Brian Keith Jackson

shades of cool 💙🦋🌊

VIBE Fashion: ‘The Player’s Club’ “The streets have long had a major impact on fashion. Now hip hop and urban music are setting the trends.“ This fun club themed editorial from VIBE magazine not only has a feel-good energy about it but has some cool hidden gems as well. Antoinette wears the rare Lucien Pellat-Finet sweater with graphics by Takashi Murakami on slide 5-6. Dao-Yi Chow can be seen rocking a sporty suit and hat by Tom Ford for Gucci. A young Channing Tatum can be found on slide 9-10. Other cameos include J Alexander Martin of FUBU, Tony Shellman and Chaka Wilson of Mecca and Enyce, photographer Barron Claiborne, model Tyson Beckford, among many others If you’re able to spot anyone I missed, tag them in the comments! Photos: @roxannelowit Styling: Michael Nash Scans from VIBE Magazine September 2003.

New illustration for @nytopinion @nytimes “Grief has a rhythm. Nature knows it” by Brian Keith Jackson, about the feeling of grief and how it involved change. 🌱🥀 “As the mother bird calls out for her fledglings, I wish I could call out to my mother. Who should I call now when my plane lands? Who will have relief and joy in their voice, knowing I have arrived safely?” ❤️‍🩹 #illustration #nyt #nytopinion

Book of the day: Shade, edited by Bruce Morrow and Charles H. Rowell • subtitled An Anthology of Fiction by Gay Men of African Descent • published in 1996 • 22 contributors • “many selections reenvision traditional African-American themes by exploring them from a gay perspective”

Sometimes I don't have the words, but I know someone out there does. The perfect words. R/P from @briankeithjackson

#ArtBaselStories The art of the fight: William H. Johnson’s freedom warriors. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Art and activism intersect in the African American painter’s landmark exhibition at the @frostscience . Learn more in @briankeithjackson ’s article on Art Basel Stories via the [link in bio] — Shown here: #WilliamHJohnson, Women Builders, 1945. Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of the Harmon Foundation. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ The William H. Johnson exhibition ‘Fighters for Freedom’ at the Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum FIU is on view through January 4, 2025. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ #ArtBaselMiamiBeach will take place from December 6 to 8, 2024.

#tbt Opening night of the new @kehindewiley “A Maze Of Power” show was a definite highlight of my time in #Paris. More than a decade in the making and more than worth the wait, the historic @quaibranly exhibit features 11 past and current African presidents and invites viewers to wrestle with ideas ranging from the vestiges of colonialism to the thorny complexities of true power on the continent. As we’ve come to expect, the work is outstanding (and the presidential fashion is giving)! Beyond proud of you K. Standing ovation. Slow clap. Bravo. ❤️🎉💪🏾

Celebrating the harvest of an 11-year journey and cementing his position as one of the most important Black Artists of the century in the discourse of historical representation, @KehindeWiley ‘A maze of power’ might be his best body of work, yet. A first never-seen-before portraiture of past and current African Presidents through a candid, human, yet powerful lens stripping the public from political aversion — or not — This exhibition opens a wider conversation on the importance of factual documentation of the very complex History and power dynamics of an entire continent, unfolding right in front of our eyes. Art at its best. Thought-provoking and beautiful. Peep my favorite portrait in the end, the video doesn’t pay justice, but the details and colors of the kente are out of this world 🖤 On view @QuaiBranly until January 14, 2023. #KehindeWiley #Art

@KehindeWiley ‘A Maze of Power’ opening night at @quaibranly 🖤 Paris — Sept 25, 2023 #KehindeWiley #QuaiBranly #Art

Another equestrian in the family. 😂

Puerto Vallarta, Summer 2023 🇲🇽

@bootsriley ’s I’m A Virgo on @primevideo is exceptional. Hats off to you, @jharreljerome , and the entire team behind its creation. 👏🏽 Watch it.