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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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 […]
LaToya Ruby Frazier: On her monument to the Community Health Workers of Baltimore
Artforum by Teri Henderson LaToya Ruby Frazier, More Than Conquerors: A Monument for Community Health Workers of Baltimore, Maryland 2021-2022, 2022, 18 stainless steel IV poles, 66 ink-jet prints and text panels. Installation view, Baltimore Museum of Art, 2024. Photo: Mitro Hood. LaToya Ruby Frazier is an imagemaker and a prominent advocate for visual justice and democratizing museum […]
Reflections on Home, Family, and Representation
Glasstire by Jessica Fuentes Review: Diaries of Home at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth I’m a 41-year-old woman and for most of my life the adults around me — educators, mentors, family — have given me the same consistent advice, “Whatever you do, don’t get pregnant.” As an adolescent I was baffled by these […]
Baltimore Museum of Art Celebrates 110th Anniversary
Culture Type by Victoria Valintine Paying tribute to the vast talents of artists John Akomfrah and LaToya Ruby Frazier and civil rights lawyer Sherrilyn Ifill with inaugural awards was the highlight of the evening. The Baltimore Museum of Art’s Ball and Party honored artist LaToya Ruby Frazier; artist John Akomfrah; and BMA Trustee, civil rights […]
The Art World Explores Concrete Ways to Fight Climate Change
New York Times by Alina Tugend Museums, galleries and other art institutions are looking for measures to reduce their environmental footprints. Visitors to the Hammer Museum’s show “Breath(e) Toward Climate and Social Justice” will be greeted by powerful works portraying the widespread impact of ecological degradation: photos of citizens in Flint, Mich., waiting for clean water, […]
LaToya Ruby Frazier: Monuments of Solidarity
Brooklyn Rail by Kamora Monroe LaToya Ruby Frazier is an enigma, but her subjects are definitely not. Installation view: LaToya Ruby Frazier: Monuments of Solidarity, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2024. Photo: Jonathan Dorado. A comprehensive exhibition of Frazier’s work over the years, titled Monuments of Solidarity, is currently on view at the Museum of Modern Art. Comprehensive […]
Breath(e): Toward and Climate and Social Justice
Flaunt Magazine by Julia Zara Time is of the Essence in this PST ART Initiative at the Hammer Museum We measure everything in time—the hours left in a flight, the minutes remaining for our pasta to boil, the seconds until a workout is over—with eyes glued to the timer. As time dwindles down and our […]
BMA to present ‘More Than Conquerors’
Baltimore Fishbowl by Ed Gunts Baltimore’s Community Health Workers are the subject of an art installation that the Baltimore Museum of Art (BMA) will present starting in November, LaToya Ruby Frazier’s installation entitled More Than Conquerors: A Monument for Community Health Workers of Baltimore, Maryland 2021-2022. LaToya Ruby Frazier. More Than Conquerors: A Monument for Community […]
In Photos of Flint and of Health Care Workers, LaToya Ruby Frazier Updates American Iconography
Art In America by Shameekia Shantel Johnson Since the early 2000s, Frazier has enlisted photography to transform everyday people and community organizers into statuesque figures. LaToya Ruby Frazier: Momme, 2008 There’s nothing more American than the idioms capturing the pride of hard work and individuality, the “pull yourself up by your bootstraps” and “burning the […]
LaToya Ruby Frazier on Lee Friedlander’s Ohio Factory Valley Series
“I can speak through photographs about how I feel about my lived experience in America and pay homage to people who are also everyday working people.” A photographer finds “healing” in the representation of Black working-class histories. Photographer and activist LaToya Ruby Frazier sees the legacy of the Black women of America’s working class in […]
LaToya Ruby Frazier’s Monuments to Workers
by Lovia Gyarkye Hammer & Hope The artist works with her collaborators to try to “invert and redistribute wealth and power.” On a cool evening in May, LaToya Ruby Frazier gathered with friends and strangers in a basement theater at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. The communion was a public event tied to the […]