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...Other African-American artists in his collection are Bradford, Theaster Gates and Lauren Halsey (all friends), as well as Glenn Ligon and Lorna Simpson, and he has pieces by Robert Rauschenberg and Damien...
...Studious and bookish, McFayden gained a full scholarship to the prestigious Cornell University in the US to study French literature, where she met her now ex-husband, Robert Smith....
...She points to a historic run of abstraction stemming from Andy Warhol and Robert Rauschenberg, leading to 21st-century versions of Abstract Expressionism via Christopher Wool, Glenn Ligon, Sterling Ruby...
...Conceptual artist Glenn Ligon’s elegant sets, which share dance’s paradoxical mix of the concrete and the open-ended, would have sufficed....
...In “Notes on the Margin of the Black Book” (1991-93), Ligon, who is gay, re-hung a series of homoerotic photographs by Robert Mapplethorpe alongside a range of textual commentaries by, among others, artists...
...Dane comments that he enjoys working with mid-generation artists, such as New York-born Glenn Ligon, who are “not market-oriented” though adds that “my artists don’t produce much work so we can struggle...
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