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Swizz Beatz and Alicia Keys have announced that their art exhibition “Giant: Art from the Dean Collection of Swizz Beatz and Alicia Keys” will travel the world. The exhibition debuted at the Brooklyn Museum and will first be shown at the High Museum of Art in Atlanta before moving to other museums. However, dates and other details have not yet been announced. “Our mission has always been to make art accessible to everyone and to showcase the work of these extraordinary artists,” the Dean family said in a joint statement. “We quickly realized that this meant the collection had to…

The San Francisco Art Book Fair (SFABF) has announced the seventh annual multi-day exhibition at Minnesota Street Projects, showcasing print from independent publishers, artists, designers, collectors, and enthusiasts from around the world. SFABF will be open July 19-21, with a preview on Thursday, July 18 from 6-10 p.m., free and open to the public. SFABF puts the unique Bay Area history and perspectives in dialogue with the national and international publishing community. The fair features artist books, art catalogs, monographs, journals, magazines, prints and multi-artist pieces presented by 145 publishers, antique dealers, artists and galleries from the Bay Area and…

International fashion brand H&M has teamed up with the Estate of Jean-Michel Basquiat and luxury streetwear brand Who Decides War to launch a new clothing line. Unveiled in Paris on June 19, the collection celebrates Basquiat’s influence on contemporary culture. The collection was designed by Who Decides War designers Ev Bravado and Téla D’Amore and will be available in H&M stores worldwide from July 18.Founded in 2018, Who Decides War is known for its Black American aesthetic and high-profile fans, including rapper Ice Spice and the late designer Virgil Abloh. In working with the Basquiat estate, Bravado and D’Amore chose…

Artist Kehinde Wiley speaks during the unveiling of her sculpture “Rumors of War” at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts on December 10, 2019. (Photo by Zach Gibson/Getty Images) Notes to Editors: The following stories contain references to sexual assault and harassment. To contact the National Sexual Assault Hotline, call 1-800-656-HOPE (4673) or visit Online Website. Kehinde Wiley’s plaintiffs responded to concerns raised by the National Coalition Against Censorship (NCAC) about museums’ decisions to remove artists’ works following sexual assault allegations. A statement from the plaintiffs Allergic The letter, which is attached in full below, acknowledges the importance of an…

ArtMaxwell RaabVivian Maier, Self-portrait, Chicago, Illinois, 19561956. © Estate of Vivian Maier. Courtesy of the Maloof Collection and Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York.It was with the quiet click of her Rolleiflex camera that Vivian Maier captured the world around her in permanent frames. From bankers to homeless people sleeping on park benches, to couples embracing, and often even herself: the range of subjects she photographed was extraordinary in the more than 150,000 negatives she shot during her lifetime. For nearly five decades, Maier meticulously documented the life around her wherever she went. Yet her works remained private, stored in boxes…

Welcome to Issue 240 of Landscapes on the Easel, a series in which artists reflect on their workspaces. This week, artists build their own studios, make their own paper, and cherish the creative community around them. Want to participate? Check out our submission guidelines and share a little about your studio with us via this form! All mediums and workspaces are welcome, including your home studio. Cheryl Edwards, Washington, D.C. Describe a typical day in your studio. I wake up early and sit on the porch with a cup of coffee. I thank the day and then start painting. In…

Art MarketMaxwell RaabPortrait of Jonathan Carver Moore. Photo by Kari Orvik. Courtesy of Jonathan Carver MooreJonathan Carver Moore often walks his dog past his eponymous gallery on Market Street in San Francisco’s Tenderloin district and stops to listen to passersby’s reactions to the artworks in the giant glass windows. It may seem like a simple eavesdropping exercise, but for Moore it’s a serious effort to take the local community’s opinions into account.“I know what it’s like to be an outsider,” Moore tells Artsy. As the first openly gay black male gallerist in San Francisco, Moore opened his gallery with the…

Taipei – There is another capital beneath the waves The exhibition at the Fengjia Museum guides visitors through three exhibition halls. The exhibition is a collaboration between artists Xu Jiawei, Zhang Tingtong and Zheng Xianyu, and includes two films that reveal the entanglement between the Taiwanese and Japanese sugar industries, namely “Crystal Seedlings” and the work of the same name. The film installation reflects on the conflict between commercial, colonial and manipulative forces that drive the course of history, opening one scene and unveiling the next, just like the passage of time. The exhibition begins in a building from the…

This autumn, the Courtauld Gallery will present Monet and London: Views of the Thames, an exhibition of paintings created by Claude Monet during his visits to London between 1899 and 1901. This is the first exhibition in the UK dedicated to these works, fulfilling the artist’s dream of showing them in London. The exhibition will open on 27 September 2024 and run until 19 January 2025 at the Savoy Hotel, just 300 metres from where Monet created these works. Monet’s most famous paintings come from his time in the French countryside. However, in recent years, his London series has gained…

There are many memorable moments in the new biography Candy Darling: Dreamer, Idol, Superstarby critics and former Village Voice Columnist Cynthia Carr. Sources say that Peter Hujar, whose prolific and sensitive record of queer New York in the 1970s and 1980s included a striking photograph of Darin on his deathbed, died 13 years later in the same room when the hospital floor was converted into a care center for people living with HIV. Carr also reveals that Darin’s funeral took place in the same room at Campbell Funeral Home on the Upper East Side as Judy Garland’s—a Hollywood connection Darin…