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Glenn Ligon

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“Call and Response is a visual remembrance of the way in which the stories and histories of blacks in America have repeatedly been confused, smudged, silenced and fractured by those in power, those who hold the gaze.”

Alexandra Giniger reviews the latest exhibition of Glenn Ligon.

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Jacolby Satterwhite

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“I found myself with 15 years of Western painting and art history studies under my belt, but suddenly realized that my own autobiography was more important to me than the 400 years of Western painting history that I had learned. I urgently wanted to figure out a way to abandon that conceptual sphere and to find something concrete that mattered to me.”

Alexandra Giniger interviews Jacolby Satterwhite.

 

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