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Judith Wilson, 1991
Lorraine O’Grady: Critical Interventions
Catalogue essay written for O’Grady’s first gallery solo exhibition, “Lorraine O’Grady,” INTAR Gallery, 420 W 42nd Street, New York City, January 21 – February 22, 1991. more
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Andrea Miller-Keller, 1995
Lorraine O’Grady: The Space Between
Brochure article written for the one-person exhibit “Lorraine O’Grady / MATRIX 127,” The Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT, May 21 – Aug 20, 1995. more
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Anne Higonnet, 1996
Hypocrite Lecteur, Mon Semblable, Mon Frère! Hybrid Viewer, My Difference, Lorraine O’Grady!
Catalogue essay for the group exhibit New Histories, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA. 1996. Lia Gangitano and Steven Nelson, eds. more
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Johanna Drucker, 2005
Sweet Dreams: Lorraine O’Grady’s Art Is. . .
Discussion of O’Grady’s performance ART IS. . . in a book examining “complicit art.” Johanna Drucker, Sweet Dreams, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005. pp. 82-84, 87-88. more
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Michele Wallace, 1994
Black Female Spectatorship and the Dilemma of Tokenism
An article in dialogue with O’Grady’s “Olympia’s Maid: Reclaiming Black Female Subjectivity.” In Generations: Academic Feminists in Dialogue, Devoney Looser and E. Ann Kaplan, eds. University of Minnesota Press, 1997. more
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Courtney R. Baker, 2000
The Art of Reading: Postcolonial Bodies and Strategic Illegibility
Analytic reading of two “works” — Gayatri Spivak’s description of her clothing, and Lorraine O’Grady’s Flowers of Evil and Good. Unpublished paper read to a symposium at Louisiana State University, March 2000. more
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Calvin Reid, 1993
A West Indian Yankee in Queen Nefertiti’s Court
Article in New Observations #97: COLOR. September/October 1993, pp. 5-9. Special issue, edited by ADRIAN PIPER. more
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Kymberly N. Pinder, 2000
Biraciality and Nationhood in Contemporary Art
An article on work by artists responding to racial hybridity that features a discussion of O’Grady’s diptych, The Clearing. Published in Third Text: Critical Perspectives on Art and Culture 53, Winter 2000-01, pp 43–54. more
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Thomas Feucht-Haviar, 2005
Lorraine O’Grady’s “Olympia’s Maid: Reclaiming Black Female Subjectivity”
Seminar paper on a need for subjectivity and agency to restore critical judgement in the face of knowledge acquisition and production that are compromised forms of power relations. Studio Art, UC Irvine, 2005. more
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African American Review, 2005
William Gleason. Book review.
Review by Princeton University professor of 2002 anthology edited by Kimberly Wallace-Sanders. Citing quotes from "Olympia's Maid" by two different authors, calls O'Grady's article a "critical frame for the volume's main goals." more
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gawker.com, 2007
The Only Black Model in Italian 'Vogue'? Actually A Maid
Serendipitous post on absence of black models in fashion magazines, plus comments section — one of which quotes O’Grady’s “Olympia’s Maid” — show the article’s concerns remain alive and well today. more
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Carol Dougherty, 1994
The Object of History and the History of Objects
Handout written by a professor of Greek and Latin for the premiere of O’Grady’s installation Miscegenated Family Album in Body As Measure, The Davis Museum and Cultural Center, Wellesley, MA, Oct-Nov 1994. more
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Arati Rao, 1994
Remarks on Miscegenated Family Album
Excerpts from paper for “Diaspora and Hybridism: Paradigms for a Global 21st Century,” a faculty symposium on issues emerging from viewing Miscegenated Family Album in Body As Measure, Davis Museum, Wellesley, MA, Oct 1994. more
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Courtney Baker, 1996
A Legacy of Silence
Handout on the historical and critical treatment of Jeanne Duval, accompanying “Studies for Flower of Evil and Good” in New Histories, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA. Oct 23, 1996–Jan 5, 1997. Curator: Milena Kalinovska. more
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Irene Cheng, 1996
“White Skin, Black Masks”: Fetishism and Les Demoiselles d’Avignon
Handout on O’Grady’s “unmasking” as a response to the critical
tradition of fetishizing the fetish. Written to accompany “Studies for Flower of Evil and Good” in New Histories, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA. Oct 23,1996–Jan 5, 1997.
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Jay Lopez, 2007
DJ JJ Lopez’s email invite to the Persistent opening at Artpace, San Antonio, TX
The founder of the “diggindeepquartet” DJ collective and lead DJ of the closed Davenport Lounge in San Antonio — and O’Grady’s collaborator on the installation — emails a description of Persistent to his list. more
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Art Institute of Chicago, 2008
MISCEGENATED FAMILY ALBUM
In 2008, the AIC became the first museum to purchase the full Miscegenated Family Album installation. The initial exhibit was that summer, in a Permanent Collection gallery shared with the work of Felix Gonzalez-Torres. more
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Lucy Lippard, 1988
Art Is . . .
