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Earlier this year, the Brooklyn Museum presented a major showcase of artworks from the personal collection of Swizz Beatz and Alicia Keys. Now, the High Museum of Art in Atlanta will be the next institution to host the collection of monumental works from the couple’s blue-chip holdings. Entitled ‘Giants: Art from the Dean Collection of Swizz Beatz and Alicia Keys,’ the presentation will run from September 13, 2024 through January 19, 2025. ‘Giants’ highlights a curated selection of works from Swizz Beatz and Alicia Keys’ Dean Collection, focusing on Black diasporic artists across generations. Featured artists include 20th-century icons like Nick Cave, Lorna Simpson, and Barkley L. Hendricks, as well as contemporary voices such as Deana Lawson, Amy Sherald, and Ebony G. Patterson. The exhib...

The intersection of where basketball meets culture has stood as a core pillar to Victor Solomon's work over the past decade. Amongst his many hoop-inspired interventions, the Boston-born, Los Angeles-based artist repaired an entire court inspired by the Japanese art of Kintsugi, which emphasizes seeing beauty in the broken. On a bigger scale, Solomon was tapped by the NBA to redesign all of its trophies, from the G League to the Larry O'Brien, as well as newer honors, such as the NBA All Star Trophies. Solomon's returns to the court once more through a new sculptural backboard made entirely of a mirror polished stainless steel. Dubbed The Portal, the artwork features a minimally coarse rim against a curvilinear surface that distorts a person's image as they move in-and-around the backboard...

For Playmobil’s 50th Anniversary Artist Project, ten artists will come together in support of Save the Children, the world’s largest independent children’s rights organization. Leading up to the event, participants transformed white 1.5-meter Playmobil figures into unique artifacts of creative expression. The ten artworks are to be unveiled at Berlin’s Beinghunted. Gallery on August 30, and auctioned online shortly after.All proceeds will go towards Save the Children Germany e.V., an international aid organization that advocates for the rights and protections of children around the world. On the heels of their half-century celebration, Playmobil brings attention to how toys are more than relics of cultural nostalgia, but also powerful art objects that can transform the livelihood of childr...

Few cities experience the seasons like New York. Whether frigid, temperate or ferociously hot, dealing with that interplay between quaint and downright apocalyptic is one of the hallmarks of being a New Yorker. Just ask Alex Katz, the beloved SoHo-based artist whose painted the faces and landscapes he's observed in-and-around his community since the 1950s. Just uptown at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), Katz is showcasing four new monumental paintings that chronicle the changing of the seasons. Joining a series of over 100 works he's created in his studio since 2022, Katz often begins through images he takes on his iPhone — later sketching out the observations that piqued his interests, which eventually develop into the massive wall-to-wall paintings on view at MoMA. The resulting composit...

‘Public Life’ is a dance between the personal and the public. Presented by Toxic Arts Gallery in London’s East End, the group exhibition brings together a dozen international artists whose works encourage its viewers to reimagine the contemporary art experience.“By using spaces with energy – places that are a little rough around the edges – we want to break down those boundaries and make the everyday viewer feel more welcome,” Toxic Arts’ Harry Barrat tells Dazed. The show’s name pays homage to the venue, Public Life nightclub, an ex-public toilet turned capsule club that rose to prominence during the mid-2000s party scene. An old home to micro-raves and untamed afters, ‘Public Life’ finds charm in the grit and grime.Against the bright white walls of a traditional gallery space, the works ...

The Ministry of Culture, Sports, and Tourism and Korea Arts Management Service present the fifth edition of the Special Exhibition of Outstanding Artists, ‘DIALOGUE: I Am Because We Are’, curated by Hzone founder, Daehyung Lee. Located at Hwigyumjae in Seoul, the show brings together seven artists whose work channel play and poeticism to challenge anthropocentric norms. In conversation with the visual themes of the exhibition, further publication will include interviews between seven contemporary curators and featured artists.The title draws from Ubuntu philosophy, bringing light to themes of mutual dependence and symbiosis. In a rejection of individualism, à la Descartes, the selection of works seek to expand our approach to “the other” to encompass humans, living forms, and immaterial en...