Latoya Ruby Frazier, right, visits her dear friend and collaborator Sandra Gould Ford in Pittsburgh on April 8, 2024. Frazier, perhaps America’s foremost social documentary photographer, features her hometown, the Pittsburgh satellite town of Braddock, at length in a new survey exhibition, “Monuments of Solidarity,” at the Museum of Modern Art. (Gioncarlo Valentine/The New York Times)
Seen in her camera’s viewfinder, LaToya Ruby Frazier takes a self-portrait at the site where a bridge named after her family once stood in Braddock, Pa. on April 8, 2024. Frazier, perhaps America’s foremost social documentary photographer, features her hometown at length in a new survey exhibition, “Monuments of Solidarity,” at the Museum of Modern Art. (Gioncarlo Valentine/The New York Times)
DALLAS (KCTV) – A Dallas police report outlines what an injured photographer said happened inside a club during an after hours party early Monday morning.
Police released the incident report to KCTV5 three days after the Dallas Morning News and WFAA linked Chiefs wide receiver Rashee Rice to the reported assault inside the club. KCTV5 has not been able to independently confirm those details and the redacted police report does not publicly identify anyone involved in the incident.
According to the police report, officers responded to a disturbance call around 3:30 a.m. on May 6.
The man who filed the complaint identified himself as a photographer. He told officers that he left Lit Kitchen and Lounge for an after hours party and left around 1:30 a.m.
The photographer told police the man, that the Dallas Morning News and WFAA identified as Rice, sent him a message on Instagram as he drove away from the club. The photographer said Rice asked him to return to the club, which he did.
Rice asked the photographer to look at his phone, according to the police report. The photographer told officers that he believed Rice wanted to hire him to take pictures.
The photographer said Rice punched him in the left side of his face as he looked down at the cell phone. The incident report said the photographer suffered an “apparent minor injury” and experienced “swelling on the jaws.”
The remainder of the incident report is redacted.
A spokesperson for the Dallas Police Department also told KCTV5 the department does not identify any suspects unless they are charged with a crime. At this point, charges have not been filed in the assault case.
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A Celebration of 1970s Gay Culture
THE WERK
2210 1st Avenue S., St. Petersburg, Florida
May 17 – June 30, 2024
Opening Reception: Friday, May 17, 2024, 5 – 9pm
Cocktail St. Pete
2355 Central Avenue, Saint Petersburg, Florida
FIRE ISLAND CLASSIC TEA DANCES
Sat., May 18 & Sun., May 19 from 4pm – 10pm
Download a PDF of the printed booklet.
For more information contact thewerkgallery@gmail.com
With great pride, THE WERK, and Fire Island Pines Historical Preservation Society present FIRE ISLAND The Photography of Meryl Meisler, a celebration of 1970s Gay Culture. Meryl Meisler captured the sexy, free-spirited, post-Stonewall/pre-AIDS summers on Fire Island with her camera in the late 1970s. The celebration begins with an opening reception on Friday, May 17th at THE WERK and will continue all weekend with FIRE ISLAND CLASSIC TEA DANCES at Cocktail St. Pete.
FLASHBACK August 4, 1962: Shocking news!
Meryl and friends at Girl Scout Camp Edey in Bayport, Long Island, New York, were stunned—Marilyn Monroe was found dead. The femme fatale blonde bombshell was gone. A fairy tale came to an end.
A few days later, the Camp Edey Girl Scouts began whispering about another fairy tale. During a nearby beach sleepover, the girls told stories of Fire Island, a place in the ocean where naked fairies lived in little houses with cute names like “Shirley Temple.” Meryl’s curiosity piqued; she looked across the Great South Bay for the island with naked fairies but could not see a thing.
Summer 1977: Partying at Studio 54 in Manhattan, Meryl befriended a trans woman named Alexa, who introduced her to Barnett, a Manhattan beautician. Barnett was recovering from a breakup with his business and romantic partner. Enjoying Meryl’s company, he invited her for a weekend at his beach house, “SURVIVOR” in Cherry Grove, Fire Island. Meryl brought along her disco buddy JudiJupiter. Fortunately, Meryl also brought her camera.
The wild scene quickly awoke Meryl’s dormant childhood memory—this was THE Fire Island, the land of naked fairies. Barnett welcomed Meryl and JudiJupiter to come again anytime, and they did, many summer weekends until Barnett sold “SURVIVOR” in 1979. Fire Island was eye candy for a young lesbian photographer with a quirky eye. Back in her apartment darkroom, she developed the film, made just two prints, and tucked the work away until decades later. Many of the images in this show have never been previously exhibited.
