Film
Arthur Jafa’s Medley of Joy Everlasting Versus Hell on Earth
The video installation akingdoncomethas is an epic montage of sermons and performances from Black churches.
Arthur Jafa
Books
How Black Artists Are Shaping a Distinctly Black Gaze
Cultural and artistic icons are reshaping the circulation of Blackness on a global scale.
Art
Grief and Grievance Honors the Weight and Wake of Racial Violence
A prophetic document of our time, the New Museum exhibition calls attention to the weight of Black death not because it is new or salacious but because it remains urgent.
Art
The Best Films of the Decade
The landscape of cinema has changed immeasurably in just 10 years. These 25 picks show how.
Art
Who Decides What Is Violent in the Museum?
Tone deaf, in a period defined by police brutality and racial discrimination, the MCA in Denver's spring exhibitions meditate on violence through a lens harkening back to Jim Crow.
Art
Videos that Question the Politics of Different Bodies
At the Met Breuer, four works by David Hammons, Arthur Jafa, Steve McQueen, and Mika Rottenberg overlap with and inform one another.
Art
Great Balls of Fire: Arthur Jafa at Gavin Brown’s Enterprise
Set to Kanye West’s languorously sublime hip hop gospel track, “Ultralight Beam,” the visuals in Arthur Jafa’s seven-minute film alternate between eruptions of joy and violence.
Art
Confronting the Limits of Catharsis in a Video About Black American Life
Arthur Jafa's "Love Is the Message, The Message Is Death" communicates a truth about black life in the US: Many of our public encounters erupt in violence or are premised upon violence.
Art
The Weird, Wondrous, and Worldly Art Visions of LA
LOS ANGELES — What does it mean to be an LA artist? This is the question that curators Aram Moshayedi and Hamza Walker came up against when organizing the Hammer Museum’s third Los Angeles Biennial, Made in LA 2016.