The Matter of Black Life: A Conversation with LaToya Ruby Frazier

LaToya Ruby Frazier works in photography, video, and performance to build visual archives that address industrialism, rustbelt revitalization, environmental justice, healthcare inequity, and family and communal history. She is a recipient of both the MacArthur Fellowship (2015) and the Guggenheim Fellowship (2014), and is an Associate Professor of Photography at the School of the Art Institute in Chicago.

Presented by The Black Midwest Initiative
University of Minnesota

Thu, November 2, 2017
7:00 PM – 10:00 PM CDT

Reception to follow | Free and open to the public | RSVP strongly suggested

University of Minnesota
Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum
333 East River Parkway
Minneapolis, MN 55455
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Sponsored by: Department of African American & African Studies | Race, Indigeneity, Gender & Sexuality Studies Initiative | Imagine Fund

Visiting Artist Lecture at the University of Florida

The School of Art + Art History at the University of Florida is proud to present visiting artist LaToya Ruby Frazier on October 24, 2017, at 6 p.m. in Little Hall, Room 101 (LIT 101). The Fall 2017 Visiting Artists Lecture Series is free and open to the public. The lectures offer the community an important opportunity to engage in discussions about contemporary art and culture in relation to national and international trends.

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Tuesday, October 24, 2017
6:00pm to 8:00pm
Free

University of Florida
Little Hall
Room #101
1400 Stadium Rd.
Gainesville, FL 32611

Being Modern: MoMA in Paris

From 10 October, the Fondation Louis Vuitton is hosting a remarkable new exhibition to present works from New York’s Museum of Modern Art (MoMA). The display—Being Modern: MoMA in Paris—will house artwork that has been acquired by the prestigious institution since its founding in 1929.

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‘It’s a unique opportunity to tell the story of how the museum’s unparalleled holdings were assembled both in and outside of New York,’ says MoMA director Glenn Lowry.

Iconic artists will be included in the showcase, with the likes of Paul Cézanne, Edward Hopper, Henri Matisse, René Magritte, Pablo Picasso, Marcel Duchamp and Andy Warhol drawing the majority of the attention.

The Parisian setting poses as a swanky alternative ‘home’ to these works which may have otherwise been put away in storage during the MoMA’s renovation. It could be argued that the change of location offers a more dynamic viewpoint on some of the art in the collection. Against Fondation Louis Vuitton, which is synonymous with affluent style, works such as LaToya Ruby Frazier’s photo series, The Notion of Family (2001-present)—depicting the livelihood of a black working class family—manage to stand out and feel more poignant.

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Courtesy of: Arts & Collections International

LaToya Ruby Frazier at Tyler School of Art

Please join us for the 2nd Annual Jack Wolgin Visiting Artist Lecture featuring Photographer and Video Artist LaToya Ruby Frazier. Using photography, video, and performance to document her hometown of Braddock, PA, her work addresses issues of industrialism, rustbelt revitalization, environmental justice, healthcare inequity, and family and communal history.

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Tue, October 10, 2017
6:00 PM – 8:00 PM EDT

Temple Contemporary, Tyler School of Art
2001 North 13th Street
Philadelphia, PA 19122

Art & Empathy: Storytelling for Social Change

An evening with artist, scholar, and TED Fellow LaToya Ruby Frazier

In today’s America, mass media dictates the dominant narrative, often silencing vulnerable communities and perspectives. Artist, scholar, activist and TED Fellow LaToya Ruby Frazier discusses how individuals and communities can collaborate on a grassroots level to amplify marginalized voices and come together with renewed agency.

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Thursday, October 5, 2017

7:00-8:00 p.m. | 45 minute keynote + 15 minute Q&A
8:00-9:00 p.m.| Exclusive Silver Dollar Society Reception with the speaker
Location: Corning Museum of Glass Auditorium (1 Museum Way, Corning, NY)

General Admission: $20 | Rockwell Members: $15 | Students: $10
Advance ticket purchase encouraged.

LaToya Ruby Frazier speaks at the Corning Museum of Glass

 

LaToya Ruby Frazier photographed in Chicago (John D. & Catherine MacArthur Foundation). 2015.

Ways of viewing the social landscape at Pier 24 Photography

The Grain of the Present at the nonprofit foundation Pier 24 Photography gives us new insights into the continued vitality of a certain way of working in the medium, and some of the most important photographers of the past 50 years are represented by astute selections of their work. On view through Jan. 31, the exhibition comprises what might almost be 17 substantial shows, each displayed in a separate room.

Photo: LaToya Ruby Frazier, Courtesy Gavin Brown’s Enterprise, New York/Rome

The various sub-exhibitions present classic works by nine first-generation observers of the so-called “social landscape” (Robert Adams, Diane Arbus, Lewis Baltz, Bernd and Hilla Becher, Lee Friedlander, Stephen Shore, Henry Wessel, Garry Winogrand) and eye-opening new takes by a second generation (Eamonn Doyle, LaToya Ruby Frazier, Ed Panar, Alec Soth, Awoiska van der Molen, Vanessa Winship).

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By Charles Desmarais
Courtesy of The San Francisco Chronicle


The Grain of the Present
9 am to 5 pm Monday-Friday. Through Jan 31
Free (appointment required).
Pier 24 Photography, San Francisco
(415) 512-7424
www.pier24.org