In Glenn Ligon’s art, expertly surveyed in a traveling exhibition newly arrived at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the mixture is made. An explosion, however, never comes.

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 ...

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Malcolm X (Version 1) #1, 2000 by Glenn Ligon Vinyl-based paint, silkscreen ink, and gesso on canvas 96 x 72 in. (243.8 x 182.9 cm) Collection of Michael and Lise Evans Mirror, 2002 by Glenn Ligon ...

New York artist Glenn Ligon is perhaps best known for the text-based paintings he started making in the '80s. Now, his first midcareer retrospective takes a closer look at how the past has ...

In a new exhibition, Glenn Ligon explores the idea of “blue black” as it manifests not only in black identity but also in American culture. by Antwaun Sargent July 24, 2017 July 31, 2017 ...

In 2011, the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York held a midcareer retrospective of Ligon’s work. Valerie Cassel Oliver, curator of modern and contemporary art at the VMFA, first ...

Stenciled linen pulp painting in colors on pigmented cotton sheet Self-Portrait at Nine Years Old is a vibrant, pixelated work by Glenn Ligon, that depicts James Brown, an influential pioneer of ...

On View ‘It Has Different Levels of Legibility’: Watch Artist Glenn Ligon Translate Gertrude Stein’s Writings Into Works of Art. As part of a collaboration with Art21, hear news-making ...

High Line Art, the art-commissioning arm of the High Line in New York’s Chelsea neighbourhood, is relaunching its billboard series on 3 September with a new work by Glenn Ligon. The piece ...

Things are going well for painter Glenn Ligon. Barely 18 months ago, the Obamas hung one of his works in the White House. Right now the art world is toasting him too, with a retrospective at New ...