Arthur Jafa
artist
American artist Jafa's recent video work recontextualises Wonder's song 'As' as well as the film 'Taxi Driver'
An in-depth interview with the filmmaker and sculptor, discussing his eye for systemic and historic inequity, and how Anne Imhof and Mahalia Jackson have influenced his practice
In two shows in New York, at 52 Walker and Gladstone, Jafa gets to the dark side of Black life
The US artist best known for his powerful moving image works has “something very special” in store for the Maryland museum, its co-founder revealed on a recent podcast
The German collector, who has one of the world's largest collections of video and time-based art, still has a yearning for an Old Master
The career-spanning installation includes sculptures, photographs and the monumental video that followed the artist’s seminal video montage Love is the Message, the Message is Death
In a recently published Cahiers d’Art monograph, the US artist speaks about responding to “a tsunami of footage of Black people getting killed”
Fourteen institutions including Tate will livestream Love is the Message, The Message is Death
Show’s 22nd edition aims to be as much a conversation as an exhibition, with hundreds of public events including bushwalks with aboriginal elders and campfire talks
Arthur Jafa’s work The White Album is also recognised by the Biennale jury
The artist's radical video sparked debate about race relations in the US