Meditations on the History of the Present

I seem to get my best political ideas when looking for aesthetic solutions.—Lorraine O’Grady
The form of my work has proven to me to be more important than the content. If you had told me when I started forty years ago that I would be saying that, I would probably have laughed. But the diptych has always been, in a sense, my primary form, even in the performances. For me, the diptych can only be both/ and. When you put two things that are related and yet totally dissimilar in a posit