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Our Culture Mag, 2026

Destiny Is a Rose, on view at Hauser & Wirth Downtown Los Angeles through August 16, 2026, presents more than 80 works from the collection of Eileen Harris Norton, marking fifty years since her first acquisition in 1976. The exhibition celebrates her longstanding commitment to artists of color, women artists, and those connected to California, featuring works by Kerry James Marshall, Mark Bradford, Kara Walker, Carrie Mae Weems, and Lorraine O’Grady, among others.

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Mlle Bourgeoise Noire and Feminism, 2007

WACK! audio statement, published in Art Lies #54, Summer 2007 — For WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution, the first major museum exhibit of feminist art, at the Museum of Contemporary Art in L.A., O’Grady was asked to record an audio statement for the cell-phone tour to explain how her piece related to the show’s theme.

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Basquiat and the Black Art World, 1993

Artforum International — O’Grady’s column on the occasion of Basquiat’s first retrospective, at the Whitney Museum, was the first to examine Basquiat’s relation to the black art world. It discusses her personal relationship to Jean-Michel and analyzes the mainstream art world’s “primitivist” responses to his work.

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Artnews, 2025

Hauser & Wirth Downtown Los Angeles will present Destiny Is a Rose: The Eileen Harris Norton Collection, an exhibition of around 80 works from the influential collector’s holdings. Opening during Frieze Los Angeles, the show features major works by artists including Kerry James Marshall, Lorraine O’Grady, Alma Thomas, and David Hammons, highlighting Harris Norton’s longstanding commitment to supporting artists and shaping the contemporary art landscape.

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Observer, 2025

After eight years of renovation, the Studio Museum in Harlem reopens in a new 82,000-square-foot building designed by David Adjaye. Rooted in Harlem’s architectural fabric and filled with light, the museum expands its gallery space while reaffirming its historic role as a cultural anchor celebrating Black art, history, and community.

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The New York Times, 2025

The reopening of the Studio Museum in Harlem, after seven years of construction, arrives with dazzling alumni and collection exhibitions. Among the highlights is a 40-image photographic work, Art Is…, by the late, great Lorraine O’Grady. The series places viewers along Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Boulevard during the 1983 African American Day Parade, inviting us to witness the neighborhood’s vibrancy through O’Grady’s incisive lens.

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Artnet, 2022

Folasade Ologundudu interviews Linda Goode-Bryant on her gallery project, Just Above Midtown. The gallery space hosted exhibitions for emerging artists of color from 1974 to 1986. The two discuss MoMA’s acquisition of the JAM archive. Goode-Bryant expresses that while she feels validated for the work that she and her collaborators did, she is also considering the danger of ‘cultural co-option’ that may arise with archiving her project at a predominately white arts institution.

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Barbara London, 2021

Independent curator Barbara London interviews Lorraine O’Grady on her involvement at the gallery Just Above Midtown, speaking in detail about her work “Art Is…” and what comes next for the artist following her retrospective Both/And and the Covid-19 pandemic. London shares her enthusiasm for O’Grady’s new performance persona pictured in her work “Announcement Card (Seated Palmate).”

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The Drama Review, 2018

Drawing on the Black Feminist scholarship of Hortense Spillers, Beth Capper interprets O’Grady’s performances as representing life lived in the “interstice” between two worlds. The rigorously academic essay situates O’Grady’s work in a lineage of radical Black artists (David Hammons and Jean-Michel Basquiat, to name two) who deal with the limits of language and the politics of visual representation.

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Lorraine O’Grady and Juliana Huxtable, Part 2, 2016

Part two of a two-part discussion between artists Lorraine O’Grady and Juliana Huxtable. The dialogue took place by phone from O’Grady and Huxtable’s respective studios in New York City. This is part two of a two-part discussion and the first time the artists have spoken.

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Brooklyn Rail, 2016

Lorraine O'Grady with Jarrett Earnest — In this cover feature, her most important published interview to date, O'Grady discusses Flannery O'Connor as a philosopher of the margins, the archival website, working out emotions via Egyptian sculpture, Michael Jackson's genius, and feminism as a plural noun.

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