Sarah Cascone, “Editors’ Picks: 17 Things Not to Miss in New York’s Art World This Week.” Artnet News, Nov 5, 2018.
17. “Lorraine O’Grady: Cutting Out CONYT” at Alexander Gray Associates
In 1977, Lorraine O’Grady made 26 found newspaper poems from 26 straight Sunday issues of the New York Times. Over 40 years later, she’s revisited each work in the “Cutting Out the New York Times” series, cutting apart her collages and rearranging the words to create new “haiku diptychs.” O’Grady believes the new work, informed by decades of additional life experience, “embraces the mysterious intertwinings of narrative and politics,
post-blackness and blackness in a way that ‘Cutting Out the New York Times’ could not accomplish or even imagine.”
Location: Alexander Gray Associates, 510 West 26th Street
Price: Free
Time: Tuesday–Saturday, 10 a.m.–6 p.m.
—Sarah Cascone