{"id":19638,"date":"2024-12-15T13:47:14","date_gmt":"2024-12-15T19:47:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/?p=19638"},"modified":"2025-01-02T10:08:06","modified_gmt":"2025-01-02T16:08:06","slug":"more-on-lorraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/15\/more-on-lorraine\/","title":{"rendered":"that we are all human"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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\u201cArt Is . . . (Girl Pointing)\u201d (1983\/2009). Like so many of O\u2019Grady\u2019s works, the performance undermined multiple binaries \u2014 Black vs. white, art vs. life, the personal vs. the political \u2014 all at once.Credit…Courtesy of Alexander Gray Associates, New York. \u00a9 Lorraine O\u2019Grady\/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

feeling kind of ornery that there isn’t (hasn’t been?) (**update: it\u2019s here<\/a> now phew) a proper ny times obituary for lorraine o’grady after reading all about her here<\/a> and here<\/a> and here<\/a>. these art is…<\/em> photographs \/ performance are hitting me. from the ny times<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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When you start a new piece, where do you begin?<\/strong>
Well, I\u2019m still basically a conceptual artist, so the first thing that happens is that I get an idea, and then I figure out the best way to express it. I move from idea to idea fairly rapidly. I\u2019d say I\u2019m a breadth artist, not a depth artist. I never went tumbling down the rabbit hole the way most visual artists did, going deeper and deeper into their craft until they got to something bigger, some bedrock of truth. Perhaps because I\u2019m not crafted, and because, having come to art later in life, I don\u2019t have the time. In other words, I\u2019m not playing in art as much as other artists would be playing \u2014 I\u2019m out there to make the best possible work and as close to a masterpiece as I can. I think of myself as somebody who\u2019s working on the skin of the culture and constantly making incisions and stuffing works into each incision, the way you\u2019d season a turkey so that the flavor gets in, even if you don\u2019t have much of the original material left.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

and from the brooklyn rail<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Rail:<\/strong> What do you believe art is supposed to do?
O\u2019Grady:<\/strong> I\u2019m old-fashioned. I think art\u2019s first goal is to remind us that we are human, whatever that<\/em> is. I suppose the politics in my art could be to remind us that we are all<\/em> human. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

feeling kind of ornery that there isn’t (hasn’t been?) (**update: it\u2019s here now phew) a proper ny times obituary for lorraine o’grady after reading all about her here and here and here. these art is… photographs \/ performance are hitting me. from the ny times: When you start a new piece, where do you begin?Well, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[1],"class_list":["post-19638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19638","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19638"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19638\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19676,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19638\/revisions\/19676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}