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CNN —Lorraine O’Grady, an indefatigable conceptual artist whose work critiqued definitions of identity, died in New York on Friday aged 90. Courtesy Lorraine O’Grady TrustThen, in 1983, she entered a float into the annual African American Day Parade in Harlem. Courtesy Lorraine O’Grady TrustBefore finding art, O’Grady tried many pursuits and careers, first opting to study Spanish literature at Wellesley College before changing tracks to study economics. Courtesy Lorraine O’Grady TrustDefying the conventional ideas of an art career until the end, O’Grady had been busier than ever in recent years. “Lorraine O’Grady was a force to be reckoned with,” Ibrahim said in a statement.
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Mariane Ibrahim at the new Mexico City outpost of her namesake gallery. “I love that we’re in this massive metropolis of a city that’s close to the U.S. yet it has an ancient culture and it’s so refined,” she says. Dealer Mariane Ibrahim, one of the art world’s rising tastemakers, has an uncanny ability to sense where the global art scene will pivot next. Over the past decade, Ibrahim has championed artists primarily from Africa and its diaspora in her eponymous galleries, first in Seattle and now in Chicago and Paris. In each locale, Ibrahim has stoked and leveraged the curiosity of local curators and collectors to propel her artists onto the international art stage—particularly Ghana’s Amoako Boafo, whose finger-painted portraits in bright hues have sold for as much as $3.4 million at auction.
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