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On Thursday, February 25, as part of Printed Matter’s Virtual Art Book Fair, Paper Monument guest editors Daisy Nam and Christopher K. Ho spoke to contributors Mel Chin, Aruna D’Souza, Hyperlink Press, and Patrick Jaojoco about Paper Monument’s new anthology,
Best! Letters from Asian Americans in the Arts.
“BOTH/AND” is the title of Lorraine O’Grady’s first major retrospective, curated by Catherine Morris and Aruna D’Souza and opening this month at the Brooklyn Museum in New York. But it is also the key to the artist’s exhilarating proposition: that the best path through the tepid “either/or” structure subtending Western hegemony is the cultivation of a hybrid and nonhierarchical “both/and” approach. “The governing aim of my work is to undermine the concept of opposites,” Lorraine O’Grady wrote in 1982; few artists have furnished such fruitful manifestations of their ideals.On the occasion of this
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Had her life been more conventional, Lorraine O’Grady would have been, that Thursday in June 1980, at Wellesley College for her 25th class reunion.
Instead, she was donning a dress hand-stitched from 180 pairs of white gloves accessorized with a tiara, sash and cat-o’-nine-tails and heading to the gallery Just Above Midtown, to carry out a guerrilla-theater intervention.
O’Grady, a daughter of Jamaican immigrants in Boston, had a picaresque itinerary already. An economics graduate, she had worked for the Labor and State Departments, including as an intelligence analyst in the period leading up to the Cuban Missile Crisis; attempted a novel in Europe; dropped out of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop; run a translation agency in Chicago; been a New York rock critic. Two marriages, both brief, were over.
Lorraine OâGrady, Still Cutting Into the Culture
And at 86, the pioneering conceptual artist isnât done yet. Sheâs getting her first retrospective ever, at the Brooklyn Museum.
Lorraine OâGradyâs retrospective opens March 5 at the Brooklyn Museum. âIâm working on the skin of the culture and Iâm making incisions,â she says.Credit.Lelanie Foster for The New York Times
Feb. 19, 2021
Had her life been more conventional, Lorraine OâGrady would have been, that Thursday in June 1980, at Wellesley College for her 25th class reunion.
Instead, she was donning a dress hand-stitched from 180 pairs of white gloves â accessorized with a tiara, sash and cat-oâ-nine-tails â and heading to the gallery Just Above Midtown, to carry out a guerrilla-theater intervention.