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Art Fag City, 2012

Alana Chloe Esposito, Unnatural Attitudes — A sensitive summary of O'Grady's biography and its effect on her art, Esposito's piece sees the work as emerging from the artist's pressure to understand and become herself.

Mlle Bourgeoise Noire video art diaspora mother art-world racism The Whitney Museum performance art Girls Latin School Michael Jackson Landscape (Western Hemisphere) black female subjectivity BodyGround The First and the Last of the Modernists 2012 Just Above Midtown Charles Baudelaire and Jeanne Duval autobiography the Caribbean

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Calvin Reid, 1993

A West Indian Yankee in Queen Nefertiti’s Court — The first critical article on O'Grady's work as a whole, and still one of the best. Published in New Observations #97: COLOR. September/October 1993. Special issue, edited by ADRIAN PIPER.

black female subjectivity The Fir-Palm Wellesley College The Clearing Girls Latin School Nefertiti/Devonia Evangeline INTAR Gallery hybridity art-world racism Lilith Sends Out the Destroyers Just Above Midtown Lucy Lippard Gaze and Dream black avant-garde performance art autobiography Adrian Piper Mlle Bourgeoise Noire 1993 Art Is... the Caribbean diaspora Ancient Egypt writing in space mother

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Judith Wilson, 1991

Lorraine O’Grady: Critical Interventions — Catalogue essay for O'Grady's first solo exhibit: "Lorraine O'Grady," photomontages, INTAR Gallery, 420 W 42nd St, NYC, Jan 21-Feb 22, 1991. Includes authoritative account of artist's earlier career.

1991 black female subjectivity becoming an artist Adrian Piper the Black and White Show the Caribbean Just Above Midtown western cultural hegemony black avant-garde mother The Dual Soul Judith Wilson Rivers First Draft Wellesley College autobiography Girls Latin School INTAR Gallery performance art

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