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Artforum, 2018

Lorraine O’Grady’s long engagement with the diptych comes into focus in her collage series Cutting Out CONYT (1977/2017), a radical distillation of her earliest work, Cutting Out the New York Times. Reworked into what she calls “haiku diptychs,” the series is featured in two solo exhibitions this fall—at Alexander Gray Associates in New York and at the SCAD Museum of Art in Savannah—as well as in her solo show at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

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WGBH, 2018

Lorraine O’Grady’s career began with bold disruption. Her 1980 performance Mlle Bourgeoise Noire, storming New York galleries in a gown of white gloves and demanding, “Black art must take more risks!”, set the tone for decades of boundary-pushing work. Her recent resurgence includes the 2017 Wellesley Alumnae Achievement Award and the solo exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

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