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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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 […]
Artists Help Us to Gain a Deeper Understanding of Death and Healing
Hyperallergic By Ilene Dube From Albrecht Dürer to LaToya Ruby Frazier, artists have for centuries depicted and reflected on health and illness. PRINCETON, New Jersey — Lately, I’ve been starting my days with the daily e-mails of a neighbor, his meditations on coping with cancer and addiction, as well as the YouTube videos of a […]
100 Works of Art That Defined the Decade
ArtNet News by Ben Davis National art critic Ben Davis, reveals his top 100 picks of key artworks of the 2010s. “Best of” lists are always at least half frauds. After all, no one can really see all the movies or read all the books in a year, let alone a decade—but at least film […]
The New York Times Year In Pictures 2019
The New York Times by Dean Baquet, Executive Editor 5.6 million. That’s roughly the number of images photo editors of The New York Times sift through each year to find the perfect photographs to represent the news for our readers. This collection of images is a testament to a mere fraction of the conflicts and […]
PhotoNOLA covers 70 exhibitions
Gambit Weekly by Jake Clapp PhotoNOLA covers 70 exhibitions in its 2019 festival Dec. 11-14 Seventy exhibitions, along with workshops and other special events, fall under PhotoNOLA’s broad umbrella this year. Now in its 14th year, PhotoNOLA 2019, produced by the New Orleans Photo Alliance, takes place Wednesday, Dec. 11, through Saturday, Dec. 14, at […]