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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?”

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?”

Kambui Olujimi, Naomi Beckwith, Louis Chude-Sokei, Nayland Blake
Kambui Olujimi, Jordana Leigh
Hank Willis Thomas, Kambui Olujimi, Christopher Myers
Sanford Biggers
Liz Gre
X’unei Lance Twitchell, Yasi Alipour, Amaryllis R. Flowers, Christopher Myers
Victoria Adukwei Bulley, Kambui Olujimi
Sandra Jackson-Dumont
Dr. Chanda Prescod-Weinstein
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