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Lorraine O'Grady, Still Cutting Into the Culture – Repeating Islands


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. ....

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Lorraine O'Grady, Still Cutting Into the Culture - The New York Times


Lorraine O’Grady, Still Cutting Into the Culture
And at 86, the pioneering conceptual artist isn’t done yet. She’s getting her first retrospective ever, at the Brooklyn Museum.
Lorraine O’Grady’s retrospective opens March 5 at the Brooklyn Museum. “I’m working on the skin of the culture and I’m making incisions,” she says.Credit.Lelanie Foster for The New York Times
Feb. 19, 2021
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. ....

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