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Those names aside, another enticing component of the book is undoubtedly a foreword written by Swizz Beatz, who, in addition to being an accomplished musician, is a prominent art collector. Many of the artists included in his holdings, which are known collectively as The Dean Collection, are featured in Hernandez’s book. “It made perfect sense to reach out to him; he is in many ways an ambassador for the culture. Our culture,” Hernandez comments. “I never wanted some big art academic to write the foreword, but rather someone with a powerful yet accessible voice who can talk about art.”
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Art by Stephany Torres for Remezcla. Photographs by Sunny Leerasanthanah and Jasmine Durhal. Pictured: David Antonio Cruz, Gabriella Sanchez, Jasmin Hernandez, and Firelei Báez. Book cover courtesy of Abrams.
The art world often represents some of the most elitist and exclusionary cultural gatekeeping in today’s society, and a pervasive, pernicious lack of diversity might lead many to think that Black and Brown creatives simply don’t exist in such spaces. However, despite being massively underrepresented, many Black, Indigenous and other people of color (BIPOC) individuals aren’t just working in the art world they’ve found their own radical ways to thrive in it. These are exactly the people that Jasmin Hernandez highlights in her stunning new book,