Glenn Ligon

Philip Guston (1913-1980) fait partie de ces artistes dont l’oeuvre est difficilement assignable à un seul mouvement. D’abord inspiré par l’onirisme de Giorgio de Chirico, l’Américain évolue rapidement vers l’expressionnisme abstrait, dont il devient l’un des plus grands représentants. Son retour à la figuration, dans les années 1960, provoque un tollé dans le monde de l’art.

An exploration of the nexus of art, race, and justice through the story of art collector and philanthropist Agnes Gund who sold Roy Lichtenstein’s painting “Masterpiece” in 2017 for $165 million to start the Art for Justice Fund to end mass incarceration.

An introduction to the work of some of the foremost Black visual artists working today, inspired by the late David Driskell's landmark 1976 exhibition, "Two Centuries of Black American Art."

For this project Ligon originally intended to re-create the last scene of a 1903 silent film adaptation of the novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin from 1852. In the film, white actors in blackface played the principal roles. Tom, the film's protagonist and a slave, dies in the final scene, and images of the future—including the end of the American Civil War and the emancipation of slaves—materialize behind him. After footage of his reenactment was processed, Ligon discovered that the film was blurred and the imagery had disappeared. Leaving the footage unedited, he added a commissioned score played by the jazz pianist Jason Moran. In the final work, a cinematic scenario deeply intertwined with the complex and painful history of representations of ethnic difference has been transformed into a series of abstract black, white, and gray traces.

A cinematic omnibus rooted in New Orleans, challenging the idea of black cinema as a "wave" or "movement in time," proposing instead a continuous thread of achievement.

Après avoir survécu à une tentative d'assassinat en 1968, Andy Warhol documente sa vie et ses sentiments. Cette série révèle les secrets de ses journaux intimes.