Glenn Ligon is one of the preeminent members of a generation of American artists who came to prominence in the late 1980s with conceptually-based paintings, photographs and text-oriented works concerning the social, linguistic and political constructions of race, gender and sexuality. Incorporating sources as diverse as photographic scrapbooks and Richard Pryor"s stand-up comedy routines--his lush coal-dust paintings of excerpts from James Baldwin"s 1955 essay "Stranger in the Village," for instance--Ligon"s art is a meditation on representation of the self in relation to culture and history. Handsomely designed with a hardcover slipcase, Some Changes is the artist"s first significant monograph. Well-illustrated texts by critics and curators Wayne Baerwaldt, Huey Copeland, Darby English, Wayne Koestenbaum and Mark Nash survey Ligon"s works from 1982 to 2005, and a candid interview with Toronto artist Stephen Andrews delves into Ligon"s personal insights and professional experiences.