Franklin Sirmans on Afro-Caribbean Art and His 2024 Artforum Top Ten
Originally published on December 19, 2024, this episode of "Under the Cover" features Artforum Editor in Chief Tina Rivers Ryan in conversation with Franklin Sirmans, director of the Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM). Filmed in Miami, the discussion centers on Sirmans’s Top Ten list for Artforum’s year-end issue, highlighting some of the most compelling exhibitions and ideas from 2024.
Sirmans reflects on a wide range of topics—from new scholarship on the Black Mediterranean to the importance of monographic exhibitions that revisit historical artists with fresh eyes. He also speaks to PAMM’s ongoing commitment to Afro-Caribbean art and the museum’s efforts to engage deeply with Miami’s diasporic communities.
Even though the conversation references specific shows and scholarship from 2024, I’m sharing it because Sirmans’s insights offer a broader look at the curatorial process—how exhibitions are shaped, and how that shaping contributes not just to art history, but to our understanding of history as a whole.
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