Installation view #museumshutdown

LaToya Ruby Frazier: The Last Cruze Contemporary And Hundreds of independent art and museums spaces were forced to close due to the Corona-Crisis. In this series we are celebrating the fantastic artistic events that are right now sitting behind closed doors. Take a look on how visual artist LaToya Ruby Frazier turns her camera toward […]

In Memoriam A Tribute to Genesis Breyer P-Orridge

The Brooklyn Rail by Jane Ursula Harris I met Genesis in 2007 at the opening of a show I’d curated called Keeping Up With The Joneses. Along with work by Pope.L, Laurel Nakadate, LaToya Ruby Frazier (in her New York City debut), among others, it featured a photo of Lady Jaye in their Gates Avenue […]

The African-American Art Shaping the 21st Century

New York Times Prominent black artists on the work that inspires them most. OVER THE PAST 20 YEARS, a new vanguard of African-American creators has helped define the 21st century. Jordan Peele. Ta-Nehisi Coates. Kara Walker. Ava DuVernay. It’s the first time since the 1970s that black art, history and political life have come together […]

THE ARTIST’S EDIT: May Day

Gavin Brown’s enterprise presents…“MAY DAY” by LATOYA RUBY FRAZIER This playlist is dedicated to all the essential workers, healthcare workers, the poor, working-class people of this nation and all around the world, to the uninsured, disabled, detained, to the prisoners, to the sick who can’t get their medication because politicians and pharmaceutical companies would rather […]

Thanks, Mom! 6 Famous Artists Who Loved Their Mothers So Much They Made Them Their Creative Muses

artnet news by Katie White Since at least the Renaissance, mothers have encouraged—and sometimes inspired—artistic genius. Is there a more complex, loving, and sometimes fraught relationship than that between mother and child? Psychology tomes have been written trying to untangle the nuances and consequences of that very quandary. Perhaps it’s inevitable, then, that over the […]

11 Photographers on How To Finish a Body of Work

Aperture from the editors Over the course of her career, curator and lecturer Sasha Wolf has heard countless young photographers say they often feel adrift in their own practices, wondering if they are doing it the “right” way. This inspired her to seek out insights from a wide range of photographers about their approaches to […]

MAINTENANCE WORK: Andrew Russeth considers the role of art in a pandemic

Art Forum by Andrew Russeth There have been harrowing interviews with doctors, sobering podcast hits by experts, and on-the-ground reporting, but when it comes to images of the coronavirus pandemic, the defining ones have been almost entirely ancillary, at least a step removed from the actual devastation. That has made it difficult to grasp its […]

New York Emmy Award nominations for WNET

Thirteen|WNET New York Public Media The 63rd annual New York Emmy Awards nominations have been announced and the program feature by NYC-ARTS titled “LaToya Ruby Frazier: Artist And Advocate” is in the running. Winners will be announced at the 2020 New York Emmy Awards gala on April 18, 2020, held at the Marriott Marquis in […]

2020 Lambert Family Lecture at Wexner Center for the Arts

Moderated by US Senator Sherrod Brown, this year’s Lambert Family Lecture brings together visual artist LaToya Ruby Frazier and Oscar winning filmmaker Julia Reichert for a conversation about the power of art to spur social change. The pair delve into topics stemming from their recent projects, including the state of labor at home and abroad, […]

LaToya receives Gordon Parks Foundation/Steidl Book Prize

Art Forum The Gordon Parks Foundation in Pleasantville, New York, and the German publisher Steidl, which is based in Göttingen, have announced the launch of a new prize for artists whose practices reflect and extend Gordon Parks’s legacy of using photography as a tool to advance social justice. LaToya Ruby Frazier has been named the […]

LaToya Ruby Frazier chronicled Lordstown auto plant’s demise

The Columbus Dispatch by Eric Lagatta Visual artist LaToya Ruby Frazier spent nine months documenting the workers at the Chevrolet Cruze assembly line in Lordstown both before and after they rolled the final car off the assembly line. More than 60 of those images will be the subject of an exhibition opening Saturday at the […]

The sisterhood behind Flint’s bottled fence

Flint Side By Xzavier Simon FLINT, Michigan — Countless numbers of Flint residents have driven by the #waterislife and #nofilter water bottle display, stuck in the worn fences between West Pierson Road and Sussex Drive. It was a message, a symbol of hope, and a battle cry for Flint residents caught in the war with […]