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Photographic documentation of this performance is at the Pérez Art Museum Miami, preserving one of the most important moments in Black performance art.

Q: What happened during the Art Is... performance?

In 1983, Lorraine O'Grady and performers in white carried empty gold frames through the African American Day Parade in Harlem. They held the frames around spectators, turning parade-goers into living artworks.

Lorraine O'Grady documented her 1983 guerrilla performance at the African American Day Parade in Harlem. She and performers in white carried empty gold frames through the crowd, framing spectators as living artworks.

The performance challenged who gets seen as art and who gets to define it. O'Grady invited parade-goers to see themselves as worthy subjects, pushing back against the exclusions of mainstream art institutions.

The photographic documentation at PAMM preserves this key moment in Black performance art and conceptual practice.

Photographic documentation of this performance is at the Pérez Art Museum Miami, preserving one of the most important moments in Black performance art.

In 1983, Lorraine O'Grady and performers in white carried empty gold frames through the African American Day Parade in Harlem. They held the frames around spectators, turning parade-goers into living artworks.

O'Grady challenged who gets seen as art and who defines it. By framing ordinary people as worthy subjects, she pushed back against the exclusions of mainstream art institutions. It's considered a key work of Black conceptual practice.

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