Glenn Ligon is fascinated by “the instability of art objects.” He treats them as fluid as the text he works with. Break It Down, a retrospective of work from the celebrated conceptual artist, is on ...

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The Brant Foundation’s Glenn Ligon isn’t a deep dive into the artist’s career, but it is a concise overview that does something rare: it gives the art space to connect with the viewer. The show’s ...

The New York City-based artist was a participant in the Aspen Art Museum’s inaugural Art in Relation Festival in July. Ligon, 65, also was the honoree at the 20th annual Art Crush gala on Aug. 1 where ...

Glenn Ligon (born 1960), Hands, 1996. Silkscreen ink and gesso on unstretched canvas, 82 × 144 inches (208.3 × 365.8 cm). Collection of Eileen Harris Norton ...

This fall, discover Glenn Ligon's sharp, insightful writing; Gustav Metzger ’s account of his extraordinary life, art, and political activism; and a collection of cartoons by Jason Rhoades that reveal ...

With stencils and oil sticks, Glenn Ligon asks questions about visibility — and our ability to read one another This painting, so like a weathered tombstone, is not hard to see but is very hard to ...

Glenn Ligon, Grey Hands #2-6, silkscreen on canvas. ©Glenn Ligon. Loan courtesy of the artist, Luhring Augustine, New York, Regen Projects, Los Angeles, and Thomas Dane Gallery, London. Installation ...

Writings / by Glenn Ligon. Black light: David Hammons and the poetics of emptiness (2004) ; Dave McKenzie (2005) ; Wardell Milan II: a child of Babel (2007) ; My Felix (2007) ; Untitled (2008) ; ...

Glenn Ligon is an American conceptual artist born in 1960 in the Bronx, New York. Ligon's work explores race, language, desire, sexuality, and identity through various media including painting, neon, ...

12 x 9 in. (30.5 x 22.9 cm.) Gouache and crayon on printed paper, 2004, signed 'Ligon' and dated on the reverse. 12 x 9 in. (sheet), 20 x 16 in. (frame). Note: In 2000, Glenn Ligon began a series of ...

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