Main Themes, Keywords
appropriation, American history, arts and activism, identity politics, gender, race and culture, queer theory, intertextuality, historiography, democracy, democracy of space, resistance/call to action, permanence/impermanence, poetics, light, neon
New School Exhibitions and Events
Related Works in The New School Art Collection
Students Respond to the Art Work
In the News
Selected Readings
Als, Hilton, and Glenn Ligon. Stranger. New York: Studio Museum in Harlem, 2001.
Bordowitz, Gregg, Alex Farquharson, Glenn Ligon, and Francesco Manacorda. Glenn Ligon: Encounters and Collisions. London:Tate Publishing, 2015.
Copeland II, Huey Gene. Bound to Appear: Art, Slavery, and the Site of Blackness in Multicultural America. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2013.
English, Darby, Wayne Baerwaldt, Huey Copleand and Glenn Ligon. Glenn Ligon: Some Changes. Toronto, Canada: The Power Plant, 2005.
Golden, Thelma. Black Male: Representations of Masculinity in Contemporary American Art. New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1994.
Golden, Thelma. “What’s White…?” In Whitney Biennial Exhibition. New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1993.
Koestenbaum, Wayne. “Color Me Glenn.” In Coloring: New Work by Glenn Ligon. Minneapolis, MN: Walker Art Center, 2001.
Ligon, Glenn. Yourself in the World: Selected Writings and Interviews. Edited by Scott Rothkopf. 2011. Yale University Press
Rothkopf, Scott. Glenn Ligon: AMERICA. 2011. New York: The Whitney Museum of American Art
