Lorraine OâGrady outpaced the culture for years. In Brooklyn, it finally catches up
By Murray Whyte Globe Staff,Updated March 17, 2021, 12:59 p.m.
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A photograph from Lorraine O Grady s 1983 Art Is. performance.Lorraine OâGrady/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
BROOKLYN â Coming to art as a later-in-life fourth or fifth act, Lorraine OâGrady has joked that she âonly had time for masterpieces,â which doesnât surprise.
Now 86, sheâs only ever made the most of her time. She was an intelligence analyst for the US State Department (during the Cuban Missile Crisis, no less); the owner of a Chicago translation agency (a keepsake from this era,
Pierre Cardin at the Brooklyn Museum Editorial Staff
Photograph by Jonathan Dorado, courtesy of Brooklyn Museum.
The French fashion designer Pierre Cardin once said: “The
clothes that I prefer are those that I invent for a life that doesn’t exist
yet the world of tomorrow.” Though he has evolved and changed looks many times
over the course of his long and continuing career, Cardin will always be
associated with his avant-garde Space Age designs of the early 1960s the sleek,
body-hugging unitards; his simple, geometric silhouettes in vivid colors. To
visit the new exhibition
Pierre Cardin:
Future Fashion at the Brooklyn Museum is to be immersed in a mod,