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Glenn Ligon: AMERICA:
Audio guide stop for Glenn Ligon, When Black Wasn’t Beautiful #1, 2004 Collect

Glenn Ligon (b. 1960), When Black Wasn’t Beautiful #1, 2004. Oil stick, synthetic polymer, and graphite on canvas. 30 × 30 in. (76.2 × 76.2 cm). Collection of Susan Hancock © Glenn Ligon; photograph courtesy of Glenn Ligon

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This audio guide, introduced by Alice Pratt Brown Director Adam D. Weinberg, highlights a diverse range of works from the exhibition Glenn Ligon: AMERICA. Artist Glenn Ligon, exhibition curator Scott Rothkopf, and Thelma Golden, director and chief curator of the Studio Museum in Harlem, provide additional commentary.

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1.	Audio guide stop for Introduction to Glenn Ligon: AMERICA	COLLECT
2.	Audio guide stop for Glenn Ligon, Untitled (I Am a Man), 1988	COLLECT
3.	Audio guide stop for Glenn Ligon, Untitled (I Am a Man), 1988	COLLECT
4.	Audio guide stop for Glenn Ligon, No 291 (Language), 1988	COLLECT
5.	Audio guide stop for Glenn Ligon, Untitled (I Feel Most Colored When I Am Thrown Against a Sharp White Background), 1990	COLLECT
6.	Audio guide stop for Glenn Ligon, Untitled (I Remember the Very Day That I Became Colored), 1990	COLLECT
7.	Audio guide stop for Glenn Ligon, Untitled (I Was Somebody), 1991	COLLECT
8.	Audio guide stop for Glenn Ligon, Runaways, 1993	COLLECT
9.	Audio guide stop for Glenn Ligon, Notes on the Margin of the Black Book, 1991–1993	COLLECT
10.	Audio guide stop for Glenn Ligon, Notes on the Margin of the Black Book, 1991–1993	COLLECT
11.	Audio guide stop for Glenn Ligon, We’re Black and Strong I, 1996	COLLECT
12.	Audio guide stop for Glenn Ligon, Self-Portraits, 1996	COLLECT
13.	Audio guide stop for Glenn Ligon, Malcolm X (Version 1) #1, 2000	COLLECT
14.	Audio guide stop for Glenn Ligon, When Black Wasn’t Beautiful #1, 2004	COLLECT
15.	Audio guide stop for Glenn Ligon, When Black Wasn’t Beautiful #1, 2004	COLLECT
16.	Audio guide stop for Glenn Ligon, Untitled (Conclusion), 2004	COLLECT
17.	Audio guide stop for Glenn Ligon, Self-Portrait, 2002	COLLECT
18.	Audio guide stop for Glenn Ligon, Rückenfigur, 2009	COLLECT
19.	Glenn Ligon, Rückenfigur, 2009	COLLECT