Sean Landers, SWM, 1994
One of three cover articles on Landers, Artforum, April 1994 — By mutual consent, this was O’Grady’s last article for Artforum. It was also not included in the Sean Landers gallery press kit.
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WAC (Womens Action Coalition), 1992
Front-of-book feature, Artforum, October 1992 — O’Grady was one of less than a handful of women of color active in the Womens Action Coalition. WAC had been begun by women in the New York art world in response to Anita Hill’s denigration during the congressional hearing on Clarence Thomas’s nomination to the Supreme Court.
Black Women Film Directors, 1992
Film column, Artforum, January 1992 — Written during a tentative “break-through” year for black women film directors, the article was a search for answers to the question, “Why are there so few even now?” It found the situation for black women to be an exaggeration of that for women in general.
The Wailers and Bruce Springsteen, 1973
First published in Max's Kansas City: Art, Glamour, Rock and Roll, 2010 — A piece written by O’Grady in 1973 for the Village Voice, but rejected by her editor because it was "too soon for these two" and finally published in 2010 by Abrams Image, reviews the night the Wailers with Bob Marley led in for Bruce Springsteen and the E-Street Band.