Glenn Ligon

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Marilyn Minter: Pretty/Dirty TrailerDer Maler Philip Guston – Ein amerikanisches Leben TrailerBlack Art: In the Absence of Light Trailer

Glenn Ligon is an American conceptual artist whose work explores race, language, desire, sexuality, and identity. Based in New York City, Ligon engages in intertextuality with other works from the visual arts, literature, and history, as well as his own life.

Most Popular Glenn Ligon Trailers

Total trailers found: 6

The Death of Tom Trailer (2008)

01 January 2008

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.

America Trailer (2019)

26 January 2019

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.

Black Art: In the Absence of Light Trailer (2021)

09 February 2021

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.

Marilyn Minter: Pretty/Dirty Trailer (2025)

11 October 2025

Visual artist Marilyn Minter has been a major creative voice since the 1970s. Despite her undeniable talent, her provocative style—often blurring the lines between pornographic and commercial—has kept her at arm’s length from the art world’s inner sanctum.

Aggie Trailer (2020)

07 October 2020

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.

Der Maler Philip Guston – Ein amerikanisches Leben Trailer (2023)

08 October 2023

The extraordinary work of the American artist Philip Guston is a milestone in modern painting. Guston is one of the most discussed painters of his time and today a star of the younger generation of contemporary artists.