivity, and new narratives to the contemporary art collection.” The San Antonio Museum of Art (SAMA) announced today its summer and fall contemporary art acquisitions, which include works by Christina Fernandez, LaToya Ruby Frazier, Jeffrey Gibson, Edgar […]
UC Davis Talk: Addressing the Power of Untold Stories Through Photography
University of California, Davis Office of Strategic Communications By Karen Nikos-Rose and Michelle Villagomez LaToya Ruby Frazier calls for a new ‘photo league’ to draw attention to injustices If an American photo league — like the one-time New York photography cooperative that arose in the first half of the 20th century — ever emerges anew, […]