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Decades after graduating Wellesley College as the only Black student in her class in the 1950s, the groundbreaking artist has a career survey set to open at the Davis Museum.

Lorraine O’Grady outpaced the culture for years. In Brooklyn, it finally catches up By Murray Whyte Globe Staff,Updated March 17, 2021, 12:59 p.m. Email to a Friend A photograph from Lorraine O'Grady's 1983 "Art Is..." performance.Lorraine O’Grady/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York BROOKLYN — Coming to art as a later-in-life fourth or fifth act, Lorraine O’Grady has joked that she “only had time for masterpieces,” which doesn’t surprise. Now 86, she’s only ever made the most of her time. She was an intelligence analyst for the US State Department (d...

Had her life been more conventional, Lorraine O’Grady would have been, that Thursday in June 1980, at Wellesley College for her 25th class reunion. Instead, she was donning a dress hand-stitched from 180 pairs of white gloves — accessorized with a tiara, sash and cat-o’-nine-tails — and heading to the gallery Just Above Midtown, to carry out a guerrilla-theater intervention. O’Grady, a daughter of Jamaican immigrants in Boston, had a picaresque itinerary already. An economics graduate, she had worked for the Labor and State Departments, including as an intelligence analyst in the pe...

Lorraine O’Grady, Still Cutting Into the Culture And at 86, the pioneering conceptual artist isn’t done yet. She’s getting her first retrospective ever, at the Brooklyn Museum. Lorraine O’Grady’s retrospective opens March 5 at the Brooklyn Museum. “I’m working on the skin of the culture and I’m making incisions,” she says.Credit...Lelanie Foster for The New York Times Feb. 19, 2021 Had her life been more conventional, Lorraine O’Grady would have been, that Thursday in June 1980, at Wellesley College for her 25th class reunion. Instead, she was...