The King’s Exhibition

The King’s Exhibition

The King’s Exhibition

The King’s Exhibition

Curated by Dr. Glenn Toby

Curated by Dr. Glenn Toby

Curated by Dr. Glenn Toby

Every generation crowns its own.

Every generation crowns its own.

Every generation crowns its own.

Every generation crowns its own.

Two Basquiat works of art, from the collection of Dr. Glenn Toby. They are moving between cities, and the next room has not been announced.

Two Basquiat works of art, from the collection of Dr. Glenn Toby. They are moving between cities, and the next room has not been announced.

Two Basquiat works of art, from the collection of Dr. Glenn Toby. They are moving between cities, and the next room has not been announced.

Two Basquiat works of art, from the collection of Dr. Glenn Toby. They are moving between cities, and the next room has not been announced.

Enter Our Gallery

  • Atlanta ✦ SoHo, New York ✦ Columbia, South Carolina ✦ Miami ✦ Atlanta ✦ SoHo, New York ✦ Columbia, South Carolina ✦ Miami ✦

The exhibition

Two works. The next room has not been announced.

They travel because most people will otherwise never stand in front of one. Where they go next is decided by who asks.

Works

Two

Portfolio

Portfolio I

Work date

1983 / 2001

After Jean-Michel Basquiat · From the collection of Dr. Glenn Toby

Where They Have Been

Why this exists

Recognition arrives late, and at the wrong address.

01

The work was made on the street’s terms. It should not require an appointment.

The work was made on the street’s terms. It should not require an appointment.

The work was made on the street’s terms. It should not require an appointment.

02

A private public inheritance.

A private public inheritance.

A private public inheritance.

03

Dr. Glenn Toby holds a position that is simple and slightly inconvenient. The audience does not travel to the work. The work travels.

Curated moments

Six rooms, 2019 to 2024

What the room felt like, before anyone photographed it.

Miami Art Week

Art Basel ⁄ BitBasel

The market showed up. So did everybody else.

The King’s Exhibition

Atlanta, Georgia

Fifty years of a language nobody asked permission to speak.

The King’s Exhibition

Columbia, South Carolina

A city meets a painter it had only ever read about.

Art In Motion

The King’s Exhibition, SoHo, New York City

Back on the Bowery, where none of it was ever supposed to happen.

The Journey

The King’s Exhibition, films and moving images

The first room. Nobody knew yet.

October

Atlanta, Georgia

Four floors, and the work refused to be the loudest thing in the building.

In motion

Six films · One at a time · Sound on your terms

Footage from rooms you were not in.

01
Miami Art Week BitBasel
Art Week, and a room that would not empty.
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Miami Art Week BitBasel
02
The King’s Exhibition
03
Exhibition Highlights
04
The Experience
05
Art in Motion
06
The Journey

Past editions

Archive · Authenticated

The rooms it has already held.

01
01Atlanta, GA · October 2019
The High Rise Show
Four floors, and the work refused to be the loudest thing in the building.
WhereGIRAFFE, 34 Peachtree Street · Atlanta, GA
WhenOctober 2019
Presented withFulton County Arts & Culture · ShowerHaus · The Goat Farm
The King’s Exhibition flyer, Atlanta, GA
02Atlanta, GA · 7 to 24 October 2019
The King’s Exhibition
The first room. Nobody knew yet.
WhereFulton County Southwest Arts Center · Atlanta, GA
When7 to 24 October 2019
Presented withFulton County Arts & Culture
The King’s Exhibition, NYC Tour flyer, SoHo, New York
03SoHo, New York · 17 December 2019
The King’s Exhibition, NYC Tour
Back on the Bowery, where none of it was ever supposed to happen.
WherePop International Galleries, 195 Bowery · SoHo, New York
When17 December 2019
Presented withPop International Galleries · The Book Bank Foundation
The King’s Exhibition Tour flyer, Columbia, SC
04Columbia, SC · 22 February 2020
The King’s Exhibition Tour
A city meets a painter it had only ever read about.
WhereHilton Garden Inn, 1200 Pickens St · Columbia, SC
When22 February 2020
Presented withNite & Day Consultants · Glenn Toby Art Gallery
50th Anniversary of Hip-Hop Film Fest flyer, Atlanta, GA
05Atlanta, GA · 30 September 2023
50th Anniversary of Hip-Hop Film Fest
Fifty years of a language nobody asked permission to speak.
WhereTara Atlanta, 2345 Cheshire Bridge Rd NE · Atlanta, GA
When30 September 2023
Presented withFulton County Arts & Culture · Atlanta Film Society
BitBasel · Miami Art Week flyer, Miami Beach, FL
06Miami Beach, FL · 7 December 2025
BitBasel · Miami Art Week
The market showed up. So did everybody else.
WhereSagamore Hotel South Beach · Miami Beach, FL
When7 December 2025
Presented withBitBasel · Morris Lapidus Foundation
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To Be Announced.
Six rooms have already happened. Where it goes next is decided by who asks.
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Full archive, with press credits

Press

Coverage is listed separately from announcements

Coverage is listed separately from announcements

Who wrote it down.

