Glenn Ligon

How contemporary artist Glenn Ligon’s expansive body of work mines American history and literature to ask critical questions about modern culture.

OCTOBER Files: Glenn Ligon presents the first compilation of critical discourse on the multimedia work of one of the most influential American artists of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Often citing or annotating past literary (e.g., James Baldwin), artistic (e.g., Andy Warhol), and musical (e.g., Steve Reich) interventions, L...