
Mlle Bourgeoise Noire leaves the safety of home
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Mlle Bourgeoise Noire and her Master of Ceremonies enter the New Museum
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Mlle Bourgeoise Noire asks, Won't you help me lighten my heavy bouquet?
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A skeptic inspects Mlle Bourgeoise Noire's cape
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Mlle Bourgeoise Noire smiles, she smiles, she smiles
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Mlle Bourgeoise Noire continues her tournée
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Mlle Bourgeoise Noire removes the cape and puts on her gloves
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Mlle Bourgeoise Noire begins to concentrate
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Crowd watches Mlle Bourgeoise Noire whipping herself
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Mlle Bourgeoise Noire beats herself with the whip-that-made-plantations-move
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Crowd watches Mlle Bourgeoise Noire shouting her poem
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Mlle Bourgeoise Noire shouts out her poem
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Mlle Bourgeoise Noire leaves the New Museum
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Mlle Bourgeoise Noire celebrates with her friends
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Installation view from "Lorraine O'Grady/Matrix 127,"Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT, 1995. Photo:Lisa Kahane.
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Installation view, WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution, The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, 2007. Photo: Brian Forrest.
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Installation view, WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC, 2007.
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Installation view, WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution, MOMA/PS1, Long Island City, NY, 2008. Photo: Matthew Septimus.
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