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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Photography Report: Imaging Racial Capital
e-flux Criticismby KJ Abudu View of “LaToya Ruby Frazier: More Than Conquerors: A Monument for Community Health Workers of Baltimore, Maryland 2021-2022” at Gladstone Gallery, New York, 2023. Image courtesy of Gladstone Gallery. That photography has become one of the most banal visual interfaces in twenty-first-century life is no new observation. Every day, millions of […]
THE-NEW-SOCIAL-ENVIRONMENT #785
LaToya Ruby Frazier: More Than Conquerors Featuring LaToya Ruby Frazier and Jessica Holmes, with Madison McCartha Monday, April 10, 2023 1 p.m. Eastern / 10 a.m. Pacific Visual artist, photographer, and advocate LaToya Ruby Frazier joins Rail Art Editor Jessica Holmes for a conversation. We conclude with a poetry reading by Madison McCartha. Read more… […]
Tony Norman: LaToya Ruby Frazier’s photos are a witness and a mirror
NEXT Pittsburgh by Tony Norman One day, artist LaToya Ruby Frazier’s body of work will be considered key to understanding how many Americans learned to look at their fellow citizens with a little more empathy and compassion in the first half of the 21st century. Installation view of LaToya Ruby Frazier, More Than Conquerors: A […]
LaToya Ruby Frazier: Monuments of Solidarity at MoMA
May 12, 2024 – September 7, 2024 The Museum of Modern Art 11 West 53rd Street New York, NY 10019 The Museum of Modern Art announces LaToya Ruby Frazier: Monuments of Solidarity, the first museum survey dedicated to the artist-activist, on view at MoMA from May 12 through September 7, 2024. For more than two […]
LaToya Ruby Frazier at Gladstone Gallery
More Than Conquerors: A Monument for Community Health Workers of Baltimore, Maryland 2021-2022 March 2, 2023 – April 15, 2023 Opening reception: March 2, 5pm – 7pm Gladstone Gallery530 West 21st Street New York, NYPress Release Gladstone is pleased to announce its first exhibition with LaToya Ruby Frazier. The show presents the artist’s most recent […]
NYC-ARTS: Noguchi Museum & LaToya Ruby Frazier
A visit to the Noguchi Museum in Queens to explore the legacy of world-renowned sculptor, Isamu Noguchi. Then a profile of photographer and video artist LaToya Ruby Frazier, whose work follows in the social documentary tradition of Walker Evans and Gordon Parks. Courtesy of: NYC-ARTS.org Aired: 2/23/2023 on Thirteen|WNET New York Public Media
Trinity Talks: Art as a Medium for Change
Visual art is a doorway to new insights and revelations. It can challenge the expected narrative and transform our way of perceiving and understanding, if even for a moment. Join Trinity as we welcome artists who invite us to see our relationships, culture, and environment in a new way—calling us to respond and take part […]
Carnegie Museum of Art’s somber 58th International is brightened by compassion, breadth, humanitarian spirit
Cleveland.com By Steven Litt PITTSBURGH, Pennsylvania — It’s big, it’s sprawling, it’s relentless, and at times, it’s vexing, gross, disturbing, and tiresome in the often anti-American politics espoused by its artists. Forget all of that. Go and see the 58th Carnegie International at the Carnegie Museum of Art. The show’s flaws and shortcomings are more […]
10 Artists Inspired by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
CULTURED By Annie Lyall Slaughter In celebration of Martin Luther King Jr., CULTURED spotlights ten artists whose artistic mission, ethos, and messaging align with the spirit of activism, hope, and liberation put forth by the civil rights leader. […] LaToya Ruby Frazier Chicago-based artist LaToya Ruby Frazier has committed her life’s work to documenting and […]
How These Contemporary Artists Are Redefining Family and Kinship
Smithsonian Magazine By Shantay Robinson Explore the enduring bonds and intimacies of modern love at the National Portrait Gallery In the self-portrait, the artist is holding their baby behind a screen door; in their eyes is a look of intense love, and their tender embrace of the child is deeply moving. The 2018 photograph by […]
The Ten Best Photography Books of 2022
Smithsonian Magazine Donny Bajohr, Jeff Campagna and Quentin Nardi Our favorite titles this year invite viewers to worlds outside their own As photo editors at Smithsonian magazine, one thing we really love about photography is that through this medium, freely extended to us, is a most extraordinary invitation—a front-row seat into a world we never […]
‘Kinship’ at the National Portrait Gallery looks at all the ways we are connected
Andscape By Lonnae O’Neal Artists offer a counterbalance to mainstream conceptions of family Kinship, a new exhibit at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, explores the complexities of how people connect. And much like the notion of kinship itself, familial or fictive or forged, what we find are multilayered stories of togetherness. The exhibit is […]