Highlighted box review, taking a retrospective look at O’Grady’s 1983 performance Art Is . . .. In “Sniper’s Nest,” Z Magazine, July-August 1988, p 102 more
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ARTS Magazine, 1991
New York in Review
A review of O’Grady’s first solo exhibit at INTAR Gallery, NYC, that focuses on her work in performance. Selected from Gretchen Faust’s column, "New York in Review," ARTS Magazine, vol 65, no 8, April 1991, p 98. more
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The Hartford Advocate, 1995
Shadow Boxing with the Status Quo
“Lorraine O’Grady, The Space Between, MATRIX/127,” The Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT, May 21 – Aug 20, 1995. Review discusses this two-part installation exhibit: Miscegenated Family Album and Mlle Bourgeoise Noire. more
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Dominique Nahas, 1998
Studies for Flowers of Evil and Good
Reviews O’Grady’s first NYC show of digital cibachrome studies for this work, in Review, vol 4, no 3, October 15, 1998, pp 6-7. more
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ArtNet.com Magazine, 1998
Les Fleurs Duval by Franklin Sirmans
Lorraine O'Grady, "Studies: For a Work-in-Progress on Charles Baudelaire, the first Modernist Poet, and his Haitian-born wife Jeanne Duval," Sep 12 - Oct 31, 1998, at Thomas Erben Gallery, NYC. Review published on the internet. more
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San Antonio Express-News, 2007
Exhibit reflects downtown dance club
Daily newspaper review of O’Grady’s video installation Persistent, at Artpace, San Antonio, TX, July 2007. A work on dance, music, economics, and race that recalls O’Grady’s own past as a club dancer and rock critic. more
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Diva Dee, 2007
The Juice Online, Stories of Hip-Hop: Lorraine O'Grady
A review of the Persistent installation at Artpace by a former patron of the Davenport Lounge, the subject of O’Grady’s piece. Posted by “Diva Dee,” variously described as a DJ, college student, and blogger, on an entertainment news blog geared to black San Antonio. more
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Holland Cotter, 2008
Miscegenated Family Album, at Alexander Gray Associates, NYC
The first New York Times review of a solo show by O’Grady. Lead review in the Friday “Art in Review” section, with a photo of “Sisters I.” more
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Modern Painters, 2008
Miscegenated Family Album, at Alexander Gray Associates, NYC
Discussion of framing as a technique of meaning in O’Grady’s conceptual photo-installation. more
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Johanna Burton, 2008
Artforum, Miscegenated Family Album, Alexander Gray Associates
Artforum’s first review of a solo exhibit by O’Grady. Discusses the first New York showing of the full Miscegenated Family Album installation, at Alexander Gray Associates, NYC, September 10 – October 11, 2008 more
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LIVE performance 5, 1980/81
“Dialogues,” Just Above Midtown Gallery
Patricia S. Jones discusses a downtown gallery performance series at Just Above Midtown, NYC, Oct 1980 in a late 70s-early 80s annual journal. Article makes special note of O’Grady’s first performance of Nefertiti/Devonia Evangeline more
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Boston Globe, 1994
Welleley’s ‘Body’ also has a brain
Review of The Body As Measure, The Davis Museum and Cultural Center, Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA, Sep 23 – Dec 18, 1994. Refers to O’Grady’s first exhibition of Miscegenated Family Album as “the most extraordinary work in the show.” more
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The New York Times, 2006
Art In Review, by Holland Cotter
A review of three simultaneous shows presented by the Daniel Reich Gallery, NYC, which singles out O’Grady for special mention in the third. more
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The New York Times, 2007
‘Wack!’ The Art of Feminism as It First Took Shape
Opening of the first-ever museum show of feminist art at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. Holland Cotter’s feature-length review was illustrated by four works, including Mlle Bourgeoise Noire. more
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whitehot magazine, 2007
Role Play: Feminist Art Revisited 1960–1980, at Galerie Lelong
Review of a group show in which O’Grady’s interventions in the guise of Mlle Bourgeoise Noire are described as a precursor to the work of the Guerrilla Girls and others. more
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Holland Cotter feature, 2008
The New York Times, "The Topic Is Race; the Art Is Fearless"
A dicussion of black avant-garde art in the context of Barack Obama’s campaign for the presidency of the United States. more
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Vancouver Sun, 2008
WACK! Feminist Art Strikes Back
Feature article with photo describes O’Grady presenting her work on the artist gallery tour during the opening of WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution at the Vancouver Art Gallery on October 5. more
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art Das Kunstmagazin, Berlin, 2008(9)
On Re.act.feminism @ Akademie der Künste, Berlin
Review of feminist art show with 25 artists in exhibition, plus 80 in video archive, makes special mention of O’Grady and three other artists, including Valie Export, Yoko Ono, and Gabrielle Stötzer. more
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The New York Times, 2008
Year-in-art review: "Out With the Fat, in With the Hungry"
The Times 2008 year-in-art review featured O’Grady as one of the artists proving that feminist art is still “the source.” Photos of the Miscegenated Family Album installation and the “Sisters I” diptych, in the companion online slideshow, were two of the 20-image total. more
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