{"id":964777,"date":"2026-11-15T00:54:11","date_gmt":"2026-11-15T00:54:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/964777\/"},"modified":"2026-11-15T00:54:11","modified_gmt":"2026-11-15T00:54:11","slug":"swizz-beatz-alicia-keys-to-bring-acclaimed-art-collection-to-the-baltimore-museum-of-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/964777\/","title":{"rendered":"Swizz Beatz, Alicia Keys to bring acclaimed art collection to the Baltimore Museum of Art"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Baltimore Museum of Art is making another big splash.<\/p>\n

Nearly a year after Amy Sherald broke BMA attendance records<\/a> with \u201cAmerican Sublime,\u201d it will soon be Swizz Beatz and Alicia Keys\u2019 turn to take over the city\u2019s premier art museum.<\/p>\n

\u201cGiants: Art from the Dean Collection of Swizz Beatz and Alicia Keys\u201d will run at the BMA from April 18, 2027, to Aug. 8, 2027, the museum announced Saturday night at its annual BMA Ball gala.<\/p>\n

The exhibition will feature approximately 130 works by Black 20th- and 21st-century artists from the personal collection of Swizz Beatz and Keys, the hip-hop and R&B power couple who married in 2010.<\/p>\n

Notable artists with works in the exhibit include Maryland Institute College of Art alumna Sherald, Baltimore native Derrick Adams<\/a>, photographer Gordon Parks, video artist Arthur Jafa and painter Mickalene Thomas, among others.<\/p>\n

\"Derrick“Woman in Grayscale (Alicia),” pigmented inkjet print by Derrick Adams. (Glenn Steigelman)\"Derrick“Man in Grayscale (Swizz),” pigmented inkjet print by Derrick Adams. (Glenn Steigelman)<\/p>\n

\u201cWith a few of the featured artists calling Baltimore home, this installment feels so meaningful,\u201d Alicia Keys and Swizz Beatz said in a statement. \u201cWe\u2019re honored to bring Giants to a city whose spirit embodies everything the exhibition celebrates.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cSeeing these extraordinary artists brought together through the vision and stewardship of Swizz Beatz and Alicia Keys creates a powerful opportunity to celebrate the innovation and influence of Black artistic practice across generations,\u201d said Asma Naeem, the BMA\u2019s director, in a statement.<\/p>\n

\u201cGiants\u201d offers art fans another chance to see Sherald\u2019s acclaimed portraits of Black American life<\/a> at the BMA. <\/p>\n

Sherald\u2019s \u201cAmerican Sublime,\u201d which ran from November 2025 to this April, was a massive hit for the museum. More than 70,000 visitors saw it, according to the BMA, making it the most attended exhibit in at least the last 26 years.<\/p>\n

\u201cGiants\u201d will feature Sherald\u2019s 2022 diptych \u201cDeliverance,\u201d which was inspired by Baltimore\u2019s dirt bike culture. The Columbus, Georgia, native lived and worked in Baltimore from 2001 to 2018.<\/p>\n

While the BMA is free to enter, \u201cGiants\u201d will require a purchased ticket. Tickets will go on sale in March.<\/p>\n

Organized by the Brooklyn Museum, \u201cGiants\u201d debuted in New York in February 2024 and has since toured across the country, with stops at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts and the Minneapolis Institute of Art. Most recently, the Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields hosted the exhibit.<\/p>\n

Before \u201cGiants\u201d opens, locals can enjoy Keys\u2019 music on a Baltimore theater stage: \u201cHell\u2019s Kitchen,\u201d the Broadway musical based on her life, opens at the Hippodrome<\/a> on Tuesday and runs through Sunday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Baltimore Museum of Art is making another big splash. Nearly a year after Amy Sherald broke BMA…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":964778,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[449,458,459,64,63,460,134,99799],"class_list":["post-964777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-featured-imagepair"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/964777","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=964777"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/964777\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/964778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=964777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=964777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=964777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}