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A Poem to New York

March 20, 2013

In Rome Exhibition, a Poem to New York
The New York Times
Ted Loos
March 20, 2013

NEW York’s role as the ruling city of the art world has held steady since at least the middle of the 20th century. Next month, a new exhibition about the city’s ever-growing and constantly shifting art scene is opening in the capital of a much older empire: Rome.
“Empire State,” featuring the work of more than 25 New York artists, opens in Rome’s Palazzo delle Esposizioni on April 22 and runs until July 21.

Haunted: Q&A with LaToya Ruby Frazier

March 19, 2013

Haunted: Q&A with LaToya Ruby Frazier
Art In America
Greg Lindquist
March 19, 2013

“A Haunted Capital,” LaToya Ruby Frazier’s first New York solo exhibition, opens Mar. 22 at the Brooklyn Museum. Frazier’s work, addressing her hometown of Braddock, Pa., near Pittsburgh, has taken many forms as she has moved from photography to performance, documentary to activism. She is known primarily for black-and-white portraits of herself and her extended family.

LaToya Ruby Frazier: A Haunted Capital

February 22, 2013

LaToya Ruby Frazier (American, b. 1982). Grandma Ruby and Me, 2005. Gelatin silver photograph, 15 1/2 x 18 1/2 in. (39.4 x 47 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Emily Winthrop Miles Fund, 2011.63.1. © LaToya Ruby Frazier

Brooklyn Museum Exhibitions
LaToya Ruby Frazier: A Haunted Capital

March 22–August 11, 2013
Mezzanine Gallery, 2nd Floor

LaToya Ruby Frazier: A Haunted Capital uses social documentary and portraiture to create a personal visual history of an industrial town’s decline. Through approximately 40 photographic works of her family and their hometown of Braddock, Pennsylvania, Frazier offers an intimate exploration of the effects of deindustrialization on the lives of individuals and communities. Home to one of America’s first steel mills, Braddock now has a population below 2,500 and has been declared a “distressed municipality.”