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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François Pinault’s Bourse de Commerce Museum Opens in Paris
BlackBook Arts & Culture By Ken Scrudato As the boundaries of wealth ballooned at the outset of the 21st Century (and continue to do so, worryingly), it was apparently no longer enough for those holding said wealth to boast a considerable art collection. After all, lots of rich people own Rothkos, Picassos and Basquiats – […]
Tracking the turbulent concept of ‘care’ in a pandemic-ravaged world
48hills Independent San Fransico news + culture By Caitlin Donohue CCA’s ‘Contact Traces’ offers entry points for urgent discussion, on topics from environmental racism to commercial wellness shams. “Do you have any answers for me?” asks LaToya Ruby Frazier’s mother in “Detox (Braddock U.P.M.C.),” the 2011 video piece the artist contributed to “Contact Traces” (through […]
LaToya Ruby Frazier, American Witness
The New York Times Style Magazine by Zoë Lescaze A marriage of art and activism, the artist’s searing photographs reveal the human toll of economic injustice. When General Motors announced plans to slash its domestic work force in 2018, company stock soared 5 percent. LaToya Ruby Frazier, a Chicago-based artist whose photographs and videos champion […]
Smudging the Line Between Art and Activism
LETTER FROM THE EDITOR The New York Times Style Magazine by Hanya Yanagihara Do artists have a duty to directly confront the injustices and inequalities around them? Anyone who’s read this magazine over the past four years knows that one of the things we’re most interested in here at T is what an artist’s relationship […]
Heartbreak and Resurrection in ‘Grief and Grievance’ at the New Museum
New Museum Art Review by Jerry Saltz The New Museum’s show “Grief and Grievance: Art and Mourning in America” finds terrible beauty in the pain, rage, mania, and sorrow that form the continuing psychosis of this country’s obsession with race. Featuring 37 Black artists working in the United States from 1964 to today, it plumbs […]
BOOK LAUNCH: THE LAST CRUZE
The Renaissance Society Saturday, February 27, 2021 The discussion will be conducted on Zoom. Click here to register. In conjunction with Printed Matter’s Virtual Art Book Fair, LaToya Ruby Frazier joins curators Karsten Lund and Solveig Østebø for an in-depth discussion of The Last Cruze, a substantial new book that expands upon her 2019 solo […]
LaToya Ruby Frazier in Conversation with Margot Norton at the New Museum
New Museum Friday, March 12, 2021 Join a conversation with artist LaToya Ruby Frazier in dialogue with New Museum curator Margot Norton. In conjunction with the exhibition “Grief and Grievance: Art and Mourning in America,” the New Museum is honored to host this conversation series and highlight the practices of artists participating in this exhibition. […]
This giant exhibit at the New Museum explores racist violence in America
TimeOut New York by Anna Ben Yehuda Browse through the works of 37 Black artists while walking around the “Grief and Grievance” exhibit. “Grief and Grievance: Art and Mourning in America,” a new exhibition that has taken over almost the entirety of the New Museum and is set to stay put until June 6, explores […]
The art of processing our collective grief
CNN Style Oscar Holland, CNN We have heard the phrase “grim milestone” so often in the past year that it now falls into the realm of journalistic cliché. Monday’s news that the US has surpassed half a million Covid-19 deaths should not, however, be any less poignant for its morbid familiarity. These are the moments […]
Sorrows of Black America
The New Yorker by Peter Schjeldahl A show of leading Black artists at the New Museum powerfully channels emotional tenors that are true to the history—and the future—of race in this country. “Grief and Grievance: Art and Mourning in America,” which recently opened at the New Museum, is a terrific art show. I might have […]
A searing art show explores Black grief from the civil rights era to now
The Philadelphia Tribune by Sebastian Smee Curator Okwui Enwezor originally conceived “Grief and Grievance” in 2018, in the aftermath of a period that saw the nation’s first Black president, the death of Trayvon Martin, the rise of the Black Lives Matter movement and the murder of nine members of an African American congregation by a […]
New Museum’s Show Honors the Vision of Okwui Enwezor
artnet news by Brian Boucher Curator Naomi Beckwith on How the New Museum’s Show on Black Grief as a ‘State of Being’ Honors the Vision of Okwui Enwezor The exhibition spans works as far back as the 1960s and takes over the entire New Museum. “With the media’s normalization of white nationalism,” Okwui Enwezor wrote […]