Glenn Ligon's work adorned the White House when Barack Obama was president An American contemporary artist whose work has adorned one of the most famous buildings in the world is featuring in a ...

An American contemporary artist whose work has adorned one of the most famous buildings in the world is featuring in a new exhibition in England. Barack Obama had a "text painting" by Glenn Ligon ...

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 ...

For at least the 800th time, Cambridge drifts back into Michaelmas Term, opening its cloisters to swarms of sweaty students and their perilous bicycles. The Fitzwilliam Museum, however, is roaring ...

Conceptual artist Glenn Ligon’s first Greater China solo show features his paintings of text rendered illegible that explore the complexities of being a black artist, and the post-truth world of ...

Miami’s Rubell Museum to Stage Plays Inspired By Its Collection The museum's upcoming performance series was inspired by works by artists including Kehinde Wiley and Glenn Ligon.

An art handler lays out Glenn Ligon’s “Figure” series; a painter works a corner of the High Gallery from a lift; curator Ashley James and exhibition designer Nazanin Naeini consider the ...

With stencils and oil sticks, Glenn Ligon asks questions about visibility — and our ability to read one another.

Glenn Ligon’s “Double America,” from 2012, contemplates the doublings, and confusions, imposed on the nation by race. National Gallery of Art ...

Since the mid-1980s, in a series of revelatory works, Glenn Ligon has been exploring american identity and questions of race and sexuality. Until now, this respected figure on the us scene had never ...

The Department of Art and Art History's visiting artist lecture series will livestream contemporary artist Glenn Ligon in conversation with Professor Megan O'Grady at 6:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Feb. 8.