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Grandmy award-winning singer Alicia Keyes and her husband, Kaseem Dean, better known as music producer, Swiss Beats, are unveiling something big.

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We've been collecting for the past 20 years.

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For the first time, more than 100 works from the couple's private art collection, called the Dean Collection, are on display at the Brooklyn Museum. The exhibition, titled Giants, features works of nearly 40 Black artists from all over the world. I'm just imagining little kids walking through here. Can you picture it?

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On these walls in these museums. Depicted in this beautiful way.

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Yeah. It's very rare you see artists of color displaying 30-foot works. So when people walk into the show, we want them to feel like we can be as giant as we want to be.

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It's meant to also remind you that you belong in these spaces. We deserve to be on all the walls of all the giant spaces.

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Themes range from the modern day protest to celebrations, like this painting from Derek Adams We never really see photos of people of color in pools. It was just pretty cool.

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How beautiful is that?

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Just chilling.

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Giants features emerging artists and trailblazers, including photographer Gordon Parks.

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You realize we couldn't do this without all the people that came before us.

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We collect from our heart all of the artists that's living that's in the show of actual friends.

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One artist the Deans count as a close friend is Kehinde Wiley, known for his iconic 2018 portrait of President Barack Obama.

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What we do as artists is we zoom in on the everyday, the things that we take for granted, and we say this, too, is graceful.

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Now, the couple hopes to make a lasting impact.

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When you're a little kid and you have all these dreams in your head, you don't even know what's even possible. To see it happen, you know it can happen for anybody.

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Hoda Khatvi,atvi, NBC News, Brooklyn, New York.

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