Producer and Art Collector Benny Blanco Featured in People Magazine

Benny Blanco, the Grammy-nominated songwriter and producer, was lately featured in Folks Journal‘s 2024 “Sexiest Man Alive” concern, alongside together with his artwork assortment.

Blanco was photographed by the journal in his dwelling in Los Angeles. In a single {photograph}, Blanco is featured on his eating room desk subsequent to a plate of nachos, framed entrance of the George Rental portrait The Musician.

“I sort of assume it seems like me,” he advised Architectural Digest earlier this yr, in reference to the Rental portray. “I identical to having artwork all around the home, as a result of I don’t know what emotion the particular person had once they have been making it, however I see sure issues once I stroll previous it and it’d encourage me and I would take a look at it in another way one other day and be like, holy shit, like, I by no means observed that one, like, stroke there or, like, that imperfection proper there and I don’t know, it makes me pleased.”

Along with the Rental portray, the Architectural Digest profile on Blanco’s dwelling showcased his in depth artwork assortment, which he described as “high-low.” Modern artists function closely—Martin Wong, Nicholas Devlin, Amia Yokoyama, Jean-Michel Basquiat, and Andy Warhol, simply to call just a few—with a scattering of recent artists like Salvador Dali. Additionally noticed was a plate embellished by the youngsters of Jonas Wooden; a chair sculpture made out of baguettes by Lola Abbey; a tall ceramic by Jasmine Little, Raul Nieves’s Gargoyle 2 wall sculpture; Tomory Dodge’s portray Association, in addition to a white bear bench from AP Assortment. A number of plush flowers by Takashi Murakami embellish an oversize brown sectional in Blanco’s TV room.

Blanco additionally attended the Frieze Los Angeles artwork honest in 2022.