Source: The Billie Holiday Theatre
A popular memorial statue The Notorious BIG will return to Brooklyn for a special exhibit on Black resistance and music in time Black History Month.
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Source: The Billie Holiday Theatre
On Friday (February 9), The Billie Holiday Theatre announced that it would host Sky's The Limit: Music Is My Resistance, an art exhibition. At the center of the exhibition will be the impressive statue dedicated to a beloved son of the borough, the late Christopher “The Notorious BIG” Wallace aka Biggie. The statue, created by artist Sherwin Banfield, is titled: 'Sky's the Limit in the County of Kings' and will be in the theater during the exhibition.
The exhibition is also planned to feature smaller sculptures from Banfield's extensive portfolio of work, in addition to paintings, prints and sculptures by a range of other artists. All works will be on display in the lobby of The Billie Holiday Theatre, located in Bedford-Stuyvesant minutes away from where The Notorious BIG grew up. The exhibition will open on February 15 with a reception that will include a Q&A session with Banfield. The Queens, New York natives will return to the theater on February 28 for an artist talk about resistance with the Hip-Hop icon and his host Video Music BoxRalph McDaniels and Hip-Hop historian Leroy McCarty. Sky's The Limit: Music Is My Resistance it will be free to the public until May 30.
“Music and the arts have always been the cornerstone of Black expression through which we can authentically tell our stories. For this exhibition, we wanted to highlight how vital music has been to the Black experience as it relates to resistance, and we wanted to do it in a uniquely Brooklyn way,” said Shadawn Smith, executive director of The Billie Holiday Theater in the announcement. “With the sculpture of Biggie as the centerpiece, Sherwin Banfield is the perfect partner to help us bring this vision to life.”
“Notorious BIG is the truest representation of Brooklyn. His poetry is peppered with references to Brooklyn throughout his short but impressive career. By immortalizing The Notorious BIG in a revered monument, we present a unique cultural and educational opportunity for his community and his millions of fans around the world to experience this monument in BIG's Bed Stuy neighborhood while presenting a different representation of creativity here at The Billie Holiday Theatre,” Banfield said in the press release.