Music has long played a central role in Arthur Jafa’s artistic practice. His latest video is no different: The White Album, at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, combines a pair of ...
Fifteen arts institutions will simultaneously livestream Arthur Jafa’s poignant video work, Love Is the Message, The Message Is Death (2016) over the course of 48 hours beginning on June 26 for ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Click here to read the full article. Arthur Jafa’s work as a cinematographer, visual artist, and cultural theorist, has captured ...
What happens when a classical dance form meets the world of vintage automobiles? In ‘Sair-e-Motorcar’, Delhi-based Kathak ...
This summer, two of the world's best known and most music-obsessed contemporary visual artists are showing their seminal video works together for the first time in an unlikely setting: an empty store ...
Arthur Jafa (American, born 1960). akingdoncomethas, 2018. Video, color, sound, 1 hour 41 minutes Brooklyn Museum, Gift of the Contemporary Art Committee and William ...
All this makes the generous exhibition by Arthur Jafa now on view at the Harlem flagship of the gallery Gavin Brown’s Enterprise a particular treat. For a good thirty years Jafa, a filmmaker by ...
Yes, the work that catapulted Arthur Jafa to art world fame, 2016’s Love is the Message, the Message is Death, is a powerful compilation of found footage of black joy and pain set to Kanye West’s ...
Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The year that Arthur Jafa turned 50 was the worst of his life. For most of his career he had worked as a ...
You may have already forgotten that Kanye West's most recent promotional campaign — including a deal with the Gap and a long-shot political campaign — kicked off on June 30, with the release of a new ...
With a survey in Europe and stark new sculptures in New York, he is bringing to the fore darker, more personal themes. “I’m an undertaker,” he said. “I don’t do the uplift thing.” By Siddhartha Mitter ...