I ❤️ Glenn Ligon Moon Jars

Screenshot of Glenn Ligon’s Dec. 17, 2019 instagram announcement of the opening of “In a Year With A Black Moon,” the show at Rat Hole Gallery in Tokyo where he first exhibited his black Moon Jars I have loved Glenn Ligon’s Moon Jars since they first appeared in “In A Year with a Black Moon” in 2019, in what turned out to be the last show at Rat Hole Gallery in Tokyo. And by love, I mean hearted them every time I’ve seen them on Instagram. Their narrative hasn’t changed much in the intervening years, though: Ligon developed them with a Korean ceramicist in Japan over three years. They’re made with black clay instead of the kaolin white clay of Joseon originals. The rest of the discussion quickly shifts to Moon Jars themselves, and their history, and even that can be a very short conversation. Glenn Ligon Moon Jars installed at “All Over The Place” at the Fitzwiliam in Cambridge in 2024, : ig/glennadamson Glenn Adamson, who posted about Ligon’s Moon Jars installed at the Fitzwilliam in…