Two effervescent paintings of Baltimore-based guys riding colorful dirt bikes, popping wheelies against a bright blue background, show “Black people doing stuff,” in the words of artist Amy Sherald. Giant paintings by Meleko Mokgosi cleverly use an 18th-century European history painting style to discuss gender politics, colonialism, class and power in Botswana. Jamel Shabazz’s candid street photographs of Black people in New York from the 1980s to the mid-2010s show youth on the subway, a mother wearing a gold chain, holding her child, who’s clad in a blue puffy coat.

These are just a few of nearly 100 works in “Giants: Art from the Dean Collection of Swizz Beatz and Alicia Keys,” a show that originated at the Brooklyn Museum and opens Saturday at the Minneapolis Institute of Art.

The timing of this show is charged. It just missed Black History Month, but arrives shortly before the five-year anniversary of George Floyd’s killing by Minneapolis police. It speaks loudly to the current moment of the Trump administration’s withholding institutional and grant-based funding for exhibitions and projects by artists — including artists of color and queer people.

The show ends with Gordon Parks’ pictures of racism, segregation and the long road to the Civil Rights-era giants, bringing it all back to Minnesota. The show also features artists of the global Black diaspora from South Africa, Mali, Botswana, Morocco, Jamaica, and Burkina Faso, among other countries.

There’s much to like in this beautiful show, but there are a few quirks. The Deans mostly collect figurative work — portraying figures and objects from real life. So, that’s the majority of work in the exhibit.

Brooklyn Museum Curator Kimberli Gant didn’t want people to assume that Black diaspora artists made only large figurative work, because they don’t, so she was sure to include abstract works, sculpture and more.

“I tried to look at ‘Giants’ as a thesis, look at ways of how could we play with that title,” Gant said. “When you say ‘giants,’ what could people understand of that?”

She organized the show into four sections: “Becoming Giants,” “Giant Presence,” “Giant Conversation” and “On the Shoulders of Giants.”