RICHMOND, Va. (WWBT) - The “Giants” art exhibit from the Dean Collection of Swizz Beatz and Alicia Keys opened at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, featuring more than 130 works of art by 40 Black artists from across the United States and around the world.

The exhibit’s walls highlight diversity and different perspectives through art.

Takisha Ogunyemi brought her two sons, Amir and Nasir, to see the collection.

“It shows people from around the world, different places that are familiar to me, like New York and Brooklyn and the Bronx,” Ogunyemi said. “People don’t know how that looks outside of their own culture or neighborhood. So, to see pieces like that in a museum, it really was breathtaking.”

Her son Amir said the exhibit was inspiring.

“It was very inspirational and like empowerin

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