This week on The Art Career Emily sits down in the empty galleries of, Giants: Art from the Dean Collection, with Kimberli Gant, Curator of Modern & Contemporary Art at the Brooklyn Museum. 

Kimberly Gant  has curated numerous exhibitions and gallery reinstallations including the Giants: Art from the Dean Collection of Swizz Beatz & Alicia Keys, Spike Lee: Creative Sources (20023-2024), A Movement in Every Direction: Legacies of the Great Migration (2003), and Black Orpheus: Jacob Lawrence & the Mbari Club (2022). Gant received her PhD in Art History from the University of Texas Austin (2017), and holds both a MA and BA in Art History from Columbia University (2009) and Pitzer College (2002). Gant has published scholarly work  in academic books, such as Anywhere But Here: Black Intellectuals in the Atlantic World and Beyond (2015), art publications such as NKA: Journal of Contemporary African Art, Art Lies and African Arts, and exhibition catalogues for The Brooklyn Museum, the Chrysler Museum, The Newark Museum, The Contemporary Austin, the Studio Museum of Harlem, MoCADA, Paris Photo, and the Centre for Contemporary Art Lagos. A huge thanks to Swiss Beats and Alicia Keys for understanding the importance of artists supporting artists.

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