CULTURE CLUB
Kambui Olujimi Brings a Fine Art Crowd to Lincoln Center
The legendary venue may be better known for the performing arts, but on a recent weekend in early October, the Brooklyn-based artist took over the David Rubenstein atrium to host his first art symposium. Through a series of panels and performances featuring a number of notable artist-peers, Olujimi expanded on the conversation he started with his exhibition “North Star: Meditations on Weightlessness,” in which his work explored a singular question: “What does the Black body, devoid of the ‘inescapable’ gravity of oppression, look like?”
BY JENNA ADRIAN-DIAZ
October 16, 2023
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Kambui Olujimi, Naomi Beckwith, Louis Chude-Sokei, Nayland Blake
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Kambui Olujimi, Jordana Leigh
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Hank Willis Thomas, Kambui Olujimi, Christopher Myers
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Sanford Biggers
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Liz Gre
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X’unei Lance Twitchell, Yasi Alipour, Amaryllis R. Flowers, Christopher Myers
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Victoria Adukwei Bulley, Kambui Olujimi
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Sandra Jackson-Dumont
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Dr. Chanda Prescod-Weinstein
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