The first book to showcase selections from the groundbreaking Dean Collection of Swizz Beatz and Alicia Keys, accompanying a major exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum. Giants : Art from the Dean Collection of Swizz Beatz and Alicia Keyx celebrates selections from the world-class collection of musical and cultural icons Swizz Beatz (Kasseem Dean) and Alicia Keys. Giants illustrates one hundred works by nearly forty multigenerational Black American, African, and African diasporic artists in the Dean Collection, hand-picked by the Brooklyn Museum for a major exhibition of the same name.
Featuring an exclusive conversation between curator Kimberli Gant and Swizz Beatz and Alicia Keys, as well as ten interviews with significant artists in the collection, this exciting book brings together these "giants" of the art world to embody the Dean's collecting philosophy : "by the artist, for the artist, with th people".
The first book to showcase selections from the groundbreaking Dean Collection of Swizz Beatz and Alicia Keys, accompanying a major exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum. Giants : Art from the Dean Collection of Swizz Beatz and Alicia Keyx celebrates selections from the world-class collection of musical and cultural icons Swizz Beatz (Kasseem Dean) and Alicia Keys. Giants illustrates one hundred works by nearly forty multigenerational Black American, African, and African diasporic artists in the Dean Collection, hand-picked by the Brooklyn Museum for a major exhibition of the same name.
Featuring an exclusive conversation between curator Kimberli Gant and Swizz Beatz and Alicia Keys, as well as ten interviews with significant artists in the collection, this exciting book brings together these "giants" of the art world to embody the Dean's collecting philosophy : "by the artist, for the artist, with th people".