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 ...

Arthur Jafa’s work as a cinematographer, visual artist, and cultural theorist, has captured and interrogated the history and experiences of black Americans, in groundbreaking film and visual media, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In “Artist’s Choice: Arthur Jafa,” the artist mines the museum’s vaults for an exhibition that gives new meaning to what he found there. In “Artist’s Choice: Arthur Jafa,” the artist mines the ...

The most spellbinding art work of the past decade is a seven-and-a-half-minute film called “Love Is the Message, the Message Is Death,” by the artist and filmmaker Arthur Jafa. Word spread quickly ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Arthur Jafa remembers the first time that art imploded the way he saw the world. The artist and cinematographer, 58, has spent the past ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...