Swizz Beatz and Alicia Keys‘ art collection is set to become a massive coffee table book, to be released in conjunction with an exhibit at the Brooklyn Museum.
According to a press release shared with HipHopDX, the pair will be releasing Giants: Art from the Dean Collection of Swizz Beatz and Alicia Keys on the Phaidon Books imprint in June of this year.
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The book also features an interview with the longtime married couple by Kimberli Gant, Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Brooklyn Museum. It serves as an accompaniment to an exhibition featuring Swizz and Alicia’s extensive artwork collection at the museum, which runs from February 10 to July 7.
“Our strategy is collecting from the heart,” the couple said in a statement. “You know, a lot of people call us Black collectors. We’re art collectors, and we happen to be Black. We collect artists from all over the world. The reason why we double down on artists of color is because our own community wasn’t collecting these giants.”
Swizz Beatz and Alicia Keys’s interests have branched out beyond music in recent years.
Back in November, Alicia Keys filed a trademark to launch a new tea brand, “Alicia Teas,” which was inspired by a gift from her husband.
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According to TMZ, the “No One” singer’s Alicia Worldwide company has filed a trademark for Alicia Teas to launch her tea line in the near future looking to shake up the beverage industry.
Swizz Beatz may have been the one to put the battery in Keys’ back to go forward with her own tea line. Swizz gifted AK her own brand of tea bags in 2020 for his wife’s birthday and manifested that the brand would one day be sold in Starbucks locations across the globe.
The Ruff Ryders producer gifted the line of teas to Keys at an after-party for the Grammys which she hosted in 2020.
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“Happy birthday we got endless amount of teas and everybody in Starbucks around the world you’re gonna see Alicia Teas,” Swizz Beatz said at the time. “Blessings, happy birthday, baby. Love you!”
It’s currently unclear where the Alicia Teas brand will be sold when they ultimately arrive and how much they will cost.
