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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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 […]
Acquisition: LaToya Ruby Frazier’s “The Notion of Family” Series
National Gallery of Art Press Release LaToya Ruby Frazier (b. 1982) employs her photography to call attention to economic, environmental, and racial inequalities, from the clean water crisis in Flint, Michigan, to the closing of the major auto plant in Lordstown, Ohio. The National Gallery of Art has recently acquired seven prints from her landmark […]
Captivating Views of Community Health Workers
HUB Johns Hopkins University Award-winning photo series was inspired by the work of Johns Hopkins physician-researcher Lisa Cooper, her colleagues, and the community health workers who supported and served Baltimore neighborhoods during the pandemic Lisa Cooper, Founder of the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Equity, met LaToya Ruby Frazier in 2015 at The Contemporary, a […]
Darkness to light: FIA features eye-opening exhibit ‘Flint Is Family In Three Acts’
Flint Side By Qiana Towns FLINT, Michigan — The first act of the multi-part art exhibition, Flint Is Family In Three Acts, expands on nearly five years of the Flint Water Crisis, and is currently on display at the Flint Institute of Arts (FIA). The Flint Is Family installation features photographs, videos, and text that […]
8 Standout Artists at the 58th Carnegie International
Artsy Tara Fay Coleman The Carnegie International, the longest-running North American presentation of international art, opened its 58th edition at the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on September 24th. Featuring work by over 100 artists and collectives, the 2022 iteration of the International necessitated not only a Pittsburgh-based curatorial team, but a broader […]
LaToya Ruby Frazier Wins 2022 Carnegie International’s Top Prize
ARTnews Francesca Aton Artists LaToya Ruby Frazier, Malcolm Peacock, and Hyphen— have each won one of the Carnegie International Prizes for their participation in the just-opened 58th edition of the Carnegie International. They were honored at a gala marking the show’s opening at the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh on Friday. Frazier was awarded […]
Flint Is Family In Three Acts Community Weekend
Thursday, September 15 through Saturday, September 17, 2022 Stamps Gallery (Ann Arbor) MSU Broad Museum (East Lansing) Flint Institute of Arts Join us for the community weekend of LaToya Ruby Frazier: Flint Is Family In Three Acts, which brings together five years of Frazier’s documentation of and collaboration with Flint residents as they endured the […]
Editorial: Morning at the 58th Carnegie International
Pittsburgh Post Gazette Editorial Board The relativity of time, experience and everything else is the theme of the 58th Carnegie International that opens on Sept. 24 and runs until April 2, 2023. There’s an old Mayan saying that will become more familiar in Pittsburgh in the coming months: “Is it morning for you yet?” It […]
‘Young, Gifted and Black’
1st West Coast Engagement of Survey Traveling Primarily to Colleges and Universities Opens July 28 at UC Davis Manetti Shrem Museum A wide-ranging exhibition that highlights artists of African descent whose work explores identity, politics and art history makes its West Coast debut July 28 at the Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of […]
Social Agitators, Joyfully Black: the artistic heirs of Gordon Parks
The Washington Post By Robin Givhan PLEASANTVILLE, N.Y. The meditative and affecting art installation in the modest gallery in the unremarkable building includes portraits of a community in crisis but one that’s also defined by determination and care. It’s a photographic story about lead-laced water in Flint, Mich. — a catastrophe unleashed in 2014 by […]