A big B’Day gift: Beyoncé gives $2m to the Studio Museum in Harlem

Beyoncé marked her 45th birthday on 4 September by donating $2m to the Studio Museum in Harlem, alongside releasing a deluxe anniversary edition of her 2006 album B’Day. The gift comes just under a year after the museum reopened in a new $300m, 82,000-sq.-ft building on 125th Street designed by Adjaye Associates with Cooper Robertson as executive architect. Museum director and chief curator Thelma Golden said the donation will help expand the institution’s work for Harlem, New York, and global audiences. The article also notes Beyoncé and Jay-Z’s art collecting, including two Jean-Michel Basquiat paintings from 1982, and that the museum displays Basquiat’s Bayou (1984) in its permanent collection.

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