Franklin Sirmans is the Terri and Michael Smooke Department Head and Curator of Contemporary Art at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the artistic director of Prospect.3, New Orleans. At LACMA he has organized Futbol: The Beautiful Game (2014), among other exhibitions, and coordinated Ai Weiwei: Circle of Animals/Zodiac Head (2011) and Glenn Ligon: America (2011). In 2006‒10, he was Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Menil Collection, Houston, where he organized NeoHooDoo: Art for a Forgotten Faith (2008) and solo shows with Maurizio Cattelan, Vija Celmins, and Steve Wo...