Exhibition features over 100 major artworks by important Black American, African, and African diasporic artists including Gordon Parks, Kehinde Wiley, Hassan Hajjaj, Barkley L. Hendricks, Lorna Simpson, and Amy Sherald.
Giants: Art from the Dean Collection of Swizz Beatz and Alicia Keys is the first major exhibition of the world-class collection of multigenerational Black diasporic artists owned by musical and cultural icons Swizz Beatz (Kasseem Dean) and Alicia Keys. From their founding passion for collecting albums, musical equipment, and BMX bikes to their present-day philosophy of “Black artists supporting Black artists,” Giants offers a rare look into the Deans’ expansive collecting history. The exhibition brings together nearly forty “giants” of the art world, including Gordon Parks, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Lorna Simpson, Kehinde Wiley, and Nina Chanel Abney.
“Swizz Beatz and Alicia Keys have been among the most vocal advocates for Black creatives to support Black artists through their collecting, advocacy, and partnerships. In the process, they have created one of the most important collections of contemporary art,” notes Anne Pasternak, Shelby White and Leon Levy Director.
Main Image :Derrick Adams, Woman in Grayscale (Alicia) (2017). Photo courtesy of The Dean Collection, Swizz Beatz and Alicia Keys.
The exhibition opens February 10-July 7, 2024
Anna Melnykova, "Palace of Labor (palats praci), architector I. Pretro, 1916", shot with analog Canon camera, 35 mm Fuji film in March 2022.
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