Lorraine O'Grady, Untitled(Mlle Bourgeoise Noire celebrates with her friends), 1980–83/2009. Silver gelatin fiber photograph, 7 × 9.31 in. (17.78 × 23.65 cm.) Edition of 8 + 2 AP. Detail.
Throughout her career, Lorraine O’Grady pounded on the door of the art world establishment, calling for systemic change. Now, at eighty-six, she is getting her due, with a heralded retrospective at the Brooklyn Museum called Both/And, which follows the comprehensive anthology of her writing, Writing in Space, 1973–2019, published by Duke University Press in 2019.