Coverage

World Red Eye

Photo coverage of the 7 December 2025 evening at the Sagamore, naming Dr. Glenn Toby as curator.

Atlanta Daily World

On the Fulton County Arts & Culture presentations at Southwest Arts Center and GIRAFFE, September 2019.

ABC Columbia

On the February 2020 evening in Columbia, South Carolina.

Announcements

Issued by the exhibition

Announcements issued by The King’s Exhibition and its partners are listed here rather than under coverage. A release is a document we wrote. It is not reporting about us.

For institutions

Bring it to your room.

The works travel because most people will otherwise never stand in front of one. They have been shown in a county arts center in southwest Atlanta with free public admission, alongside one hundred Georgia artists on Peachtree Street, and in rooms in Columbia and Miami Beach. Where they go next is decided by who asks.

What travels

Two framed works, their documentation, and condition notes prepared from direct examination. The collection travels with the works.

What we ask of a room

Secure wall space, controlled light, and a host willing to open the doors to the public rather than to a list. Arts centers, museums, schools, libraries and festivals are all welcome to ask.

What it supports

Proceeds from these evenings have gone to The Book Bank Foundation, the 501(c)(3) founded by Dr. Glenn Toby, which works on literacy, hunger and homelessness in Atlanta and New York.

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For artists

The walls are not finished.

The exhibition travels, and every room is built from what arrives. Artists working in any medium are invited to submit work for consideration in the mobile gallery. Tell us who you are and what you make.

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Hidden works

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Some works are meant to be encountered, not previewed. Access is granted by request.

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After Jean-Michel Basquiat

Untitled (Per Capita)

Untitled (Per Capita)

Untitled (Per Capita)

Portfolio I

A crowned figure stands alone, one fist raised, the other holding a torch. Around him Basquiat sets down the language of the state: a Latin motto, a list of places, a column of numbers.

A crowned figure stands alone, one fist raised, the other holding a torch. Around him Basquiat sets down the language of the state: a Latin motto, a list of places, a column of numbers.

A crowned figure stands alone, one fist raised, the other holding a torch. Around him Basquiat sets down the language of the state: a Latin motto, a list of places, a column of numbers.

A crowned figure stands alone, one fist raised, the other holding a torch. Around him Basquiat sets down the language of the state: a Latin motto, a list of places, a column of numbers.

After Jean-Michel Basquiat

Untitled (Rinso)

Untitled (Rinso)

Untitled (Rinso)

Portfolio I

A soap brand, painted like a monument. Basquiat took the commercial alphabet he grew up inside and gave it the scale and seriousness of history painting.

A soap brand, painted like a monument. Basquiat took the commercial alphabet he grew up inside and gave it the scale and seriousness of history painting.

A soap brand, painted like a monument. Basquiat took the commercial alphabet he grew up inside and gave it the scale and seriousness of history painting.

A soap brand, painted like a monument. Basquiat took the commercial alphabet he grew up inside and gave it the scale and seriousness of history painting.

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The legacy wall

Names that keep showing up in the same sentence.

  • Basquiat · SAMO© with Al Diaz · Brooklyn · The Bowery · Per Capita · Rinso · Basquiat · SAMO© with Al Diaz · Brooklyn · The Bowery · Per Capita · Rinso ·

  • Run-DMC · Barbara Tucker · PeeWee Kirkland · Jeff Jaffe · Gerard Basquiat · Fulton County · Run-DMC · Barbara Tucker · PeeWee Kirkland · Jeff Jaffe · Gerard Basquiat · Fulton County ·

  • Atlanta · SoHo · Columbia · Miami · Bebop · Charlie Parker · The Book Bank Foundation · Atlanta · SoHo · Columbia · Miami · Bebop · Charlie Parker · The Book Bank Foundation ·

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Dates and cities are released to the list before they are released anywhere else.

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