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...controversial piece is characteristic of Lord??s style. Her oeuvre is polemical, iconoclastic, and highly visceral. The exhibitions she has curated, with titles like “Pervert,” “Trash,” and “Gender, fucked” appropriate and subvert the language used to marginalize lesbians and other groups. “The Summer of Her Baldness: A Cancer Improvisation” is challenging in both form and content. A collection of images, e-mails, and journal entries, it is a breed of memoir about Lord?...
Although controversy stands out in a cursory examination of Lord??s work, a closer look reveals an inventive and nuanced thinker. Despite Lord??s concern with radicalism—in her own words, an interest in “different kinds of margins”—her work still boasts broad relevance and appeal...
Meyer is more explicit about the controversial aspects of Lord??s work. “Even today,” he says, “most American art museums would shy away from a show focused on queer culture. Museum trustees and directors, especially behind closed doors, remain fairly conservative and risk-averse...
...acceptance ceremony, Lord will discuss her less controversial current work, a “text/image project” inspired by a group of commonplace books from the Caribbean. The book does not push a particular argument, but rather reflects Lord??s personal interests. “It’s a matter of combining things that I’m actually interested in. I’m really interested in plants, you know? I’m really interested in food, and its relation to taste literally. I’m interested in bad paintings. I love photographing...
...Prophet’s Wife” is one theologian’s attempt at rational rapprochement with the Bible, and in this case, the idea of inspired prophecy. It is a move from the original prophetic intonation of “thus spake the Lord?? to “thus spake my heart.” There is a distinct tension between...