Meryl’s black-and-white photographs capture the queer communities of Cherry Grove and The Pines at what many consider the golden era of unbridled sexual liberation. Friends, families, lovers, young people, elders, drag queens, fashionistas, butches, femmes, straight & sassy, bikinied, high-heeled and barefooted disco dancers, boaters, nude sun-bathers, fun-loving festive people of all diverse backgrounds, sexual and gender identities, ethnicities, races, colors and creeds rejoicing together on Fire Island.
American Families
Polka Galerie
Exhibition continues through May 25, 2024
12, rue Saint-Gilles, 75003 Paris, France
For more information contact@polkagalerie.com
Family photography has marked the history of photography as the SLR camera and the 35mm reel became common consumer items. Four American photographers have made it the matrix of their work, between long-term documentary reporting, daily chronicles, and bittersweet fables. Their names are Marianna Rothen, Meryl Meisler, Peggy Levison Nolan, and Shelby Lee Adams. The “American Families” exhibition brings them together on the walls of the gallery from March 22 to May 25.
SALAMANCA — Come to the Ohi:yo’ Art Market this Saturday at the Seneca Allegany Resort and Casino to celebrate Native American resiliency through art and culture. The event is free and open to all from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Presented by the Onöhsagwë:de’ Cultural Center and Visit Seneca Nation at the casino’s event center, the art market will allow visitors to experience a juried art show featuring the fine works of approximately 50 Native American artists from nations all across the United States and Canada. Before the public event, an artist will be awarded a $7,000 Best of Show prize.
The day’s events will also include Hodinöhsö:ni’ social dancing at noon and 2 p.m., a plant sale by the Seneca Nation’s Gakwi:yo:h Farms, programming by the Seneca Language Department as well as a multi-faceted children’s area and a demonstration space called Dwahšönih, which means “we make it together.”
Dwahšönih is an interactive pop-up family area focused on Haudenosaunee cultural-arts-based learning for all ages. Visitors will work alongside artists and makers from the community to make objects to contribute to a larger piece of art that will evolve throughout the day. Cornhusk flowers will slowly form a wreath. Splints added by different visitors will come together to create a basket. Sewn squares will become a quilt and individual paintings will join together to make a mural, while everyone can enjoy eating traditional foods.
The central area of the structure will create a safe space for the smallest guests to play and explore while being encircled by artwork of cornhusk dolls dancing eskanye, as imagined by Randee Spruce. Facilitators include artists and makers Angie Ferguson, Bernadette Scott, Chandra Maracle, Cheryl Graham, Courtlyn Jones, Dan Hill, Holly John, Kira Bloxsom, Lauren Jimerson, Leeora White and Marissa Manitowabi.
“When the Seneca Nation of Indians opened the Onohsagwe:de’ Cultural Center in 2018, part of our vision was to utilize the center as a true hub where we could celebrate and continue to grow public awareness of Native culture and traditions on a larger scale,” said Seneca Nation President Rickey Armstrong, Sr. “The Ohi:yo’ Art Market is an exciting step along that path.”
Hayden Haynes, director of the Onöhsagwë:de’ Cultural Center, said organizers hope the new juried art market will become an annual event that will blossom into a leading destination for years to come.
“We want Native artists and our friends and neighbors from near and far to come together and join us in Ohi:yo’,” he said. “By sharing our creativity and works with one another, we can celebrate Native culture and resiliency through artistic expression.”
The Ohi:yo’ Art Market builds on the success of a juried art competition show, established in 2018, which the Seneca Nation hosted for Haudenosaunee artists. By inviting all native artists to attend and participate, organizers hope to develop the market as one of the premier art markets in the northeast.
Haynes said those shows were competitions while this new Ohi:yo’ Art Market event is more about Native American artists coming from all over to sell their art. He said, “In a lot of ways the competition is an incentive from not only a monetary standpoint but also from a recognition standpoint.
“Part of the mission of the cultural center is to create a major Native American art market in the northeast because there really isn’t anything like that here for all Native American people,” he continued. “Out west, they have the Santa Fe Indian Market in New Mexico, the Heard Museum Guild Indian Fair & Market in Phoenix, Arizona, and all those big shows that people come from all over the world to see. So, we are basically trying to establish a major art market in the northeast.”
Because the northeast doesn’t have Santa Fe and Phoenix weather, Haynes said the best option is to utilize the event center at the casino. He said it’s a beautiful space to have the art market, rain or shine.
The Seneca Allegany Resort and Casino is located at 777 Seneca Allegany Boulevard in Salamanca. For information, visit senecamuseum.org or call (716) 945-1760.
LIBERTYVILLE – World-renowned National Geographic photographer Joel Sartore will be the featured speaker at a May 17 gala benefiting the Lake County Forest Preserves.
Sartore will delve into his ambitious National Geographic Photo Ark project dedicated to documenting every species living in the world’s zoos, aquariums and wildlife sanctuaries.
