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The Pérez Art Museum's celebrated director Franklin Sirmans reflects on his nearly decade-long run at the Miami institution.

Conceptual artist Gary Simmons is primarily focused on how our collective understanding of race is impacted by the images we see in popular culture. 

For Gary Simmons, who observed the vast disconnect between the political nature of hip hop and the contemporary, predominantly abstract, art of the 1980s, the union of these two modalities engendered an artistic language that could speak simultaneously to multiple publics. Neither didactic nor illustrative, but rather legible and generative, Simmons’s work prompts viewers through subtly affective clues to examine their relationship to those symbols from popular culture that he re-forges int...

The fresh 60+ piece survey, which opens on June 13, 2023, is the most comprehensive look at Simmons’s work to date.

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