• Franklin Sirmans (born in New York City (Queens)) is an American art critic, editor, writer, curator and has been the director of the Pérez Art Museum...
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  • social milieu he wished to enter: the predominantly white art world. —Franklin Sirmans, In the Cipher: Basquiat and Hip Hop Culture In May 1978, Basquiat...
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  • curators and writers focusing on works of art by artists of color such as Franklin Sirmans and Lisa Dent. In 2000, following the appointments of Lowery Stokes...
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    announced a special section of Frieze New York, curated by director Franklin Sirmans. The section shows artists from Just Above Midtown (JAM), the 1979-80s...
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    United States Biennial Prospect.3 in New Orleans, Louisiana, curated by Franklin Sirmans. She was included in Getty's Pacific Standard Time's LA>LA exhibition...
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    Of Mice and Men, Berlin, Hatje Cantz, 2006, ISBN 978-3-7757-1765-6 Franklin Sirmans, Maurizio Cattelan: Is There Life After Death?, Yale University Press...
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    represented the Bahamas at the 55th Venice Biennale. Maxwell Heller, Franklin Sirmans, Tavares Strachan: Orthostatic Tolerance: It Might Not Be Such a Bad...
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  • Museum Miami. The show is curated by museum director and art historian, Franklin Sirmans. In 2015, a striped canvas by Louis, Number 36 (1962), from the collection...
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    exhibition organized by the Pérez Art Museum Miami and curated by Franklin Sirmans, the museum director. Mehretu's painting Untitled 1 (2001) sold for...
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  • 2005. Co-curators include Marc Mayer, Fred Hoffman, Kellie Jones, and Franklin Sirmans. Energy / Experimentation: Black Artists and Abstraction, 1964-1980...
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    Hickey, Ruba Katrib, Laura Hoptman, Laurel Ptak, Irene Mei Zhi Shum, Franklin Sirmans, Hazma Walker, and others. Art in General had a long history of supporting...
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    visual art exhibit, NeoHooDoo: Art for a Forgotten Faith, curated by Franklin Sirmans for the Menil Collection in Houston, Texas, where it opened on June...
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    prolific artist to come through The Studio Museum A-I-R program" by Franklin Sirmans. The Corcoran Gallery of Art presented a solo show by Richards in 2000...
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    Pattern, Skarstedt, New York, 2015 Prospect New Orleans, curated by Franklin Sirmans, Contemporary Arts Center New Orleans, 2014 Next, Arsenal, Montréal...
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    Time: Selections from PAMM's Collection, curated by museum director Franklin Sirmans at the Pérez Art Museum Miami alongside the artworks by other sixteen...
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  • Family Collection (publisher), 2012. By Robert Hobbs, Glen Logon, Franklin Sirmans and Michele Wallace. ISBN 978-0-9821195-5-6. Nina Chanel Abney: Royal...
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    collecting practices at the Pérez Art Museum Miami. The show is curated by Franklin Sirmans, art historian and museum director. Bradford is a recipient of a Joan...
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  • a new large-scale series of a sixteen-panel paintings. Curated by Franklin Sirmans, the works in the exhibition draw inspiration from the murals of Jamaican...
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    the biennial Prospect.3|New Orleans under the artist direction of Franklin Sirmans and used TVWS and experimental licenses from the FCC for deployments...
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  • African, Asian and Caribbean artistis in Britain, 1966–1996, edited by Franklin Sirmans and Mora J. Beauchamp-Byrd, the Caribbean Cultural Center/African Diaspora...
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  • group exhibition at the Pérez Art Museum Miami, Florida, curated by Franklin Sirmans. Luiz Camnitzer work is placed next to Jennie C. Jones, Alfredo Jaar...
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  • Njami, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Jack Persekian, José Roca, Bisi Silva, Franklin Sirmans, Kathryn Smith, Susan Sollins, Mirjam Varadinis, What, How & for Whom/WHW...
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    Proyecto de Bili Bidjocka, in "Atlantica International", 18, 1997. Franklin Sirmans, Bili Bidjocka: Mélancholia, Sophistication, And Lightness, in "Flash...
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  • Mitchell's work has been inspired by icons and products of popular culture. Franklin Sirmans has noted that “Mitchell’s sustained ability to transform everyday...
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    Rubell Family Collection (exhibition catalogue). Texts by Robert Hobbs, Franklin Sirmans, and Michele Wallace. New York: D.A.P./Distributed Art Pub. (2008)...
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    ISBN 978-0-925859-69-3. BOXED: 2014 (Damiani Editore) Foreword by Franklin Sirmans, text by Christopher Bedford, Brittany Reilly and Zoe Larkins. ISBN 978-88-6208-354-6...
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  • Contemporary African Art no. 13/14 (Summer 2001): 26–33. Kim, Christine Y and Franklin Sirmans, Eds. Freestyle: The Studio Museum In Harlem. The Studio Museum of...
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  • collections-based exhibition at the Pérez Art Museum Miami in 2024, curated by Franklin Sirmans, borrowed its title from an artwork by León, who exhibited alongside...
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  • Strachan Orthostatic Tolerance: Launching into an Infinite Distance 2010 Franklin Sirmans Ryan Mosley Painting Séance 2010 Elizabeth Thomas Ari Fish, Sonié Ruffin...
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    monograph for artist Sarah Cain titled with essays by Andrew Berardini and Franklin Sirmans, amongst others, and designed by Brian Roettinger. Alex Hawgood, The...
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