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 ...

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 ...

Bronx-born, New York City-based conceptual artist Glenn Ligon (b. 1960) is well-known for text-based paintings that distort the visual boundaries of the written word, using literary excerpts from ...

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 ...

On View Glenn Ligon’s Group Show ‘Blue Black’ Explores the Dramatic Tension of Race and Color in America. The artist took inspiration from the eponymous Ellsworth Kelly painting.

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: America is on view at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art until January 22, 2012. 5905 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles; 323-857-6000; lacma.org.

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 ...

Another Country (After James Baldwin). Photo: Courtesy of the artist and Regen Projects, L.A. Created in the aftermath of the election, Glenn Ligon’s conceptualist text piece is officially ...