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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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 […]
LaToya Ruby Frazier and Julia Reichert in Conversation
February 18, 2020 Presented by Wexner Center for the Arts This year’s Lambert Family Lecture brings together visual artist LaToya Ruby Frazier and filmmaker Julia Reichert to discuss the power of art to spur social and political change. Frazier’s exhibition The Last Cruze is currently on view at the Wexner Center for the Arts, and […]
“The Notion of Family” is one of The Best Art Books of the Decade
ARTnews by Alex Greenberger Art books are forever, but the past decade brought forth what very well might have been more than ever before. ARTnews released a survey of the best art books published from 2010 to 2019, ranked in order of importance. They run the gamut from fiction to photo-books, and some have altered […]
Do Artists Have ‘Soft Power’ To Create Political Change?
Frieze Magazine by Adam Kleinman An exhibition at SFMOMA, named for the 1990 geopolitical term, considers the relationship between art and activism since the fall of the Iron Curtain SFMOMA At the close of the Cold War, the US political scientist Joseph Nye coined the term ‘soft power’, a theory which holds that nations can […]
LaToya Ruby Frazier Looks Beyond Blue-Collar Stereotypes
Hyperallergic by Laura Raicovich In The Last Cruze, the artist hones in on the vast inequities that persist in US society, as well as the tender relationships that enable survival and persistence in spite of them. CHICAGO In her exhibition, The Last Cruze LaToya Ruby Frazier presents a deep dive into lives of factory workers […]
TED Talk at “We The Future “
A creative solution for the water crisis in Flint, Michigan Artist LaToya Ruby Frazier 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 […]
LaToya Ruby Frazier Puts a Face on the US Labour Crisis
Frieze Magazine by Ian Bourland The artist’s moving portraits of ‘unallocated’ auto workers in Lordstown, Ohio, on view at the Renaissance Society, celebrate the power of unions as job losses hit US manufacturing During the late summer of 2019, some thirty General Motors plants were idled across the US during the strike of 49,000 members […]
Artist’s Lordstown photos are a call to action —
‘The workers are the heroes’ Detroit Free Press by Jamie L. LaReau LaToya Ruby Frazier’s initial encounter with General Motors involved water, not cars. About five years ago, GM was first to complain that corrosion, caused by high levels of chloride in the Flint water, was rusting engine blocks at its Flint Engine Operations. “They […]
Bryan Stevenson’s Moral Clarity
The Wall Street Journal Magazine by Donovan X. Ramsey The human rights lawyer, whose memoir is the basis for the forthcoming film ‘Just Mercy,’ has devoted his life to fighting for the convicted and the condemned. LaToya photographed Bryan Stevenson for the Wall Street Journal’s 2019 Innovators issue. Bryan and LaToya were both recipients of […]