His goal is to create a photo archive of global diversity to inspire action through education, motivating people to help protect these animals for future generations. The award-winning photographer anticipates the completed project will encompass portraits of 20,000 species, including birds, fish, mammals, reptiles, amphibians and invertebrates.
The evening gala, which starts at 5:30 p.m., features a cocktail reception, seated dinner and a photo-filled presentation. The Preservation Foundation, the charitable partner of the Lake County Forest Preserves, is holding the event at Independence Grove Forest Preserve in Libertyville.
The business casual gala kicks off a significant fundraising campaign in Lake County. The foundation is striving to secure $20 million in endowment funds by the end of 2025 to support the forest preserves. Collaboratively, donations from individuals, corporations and foundations provide a continuous source of funding to ensure restored land remains healthy and resilient.
The interest generated from the endowment will annually offer $800,000 to support essential land management tasks. The funding will safeguard decades of investments, comprising both public and private funds, dedicated to the restoration of the forest preserves, Preservation Foundation President Nels Leutwiler said in a news release.
“The endowment will also provide a steady source of matching funds necessary to secure outside grants and donations in order to advance future projects,” Leutwiler said.
Event organizers said Sartore is an ideal choice to inaugurate the fundraising campaign, given his alignment with the mission and conservation principles of the Forest Preserves.
The National Geographic Photo Ark is a multiyear effort to raise awareness about endangered species and conservation efforts. Sartore’s striking portraits of animals have drawn attention to the plight of many species facing extinction due to habitat loss, climate change and other human-induced factors.
Sartore was a newspaper photographer before focusing on wildlife photography. He often uses a simple black or white background in his portraits to focus the viewer’s attention solely on the animal subject. His minimalist approach highlights the beauty and diversity of each species he photographs.
“As stewards of the environment, we are thrilled to welcome Joel Sartore to kick off our fundraising campaign,” Executive Director Alex Ty Kovach said in the release. “His dedication to the preservation of wildlife through his National Geographic project resonates deeply with our mission to protect and conserve the biodiversity of Lake County.”
To buy tickets or a table, visit LCFPD.org/gala or call 847-968-3110.
Immersive screening of the 5th VH AWARD. Image courtesy of Ars Electronica
Since its establishment in 2016, the VH AWARD, hosted by Hyundai Motor Group, has offered a platform for emerging media artists to showcase their artistic expression and discuss diverse cultural and socio-political issues.
Artists interested in applying for the 6th VH AWARD can submit proposals to produce audiovisual screen-based artworks that may include but aren’t limited to video art, moving images, film, motion graphics, computer animation, gaming, and more. Individuals or collectives whose work engages with Asia may now submit applications through the VH AWARD website.
“The VH AWARD is globally recognized for its boundless exploration of participating artists from the Asian region, as well as those of Asian descent and diasporas from around the world,” said Dooeun Choi, art director of Hyundai Motor. “We eagerly anticipate the active participation of artists who embrace diversity and inclusion in shaping the past, present, and future of Asia.”
In 2021, the VH AWARD expanded its eligibility beyond South Korean artists to include those whose works creatively portray and question the vast array of issues across Asia. This expansion received a tremendous response, attracting diverse participants and remarkably enhancing the award’s stature as a global accolade. The award is gaining prominence as a significant platform for emerging media artists who engage with the context of Asia.
Screening at Vision Hall. Image courtesy of Hyundai Motor Group VH AWARD
For the 6th VH AWARD in 2024, applications will be reviewed by an international panel of jurors, who will select finalists based on their originality and aesthetics, compelling conception and innovation, quality of presentation, and sophisticated employment of technology. The jury members include accomplished artworld professionals such as Christl Baur, festival director of Ars Electronica; Sabine Himmelsbach, director of House of Electronic Arts; Martin Honzik, chief executive officer of Festival X; Sook-kyung Lee, director of the Whitworth; and Roderick Schrock, curator and executive director of Eyebeam.
The five finalists will each receive a $25,000 grant to produce new artworks. Additionally, through a partnership with Eyebeam, a prominent nonprofit art and technology center based in New York City, the finalists will be invited to an online residency program. Led by artists and curators from Eyebeam, the program will occur before the submission of their final works.
The recipient of the Grand Prix will be announced in June 2025 and receive an additional grant of $25,000. All works will be exhibited across various art institutions and platforms around the globe, including the Vision Hall of Hyundai Motor Group in Yongin, South Korea; the House of Electronic Arts in Basel, Switzerland; the Ars Electronica Festival in Linz, Austria; the National Art Council in Singapore; and other venues.
The call for entries closes at 11 a.m. EDT/12 a.m. KST on July 5, 2024. Applications with the required materials must be submitted online via the official VH AWARD website.
For more information, visit vhaward.com.
Installation view of the 5th VH AWARD. Image courtesy of Museum MACAN
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