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LaToya Ruby Frazier’s MoMA Show Does Too Much
The photographer wants to “stand in the gap between working-class and creative-class people.” But her show’s venue makes that impossible.
“Monuments of Solidarity” is a show that makes you think hard about venue and scope, and how (or whether) an artist of Frazier’s commitment and range is really best served by a sprawling survey that by its nature privileges breadth over depth. Frazier made more work in her hometown as she was wrapping up “The Notion of Family,” including a kind of zine that both protests the closure of the town’s only hospital and critiques a Levi’s campaign shot in Braddock around the same time. The weakest part of the exhibition is the most obviously iconic: a small room at the end dedicated to Frazier’s recent photographs of Delano, California, and the legendary labor organizer Dolores Huerta, who co-foundedwhat would become the United Farm Workers with Cesar Chavez.
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