The Super Bowl LVIII halftime show opened with an ascendent Usher on a mirrored throne. To the surprise of 115 million viewers worldwide, he welcomed to the stage a parade of R&B and pop veterans — first up being Alicia Keys, fresh off her own glitzy celebration at the Brooklyn Museum.
Keys, together with her husband, the music producer Swizz Beatz (aka Kasseem Dean), this weekend hosted friends, artists, and fellow collectors at the opening of “Giants: Art from the Dean Collection of Swizz Beatz and Alicia Keys”, which is on view now through July 7 in the museum’s great hall.
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The buzzy show presents to the public, for the first time, some of the finest works in “The Dean Collection”, which is dedicated to contemporary Black luminaries.
The show includes paintings by Jean-Michel Basquiat, Lorna Simpson and Nina Chanel Abney, as well as monumental creations by Derrick Adams, Arthur Jafa, and Meleko Mokgosi—including the largest piece ever by Mokgos. Per the Brooklyn Museum, these large-scale works are paired with standouts from the couple’s deep holdings of Gordon Parks photography and Kehinde Wiley’s subversive historical canvases.
Take a look at the star-studded opening for Giants at the Brooklyn Museum.
Source: artnews.com