The 10 Best Art Shows of 2018 – LaToya Ruby Frazier

LaToya Ruby Frazier at Gavin Brown Enterprises NYC

Vulture
December 6, 2018
By Jerry Saltz

This list of the year’s best art achievements is a story of artists rising to the occasion, from the emerging talents coming out of Chinatown art spaces to the artists behind the Obamas’ official portraits to a significant (and once unsung) Swedish visionary.

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2. LaToya Ruby Frazier, Gavin Brown’s Enterprise
This artist’s searingly honest, empathetic documentary of images of the water crisis in black working-class communities yanked back the curtain on the rotten social malignancy that perpetuates the entrenched racial discrimination inscribed into American laws.

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This list of the year’s best art achievements is a story of artists rising to the occasion, from the emerging talents coming out of Chinatown art spaces to the artists behind the Obamas’ official portraits to a significant (and once unsung) Swedish visionary.

A creative solution for the water crisis in Flint, Michigan