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Lorraine O’Grady Still Won’t Play It Safe

by Ela Bittencourt June 7, 2022June 7, 2022

Much like her writing, O’Grady’s photomontages pressure binaries until something other, something “both/and” emerges.

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Lorraine O’Grady’s First Retrospective Is Both Invigorating and Overdue

by Alexandra M. Thomas March 23, 2021March 23, 2021

O’Grady’s rebellious spirit has roused the mainstream art world for close to 50 years, and her latest exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum is no exception.

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Lorraine O’Grady, in All of Her Literary Brilliance

by Alexandra M. Thomas November 16, 2020November 18, 2020

The first book to offer a comprehensive overview of O’Grady’s writings, Writing in Space 1973 — 2019 affirms both the range and reach of the artist’s impact upon an art world that has only belatedly recognized her.

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This Biden-Harris Campaign Ad Is Inspired by Artist Lorraine O’Grady

by Hakim Bishara November 9, 2020November 9, 2020

A new video advertisement from the president-elect references O’Grady’s 1983 performance “Art Is…”

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Notes on Living a Translated Life

by Lorraine O'Grady October 11, 2020November 5, 2020

From the John Singer Sargent frontal nude painting of McKeller in Boston’s MFA, I’d imagined Thomas as tall and slender. Looking more closely, I can see that even 100 years ago a body like Thomas’s was not accidental.

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How Lorraine O’Grady Has Challenged a Segregated Art World

by Chase Quinn December 3, 2018December 3, 2018

O’Grady has persistently raised questions about the lack of black representation in art and in the art world. But her latest exhibition represents a shift.

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Lorraine O’Grady Stars in a New Music Video by Anohni

by Jillian Steinhauer December 6, 2016December 22, 2016

“Marrow” consists simply of O’Grady lip-synching to Anohni’s three-minute song of the same title against a black background.

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A Walk Through the World of Lorraine O’Grady

by Heather Kapplow December 31, 2015January 4, 2016

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — When visiting an art exhibit, there’s a temptation to start at the entryway and work your way through it following the path established by the curator.

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In and Out of Frame: Lorraine O’Grady’s “Art Is…”

by Louis Bury September 5, 2015September 22, 2015

Like a Choose Your Own Adventure story or a game of Mad Libs, the elliptical title of Lorraine O’Grady’s 1983 performance piece, “Art Is…,” creates space, playful and inviting, for structured audience participation.

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Between Carnival and Performance Art: Nine Artists on Masquerade

by Charlie Tatum June 1, 2015June 4, 2015

NEW ORLEANS — It’s astonishing that in 2015 a group exhibition of nine artists of color can still be impressive based on statistics and context alone.

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Baudelaire, Michael Jackson, and Modernism

by Jillian Steinhauer August 29, 2014August 31, 2014

One of my favorite pieces included in Radical Presence: Black Performance in Contemporary Art at the Studio Museum in Harlem earlier this year was Adam Pendleton’s “Lorraine O’Grady: A Portrait” (2012).

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Animating the Archive: Black Performance Art’s Radical Presence

by Alexis Clements October 10, 2013October 12, 2013

Radical Presence gives a great taste of some of the work done by black artists working in performance over the past five decades. And one of the best things about it is that it’s not just a static archive.

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