Glenn Ligon in Cambridge, new Gauguin biography, Teresa Margolles’s Fourth Plinth commission — podcast

Glenn Ligon has been engaging with the historic collections at the Fitzwilliam Museum for his new exhibition
Photo: Rob Hill
From breaking news and insider insights to exhibitions and events around the world, the team at The Art Newspaper picks apart the art world’s big stories with the help of special guests. An award-winning podcast hosted by Ben Luke.
This week: the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge, UK, has invited the US artist Glenn Ligon to explore its history and collections, and his interventions are revealed this week. Ben Luke goes to Cambridge to talk to Ligon about the project.
An installation view of Waiting for the Barbarians, (2021), at Portals, Hellenic Parliament + NEON at the former Public Tobacco Factory, Athens
© Glenn Ligon; Courtesy of Thomas Dane Gallery, London. Photo: Natalia Tsoukala, Courtesy NEON
Few artists’ lives prompt as much discussion as that of Paul Gauguin, and a new biography of the French artist by Sue Prideaux has just been published. We talk to Sue about the book.
Sue Prideaux’s new book offers new insights into the life of Paul Gauguin
Courtesy of Faber
And this episode’s Work of the Week is the piece that has just been unveiled on the Fourth Plinth in Trafalgar Square. Mil Veces un Instante or (A Thousand Times in an Instant) by Teresa Margolles is made up of plaster casts of the faces of 726 trans, non-binary, and gender non-conforming people. Ekow Eshun, the chair of the group that commissions the projects for the Fourth Plinth, speaks to our associate digital editor, Alexander Morrison, about the work.
Teresa Margolles, Mil Veces Un Instante (A Thousand Times in an Instant)
Photo: James O Jenkin

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