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In one of her best-known performances, O’Grady crashed public art events as “Mlle Bourgeoise Noire,” or “Miss Black Middle Class.”

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 17, 2024

So did the first appearance of Lorraine O’Grady’s celebrated performance piece, “Mlle Bourgeoise Noire.”

From New York Times • Sep. 13, 2022

Mlle Bourgeoise Noire’s white-glove gown is in the Brooklyn show, as is a series of photographs documenting her New Museum appearance.

From New York Times • Mar. 11, 2021

In 1980, she adopted the persona Mlle Bourgeoise Noire and staged invasions of art galleries wearing a dress made of white gloves to critique the racial divide in the mainstream art world.

From Slate • Oct. 31, 2019

Ammu smiled and they shook hands, as though she really was being awarded a Certificate of Merit for being an honest-to- goodness Genuine Bourgeoise.

From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy