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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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 […]
Grief and grievance: how artists respond to racial violence in America
The Guardian by Nadja Sayej In a new exhibition, the work of 37 artists has been brought together to show how art can react to the epidemic of violence towards black Americans At a time when black Americans are twice as likely to die of Covid-19 as their white counterparts while a reckoning continues over […]
GRIEF AND GRIEVANCE: ART AND MOURNING IN AMERICA
New Museum February 17 to June 6, 2021 Get Tickets An intergenerational exhibition of works from thirty-seven artists, conceived by curator Okwui Enwezor From February 17 to June 6, 2021, the New Museum will present “Grief and Grievance: Art and Mourning in America,” an exhibition originally conceived by Okwui Enwezor (1963-2019) for the New Museum, […]
LaToya Ruby Frazier at UC Santa Barbara
Thursday February 25, 2021 at 5:00pm Race to Justice Virtual Event UC Santa Barbara College of Creative Studies Acclaimed photographer and MacArthur Fellow LaToya Ruby Frazier depicts the unsettling reality of today’s America: post-industrial cities riven by poverty, racism, healthcare inequality and environmental toxicity. Her groundbreaking series “Flint is Family” was named one of the […]
New book documents shutdown of GM Lordstown plant through the eyes of its workers
WKBN-27 by Stan Boney LaToya Ruby Frazier spent nine months documenting the workers and their families LORDSTOWN, Ohio (WKBN) – The front cover of a book recently published by LaToya Ruby Frazier was shot from a helicopter two days after the final vehicle rolled off the assembly line at the General Motors Lordstown plant. Of […]