Rashid Johnson. He remembers the TV set being rolled into his elementary-school classroom in Evanston, Ill.He remembers ...

showcasing art owned by musicians Alicia Keys and Swizz Beatz, is titled “Giants.” But the focus on going big is figurative, too. A cool show at the Minnesota Museum of American Art explores ...

McArthur Binion, a painter who took Johnson under his wing in the graduate program at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, noticed right away that he had all the ingredients to make it big.