What the Art World Can Learn From Women’s Basketball
"I met LaToya through the Gordon Parks Foundation in 2023, the year that I was honored at their gala. In my remarks, I talked about how I was motivated to follow Parks’s example in using art and storytelling to bring visibility to the WNBA. That resonated with LaToya because she is a former basketball player and has always wanted to tell their stories. When we met, we quickly discovered our shared passion for basketball and uplifting women athletes." —Clara Wu Tsai, New York Liberty Owner
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Distinguished Daughters of Pennsylvania 2025 Incoming Class Recognized by Governor
Distinguished Daughters of Pennsylvania PRESS RELEASE Congratulations to LaToya Ruby Frazier on her induction into the Distinguished Daughters of Pennsylvania, a recognition that honors extraordinary women for their outstanding service and contributions to the Commonwealth. Governor Josh Shapiro and First Lady Lori Shapiro Recognize Eight Women as 2025 Distinguished Daughters of Pennsylvania Velma A. Redmond, […]
LaToya Ruby Frazier: Monuments of Solidarity
In 2024, The Museum of Modern Art presented LaToya Ruby Frazier: Monuments of Solidarity, a landmark survey showcasing the full breadth of the artist’s practice. One year later, curators Roxana Marcoci and Caitlin Ryan, Jessica Bell Brown, and civil rights lawyer Sherrilyn Ifill, reflect on the exhibition’s creation, its impact, and the enduring resonance of […]
What the Art World Can Learn From Women’s Basketball
Cultured Magazine Sophia Cohen Sophia Cohen speaks with New York Liberty Owner Clara Wu Tsai about how she has transformed the Liberty’s home at Barclays Center into a cultural and entertainment hub. LaToya Ruby Frazier, THE LIBERTY PORTRAITS: A MONUMENT TO THE 2024 CHAMPIONS (2024-2025), 2025. Photography by Daniel Greer at the Barclays Center. Image courtesy […]
Celebratory Liberty Portraits Arrive in Brooklyn
Sports Illustrated by Kenny Saint-Vil The Liberty Portraits honor the New York Liberty’s first WNBA title with images that celebrate players not just as athletes, but as leaders, daughters, sisters and icons. The Liberty Portraits: A Monument to the 2024 Champions by LaToya Ruby Frazier at Barclays Center to celebrate the New York Liberty’s first-ever […]
Behind The Olympian Art Installation Celebrating The New York Liberty’s Championship
Brooklyn Magazine by Ian Browning The first-of-its-kind work by LaToya Ruby Frazier honors the players and their communities The Liberty Portraits: A Monument to the 2024 Champions by LaToya Ruby Frazier at Barclays Center to celebrate the New York Liberty’s first-ever WNBA championship. The parades for the New York Liberty’s historic WNBA championship may be over, […]
The Liberty Portraits: A Monument to the 2024 Champions
Time Out New York by Rossilynne Skena Culgan Exclusive: Powerful photos of NY Liberty players have popped up outside of Barclays Center The Liberty Portraits: A Monument to the 2024 Champions (2024 – 2025) ©LaToya Ruby Frazier. Courtesy of the artist and Gladstone. Photo: Daniel Greer Inside Barclays Center, when the New York Liberty players […]
LaToya Ruby Frazier on The Liberty Portraits
“The ten, nine-foot tall double-sided structures is my new 21st century monument dedicated to the New York Liberty 2024 championship team.” On July 3, BSE Global, parent company of 2024 WNBA Champion New York Liberty, the Brooklyn Nets and Barclays Center, alongside its Vice Chair Clara Wu Tsai revealed The Liberty Portraits: A Monument to the […]
The kids are alright
Meer Timothy Taylor Gallery 27 Jun — 1 Aug 2025 at the Timothy Taylor Gallery in NYC Timothy Taylor is pleased to announce The kids are alright, a group exhibition curated by Helen Toomer. Opening in New York on 27 June, this presentation will feature contemporary and historical works that explore cultural conceptions of childhood. The exhibition includes […]
Lewis W. Hine’s photos helped child labor laws pass a century ago
Los Angeles Times By Christopher Knight Trained as a sociologist, Lewis Hine picked up a camera and trained it on the cheap labor performed by children in American factories and on farms. The exploitation shocked the public, Hine’s poetic photographs exposing the soul-crushing nature of childhoods lost to labor. In the modern-day search for cheap […]
Get A Load Of These Black Women Artists–And Their Artwork
BLACK ENTERPRISE by Ahsan Washington 19 Black women visual artists to recognize for International Black Women’s History Month As we enter International Black Women’s History Month, Black art has always been a means of documenting and creating history, putting out powerful stories that depict Black women’s experiences, struggles, and triumphs. BLACK ENTERPRISE has chosen 19 Black women […]
The 100 Best Artworks of the 21st Century
ARTnews by The Editors of ARTnews, Art in America #22: LaToya Ruby Frazier, Flint is Family (2016) LaToya Ruby Frazier: Flint Students and Community Members Outside Northwestern High School (Est. 1964) Awaiting the Arrival of President Barack Obama, May 4, 2016, Flint, Michigan, Ill, 2016–2017. Gelatin silver print. 20 x 24 inches. A global recession, […]
How Artists Are Reframing Climate Doom
ARTnews Art in America by Kelly Presutti Zion Taking Her First Sip of Water from the Atmospheric Water Generator with Her Mother Shea Cobb on North Saginaw Street Between Morengo Avenue and East Pulaski Avenue, Flint, Michigan, 2019. From the series Flint Is Family, Part II (2017-2019) by LaToya Ruby Frazier. Literally sent from the […]