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Selected Press: Glenn Ligon at The Brant Foundation
June 4th, 2025
The Must-See Art Exhibitions To Experience This Summer
This focused exhibition of works by Glenn Ligon explores his powerful engagement with American identity, language, and cultural memory.
Read the full article by Okla Jones in Essence:
Art Abounds in New York This May Amid Market Uncertainty
The Brant Foundation, for its part, will open a show at its East Village location of pieces by Glenn Ligon, whose work borrows from texts by figures like Zora Neale Hurston and Richard Pryor to address how Black life and history are represented in the United States.
Read the full article by Andrew Russeth in The New York Times:
For Glenn Ligon, Language Is Material
An exhibition of Ligon’s well-known works at the Brant Foundation shows how language fails us and confronts us with silence.
Read the full article by Natalie Haddad in Hyperallergic: