Glenn Ligon

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Artist Glenn Ligon blasts Janet Jackson over 'nasty' Kamala Harris comments

The pop star re-ignited a row over the presidential candidate's heritage

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

Glenn Ligon: 'The idea of coal dust being elevated into the space of art was something that interested me'

As his series of text paintings make their debut in Hong Kong, the US artist discusses his decades-long meditation on the words of James Baldwin

Sports stars spotted at Art Basel in Miami Beach VIP preview

Venus Williams and Amar’e Stoudemire among the big-hitters at the fair

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'America is both a shining beacon and the Death Star': Glenn Ligon on Andy Warhol, ambivalence and his Stevie Wonder obsession

The New York-based artist tells us about his favourite books, music and artists on the A brush with… podcast

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A brush with... Glenn Ligon

An in-depth interview on the artist's big influences, from Stevie Wonder to Charles Dickens

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