The New Yorker was given licence to disrupt the contents of Cambridge’s Fitzwilliam — and add in his own works
On the day I meet the American artist Glenn Ligon, he arrives a little late, clad in navy blue and slightly out of breath. He’s spent longer than expected touring the Wren Library at Trinity College in Cambridge. He had, he tells me, been delighted to find both the hand-written manuscript and the first edition of AA Milne’s Winnie-the-Pooh on public display there and then dismayed that he couldn’t take a picture. Pooh, it turns out, is the intellectual property of Disney in the UK.
Flowers tumble from baskets, flourish out of Grecian urns, are paired with ripening peaches and bunches of grapes. “They had 15 paintings there before,” says Ligon. “But my own work is about repetition.
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