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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LaToya receives Gordon Parks Foundation/Steidl Book Prize
Art Forum The Gordon Parks Foundation in Pleasantville, New York, and the German publisher Steidl, which is based in Göttingen, have announced the launch of a new prize for artists whose practices reflect and extend Gordon Parks’s legacy of using photography as a tool to advance social justice. LaToya Ruby Frazier has been named the […]
LaToya Ruby Frazier chronicled Lordstown auto plant’s demise
The Columbus Dispatch by Eric Lagatta Visual artist LaToya Ruby Frazier spent nine months documenting the workers at the Chevrolet Cruze assembly line in Lordstown both before and after they rolled the final car off the assembly line. More than 60 of those images will be the subject of an exhibition opening Saturday at the […]
The sisterhood behind Flint’s bottled fence
Flint Side By Xzavier Simon FLINT, Michigan — Countless numbers of Flint residents have driven by the #waterislife and #nofilter water bottle display, stuck in the worn fences between West Pierson Road and Sussex Drive. It was a message, a symbol of hope, and a battle cry for Flint residents caught in the war with […]
Artists Help Us to Gain a Deeper Understanding of Death and Healing
Hyperallergic By Ilene Dube From Albrecht Dürer to LaToya Ruby Frazier, artists have for centuries depicted and reflected on health and illness. PRINCETON, New Jersey — Lately, I’ve been starting my days with the daily e-mails of a neighbor, his meditations on coping with cancer and addiction, as well as the YouTube videos of a […]
100 Works of Art That Defined the Decade
ArtNet News by Ben Davis National art critic Ben Davis, reveals his top 100 picks of key artworks of the 2010s. “Best of” lists are always at least half frauds. After all, no one can really see all the movies or read all the books in a year, let alone a decade—but at least film […]
The New York Times Year In Pictures 2019
The New York Times by Dean Baquet, Executive Editor 5.6 million. That’s roughly the number of images photo editors of The New York Times sift through each year to find the perfect photographs to represent the news for our readers. This collection of images is a testament to a mere fraction of the conflicts and […]
PhotoNOLA covers 70 exhibitions
Gambit Weekly by Jake Clapp PhotoNOLA covers 70 exhibitions in its 2019 festival Dec. 11-14 Seventy exhibitions, along with workshops and other special events, fall under PhotoNOLA’s broad umbrella this year. Now in its 14th year, PhotoNOLA 2019, produced by the New Orleans Photo Alliance, takes place Wednesday, Dec. 11, through Saturday, Dec. 14, at […]
LaToya Ruby Frazier and Julia Reichert in Conversation
February 18, 2020 Presented by Wexner Center for the Arts This year’s Lambert Family Lecture brings together visual artist LaToya Ruby Frazier and filmmaker Julia Reichert to discuss the power of art to spur social and political change. Frazier’s exhibition The Last Cruze is currently on view at the Wexner Center for the Arts, and […]
“The Notion of Family” is one of The Best Art Books of the Decade
ARTnews by Alex Greenberger Art books are forever, but the past decade brought forth what very well might have been more than ever before. ARTnews released a survey of the best art books published from 2010 to 2019, ranked in order of importance. They run the gamut from fiction to photo-books, and some have altered […]
Do Artists Have ‘Soft Power’ To Create Political Change?
Frieze Magazine by Adam Kleinman An exhibition at SFMOMA, named for the 1990 geopolitical term, considers the relationship between art and activism since the fall of the Iron Curtain SFMOMA At the close of the Cold War, the US political scientist Joseph Nye coined the term ‘soft power’, a theory which holds that nations can […]
LaToya Ruby Frazier Looks Beyond Blue-Collar Stereotypes
Hyperallergic by Laura Raicovich In The Last Cruze, the artist hones in on the vast inequities that persist in US society, as well as the tender relationships that enable survival and persistence in spite of them. CHICAGO In her exhibition, The Last Cruze LaToya Ruby Frazier presents a deep dive into lives of factory workers […]
TED Talk at “We The Future “
A creative solution for the water crisis in Flint, Michigan Artist LaToya Ruby Frazier 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 […]