[yoyosh]

So this post started over in the Swoon section. Between IG and twitter there's no shortage of musicians (especially rappers) showing off their art collections. @speebe and I thought a post might be fun.
Starting off with rapper/producer Swizz Beatz and his newly acquired Swoon

[yoyosh]

Here's one of my hometown (Chicago's) own Hebru Brantley with Jay Z after Jay purchased a piece at Art Basel

The piece itself entitled "Everybody's Scared"

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OG Everlast ... House of Pain

[yoyosh]

Swizz Beatz with some gifts from Damien Hirst

[randomname]

Madonna has a $120 million collection. 

[Manty]

Are they really madonnas chairs?

mwahhhhhhh

[Stoko]

she put a fecking Leger above a fecking fireplace?!?

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Madonna is awful

Musicians with art is a bit like Footballers and music - mostly really bad shite but sometimes someone decent breaks the stereotype

aint Robbie Williams got banksy stuff ?

[yoyosh]

Jay Z and Swizz Beatz pose with one of Swizz's creations

[yoyosh]

Here's the Basquiat that Jay Z purchased ($4.5 million) last year, entitled "Mecca"

[Chrisp]

Feb 19, 2014 13:07:26 GMT 1 @sceptic said:

Madonna is awful

Musicians with art is a bit like Footballers and music - mostly really bad s**te but sometimes someone decent breaks the stereotype

aint Robbie Williams got banksy stuff ?

If you were a famous musician, you would have a pretty smokey collection which would put you in the same boat

[brendan1985]

What are people's thoughts on Hebru Brantlys work? I like it but to me it's too similar and looks like a mash up between Lister and Choe.

[mutatis]

Feb 19, 2014 13:07:26 GMT 1 @sceptic said:

aint Robbie Williams got banksy stuff ?

Allegedly so! But what I want to know, is whether he keeps them in his primary residence ?

[yoyosh]

Rapper Drake posted this on his Instagram last year (March '13)...mysterious. Anyone have any idea what it could be?

[longshanks]

Feb 20, 2014 18:14:53 GMT 1 yoyosh said:

Rapper Drake posted this on his Instagram last year (March '13)...mysterious. Anyone have any idea what it could be?

vague memory of this being Christ with Shopping Bags?? could be wrong though - my memory is awful

[bone]

Feb 20, 2014 1:35:35 GMT 1 brendan1985 said:

What are people's thoughts on Hebru Brantlys work? I like it but to me it's too similar and looks like a mash up between Lister and Choe.

I can see the Choe similarities.  I'm from Chicago, but i'm embarrassed to say that I never heard of him till this thread.  How much dos his work cost?   

[yoyosh]

bone surprised you've not heard of him if you live here...his installation ("The Watch") got a lot of local coverage last summer
Finding his work for sale is the hard part, he's not done prints yet. I picked up a couple small originals at his "Penny Candy" pop up shop during Lollapalooza last year. The stuff he's sold to Jay Z, LeBron James, etc has been in the $30-50k range for large canvasses

[bone]

Feb 20, 2014 21:28:12 GMT 1 yoyosh said:

bone surprised you've not heard of him if you live here...his installation ("The Watch") got a lot of local coverage last summer
Finding his work for sale is the hard part, he's not done prints yet. I picked up a couple small originals at his "Penny Candy" pop up shop during Lollapalooza last year. The stuff he's sold to Jay Z, LeBron James, etc has been in the $30-50k range for large canvasses

Not sure how I dropped the ball on him, but will keep a close eye on him now.  I was wondering about prints, hopefully sometime soon he will drop some.  How much did small originals start at?

[nah]

Feb 20, 2014 21:28:12 GMT 1 yoyosh said:

bone surprised you've not heard of him if you live here...his installation ("The Watch") got a lot of local coverage last summer
Finding his work for sale is the hard part, he's not done prints yet. I picked up a couple small originals at his "Penny Candy" pop up shop during Lollapalooza last year. The stuff he's sold to Jay Z, LeBron James, etc has been in the $30-50k range for large canvasses

take it hes a fan of anthony lister?

[yoyosh]

Pharrell with JR

[randomname]

Feb 19, 2014 13:07:26 GMT 1 @sceptic said:

Madonna is awful

Musicians with art is a bit like Footballers and music - mostly really bad s**te but sometimes someone decent breaks the stereotype

aint Robbie Williams got banksy stuff ?

If I had to guess, she probably gives her interior designer a blank check and lets them sort it out. Either that, or she buys it because it's expensive.

Not sure on Robbie Williams. Don't even know who he is. But if I remember right, Christina Aguilera was collecting Banksy before most people knew who he is.