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On Display: Art from the Dean Collection, Clare Rojas, Kehinde Wiley & More

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Giants: Art from the Dean Collection of Swizz Beatz and Alicia Keys @ The High Museum of Art | Atlanta, GA — Through January 19, 2025

Over the past 25 years, Swizz Beatz (Kasseem Dean) and Alicia Keys have acquired a world-class collection of paintings, photographs, and sculptures by diverse, multigenerational artists including Gordon Parks, Qualeasha Wood, Mickalene Thomas, Titus Kaphar, Kwame Brathwaite, Odili Donald Odita, Derrick Adams, Toyin Ojih Odutola, Ebony G. Patterson, Nick Cave and others. 

Clare Rojas: Past the Present @ Bechtler Museum of Modern Art | Charlotte, NC — Through January 19, 2025
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ON DISPLAY – The Vault @ The Mint Museum, CLT

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Organized by guest curator Jessica Gaynelle Moss, The Vault highlights the significant responsibility and privilege that comes with being a custodian of Black art.

This exhibit features objects from the private collections of four prominent Black art collectors living in Charlotte: Judy and Patrick Diamond, Nina and James Jackson, Christy and Quincy Lee, and Cheryse and Christopher Terry.

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ON DISPLAY – Guiding Winds: Rosalia Torres-Weiner

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In many ways, the various art exhibitions, maps, explanations, installations and other displays in museum galleries throughout the world illustrate the history of humanity – a collection of stories about groups of people moving and migrating over land and water, carrying their cultural practices and ancestral heritage with them.

“Art is powerful and not just to hang on the wall,” says Rosalía Torres-Weiner. “It’s a weapon to express our stories.”

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