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Glenn Ligon in Cambridge, new Gauguin biography, Teresa Margolles’s Fourth Plinth commission — podcast

The American artist on his interventions at the Fitzwilliam Museum, a chat about a new publication exploring Gauguin’s complex character, and the details on a new London sculpture paying tribute to trans, non-binary, and gender non-conforming communities

Hosted by Ben Luke. Produced by David Clack, Julia Michalska and Alexander Morrison
20 September 2024
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Glenn Ligon has been engaging with the historic collections at the Fitzwilliam Museum for his new exhibition

Photo: Rob Hill

Glenn Ligon has been engaging with the historic collections at the Fitzwilliam Museum for his new exhibition

Photo: Rob Hill

The Week in Art

From breaking news and insider insights to exhibitions and events around the world, the team at The Art Newspaper picks apart the art world’s big stories with the help of special guests. An award-winning podcast hosted by Ben Luke.

This week: the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge, UK, has invited the US artist Glenn Ligon to explore its history and collections, and his interventions are revealed this week. Ben Luke goes to Cambridge to talk to Ligon about the project.

An installation view of Waiting for the Barbarians, (2021), at Portals, Hellenic Parliament + NEON at the former Public Tobacco Factory, Athens

© Glenn Ligon; Courtesy of Thomas Dane Gallery, London. Photo: Natalia Tsoukala, Courtesy NEON

Few artists’ lives prompt as much discussion as that of Paul Gauguin, and a new biography of the French artist by Sue Prideaux has just been published. We talk to Sue about the book.

Sue Prideaux’s new book offers new insights into the life of Paul Gauguin

Courtesy of Faber

And this episode’s Work of the Week is the piece that has just been unveiled on the Fourth Plinth in Trafalgar Square. Mil Veces un Instante or (A Thousand Times in an Instant) by Teresa Margolles is made up of plaster casts of the faces of 726 trans, non-binary, and gender non-conforming people. Ekow Eshun, the chair of the group that commissions the projects for the Fourth Plinth, speaks to our associate digital editor, Alexander Morrison, about the work.

Teresa Margolles, Mil Veces Un Instante (A Thousand Times in an Instant)

Photo: James O Jenkin

  • Glenn Ligon: All Over The Place, Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK, until 2 March 2025. Distinguishing Piss from Rain: Writings and Interviews by Glenn Ligon, Hauser & Wirth Publishers, £32 or $38. Untitled (America/Me), High Line, New York, until November 2024
  • Listen to our in-depth interview, A brush with… Glenn Ligon from 18 August 2021
  • Wild Thing: A Life of Paul Gauguin, by Sue Prideaux, Faber, £30; published in the US next year, by WW Norton, $39.99
  • Teresa Margolles, Mil Veces un Instante (A Thousand Times in an Instant), Fourth Plinth, Trafalgar Square, until 2026
The Week in ArtGlenn LigonFitzwilliam MuseumExhibitionsCambridgePaul GauguinPost-ImpressionismBooksTeresa MargollesFourth PlinthPublic artLondon
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