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The Writing on the Wall: Glenn Ligon on Borrowing Text to Expose American Racism, in 2011

By The Editors of ARTnews Posted 01/15/16 3:43 pm

Below, in honor of Glenn Ligon’s show at Luhring Augustine’s Bushwick space, which opens today, is Hilarie M. Sheets’s profile of Ligon from ARTnews’s April 2011 issue. (A second show of Ligon’s work opens at the gallery’s Chelsea space in … Read More

Features December 2015

Wall Talk: Do We Even Need Museum Wall Labels?

By Ann Landi Posted 12/21/15 9:30 am

There was a time when the labels and texts in museum shows were matter-of-fact explanations—the artist, title, date, medium, and then a few informative words from the curator. But as exhibitions have become more extravagant, provocative, and controversial, attended by … Read More

Features February 2015