Swizz Beatz (Kasseem Dean) and Alicia Keys are pop-culture and musical icons. Swizz is a legendary, Grammy Award–winning record producer, DJ, visionary, and businessman, and Keys is a 16-time Grammy Award–winning singer, songwriter, musician, producer, and businesswoman widely referred to as the ‘Queen of R&B.’ Major collectors and connoisseurs, the husband-and-wife team are the founders of the Dean Collection, their philanthropic organization and family collection of international contemporary art, and strong advocates for artists through their other creative platforms, including the Dean’s Choice concept, the art-and-music festival No Commission, and the artist residency Dreamland. Kimberli Gant  is Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Brooklyn Museum. Gant was formerly the McKinnon Curator of Modern & Contemporary Art at the Chrysler Museum in Norfolk, Virginia, and her publications include Anywhere But Here: Black Intellectuals in the Atlantic World and Beyond (2015). Artist biographies by Indira A. Abiskaroon, Curatorial Assistant of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Brooklyn Museum.

Praise for the Brooklyn Museum’s Giants exhibit as seen in the New York Times, Vanity Fair, and Wall Street Journal'The musical luminaries have a keen eye for art and have built a stunning collection of works by Black artists with the aim of writing their own cultural narrative.' - Wall Street JournalAn essential history and anticipated future.' - Essence'Moments like these ensure the continued prosperity of Black art.' - Artsy'A celebration of Blackness and an ode to living life monumentally.' - Thrillist'[A] triumph.' - Artnet News'That’s what I enjoyed about this show: its big-hearted vibe, its generous spirit.' - The Washington Post'Substantial and boldly designed … an encyclopedic necessity for anyone interested in contemporary art.' - Vanity Fair'Our strategy is collecting from the heart…The reason why we doubled down on artists of color is because much of 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. We want you to see that you are also a giant, that you are special, incredible, unique, one of a kind.' - Alicia Keys