Glenn Ligon: AMERICA | Audio guides

Mar 10–June 5, 2011


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Neon artwork with the words America backwards.
Neon artwork with the words America backwards.

Glenn Ligon (b. 1960), Rückenfigur, 2009. Neon and paint, 24 x 145 x 4 in. (61 x 368.3 x 10 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase with funds from the Paint and Sculpture Committee  T.2010.71. © Glenn Ligon

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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