\'Our strategy is collecting from the heart...
The reason why we double down on artists of color is because our own community wasn\'t collecting these giants.\' - Swizz Beatz \'We want people to see themselves...
We want you to see the giants on whose shoulders we stand.
Patterson
Deborah Roberts
Tschabalala Self
Jamel Shabazz
Amy Sherald
Malick Sidibé
Lorna Simpson
Sanlé Sory
Vaughn Spann
Henry Taylor
Hank Willis Thomas
Mickalene Thomas
Kehinde Wiley
Qualeasha Wood
Kennedy Yanko; and Lynette Yiadom-Boakye..
Hendricks
Arthur Jafa
Titus Kaphar
Jerome Lagarrigue
Deana Lawson
Esther Mahlangu
Meleko Mokgosi
Odili Donald Odita
Toyin Ojih Odutola
Zohra Opoku
Frida Orupabo
Gordon Parks
Ebony G.
Both book and exhibition bring together these \'giants\' of the art world to embody and highlight the Deans\' collecting philosophy: \'by the artist, for the artist, with the people.\' Featured artists : Nina Chanel Abney
Derrick Adams
Radcliffe Bailey
Ernie Barnes
Jean-Michel Basquiat
Jarvis Boyland
Kwame Brathwaite
Jordan Casteel
Nick Cave
Hassan Hajjaj
Barkley L.
Patterson
Jamel Shabazz
Amy Sherald
Mickalene Thomas; and Kehinde Wiley.
The book also features an exclusive conversation between curator Kimberli Gant and Swizz Beatz and Alicia Keys, as well as interviews with ten legendary artists: Derrick Adams
Kwame Brathwaite\'s son, Kwame Samori Brathwaite
Jordan Casteel
Nick Cave
Titus Kaphar
Ebony G.
Giants illustrates 100 works by nearly 40 multigenerational Black American, African, and African diasporic artists in the Dean Collection, hand-picked and curated by the Brooklyn Museum for a major exhibition of the same name.
We want you to see that you are also a giant, that you are special, incredible, unique, one of a kind.\' - Alicia Keys 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 Keys celebrates selections from the world-class Collection of musical and cultural icons Swizz Beatz (Kasseem Dean) and Alicia Keys. \'Our strategy is collecting from the heart...
The reason why we double down on artists of color is because our own community wasn\'t collecting these giants.\' - Swizz Beatz \'We want people to see themselves...
We want you to see the giants on whose shoulders we stand
