Item Information
Title: Conversation with Franklin Sirmans and lecture by Sirmans
Date: 2005 January 22
Physical Details: 1 sound cassette ; 48 min., 57 sec.
Description: Recording has low sound quality and muffled speech. Lecture is recorded in an echoing space, has low sound level, background noise and occasional microphone noise. 00:00:00-00:27:50 recording consists of social conversations. Maren Hassinger and Franklin Sirmans discuss their private and professional lives. Starting 00:27:53 recording is Sirmans's lecture at an exhibition opening for Double Consciousness: Black Conceptual Art Since 1970. Topics center on African American art, artists, and art movements such as abstract expressionism and conceptualism. Numerous people are mentioned, including Jean-Michel Basquiat, Bob Thompson, Ed Clark, Maren Hassinger. See item 24959 for Side 01 of the tape. Notes copied from the cassette case: Lecture Franklin Simmons.
Creator: Sirmans, Franklin, 1969-
Forms part of: Maren Hassinger papers, 1955-2018
Rights Statement: Current copyright status is undetermined
Citation Information: Franklin Sirmans and Maren Hassinger. Conversation with Franklin Sirmans and lecture by Sirmans, 2005 January 22. Maren Hassinger papers, 1955-2018. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
Availability: This item has been digitally reformatted. It is available by requesting an appointment in the Archives of American Art's reading rooms, or in certain situations as a Reproduction Request.
Digital ID: 24960