Glenn Ligon’s “It’s Always a Little Bit Not Yet” is on view through December 23, 2021, at Hauser and Wirth, 542 West 22nd Street, New York. Kate Brown Senior Editor ...

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.

When Glenn Ligon was an art student at Wesleyan University in Middletown, he attended a talk by a black artist at Yale. ... Ligon, an artist whose work deals with race and sexuality, discussed major ...

Glenn Ligon and Claudia Rankine Talk Race at Art Basel Miami Beach The artist and the poet sat down together at Miami’s largest art fair to discuss their mutual influence and inspiration. by ...

In the gallery’s large warehouse space, Ligon stared silently at the 22 canvases propped on foam blocks against the walls. Most are black text on white, black or silver backgrounds, though five ...

Glenn Ligon, “Live” (2014), seven-channel video installation, 80 min. Even without the sound, anyone who’s familiar with Pryor knows that racism is a recurring subject of his comedy, just as ...

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 ...

Glenn Ligon’s “White #15” was painted, but it was also written. Starting at the top left and finishing at the bottom right, Ligon used a plastic letter stencil and an oily paint stick to ...

Two boats, one blue and one orange, rest on the floor. From a video screen, we hear artist Glenn Ligon telling his therapist about making a papier-mch boat in school and painting it blue and ...