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Arthur Jafa

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Arthur Jafa’s Medley of Joy Everlasting Versus Hell on Earth

Avatar photo by Justin Kamp March 23, 2022March 23, 2022

The video installation akingdoncomethas is an epic montage of sermons and performances from Black churches.

Posted inBooks

How Black Artists Are Shaping a Distinctly Black Gaze

Avatar photo by Tina M. Campt August 22, 2021August 20, 2021

Cultural and artistic icons are reshaping the circulation of Blackness on a global scale.

Posted inArt

Grief and Grievance Honors the Weight and Wake of Racial Violence

Avatar photo by Rachell Morillo March 9, 2021March 9, 2021

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.

Posted inArt

The Best Films of the Decade

Avatar photo by Hyperallergic December 23, 2019June 29, 2020

The landscape of cinema has changed immeasurably in just 10 years. These 25 picks show how.

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Who Decides What Is Violent in the Museum?

by Julie Carr May 10, 2018May 11, 2018

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.

Posted inArt

Videos that Question the Politics of Different Bodies

by Cynthia Cruz August 25, 2017

At the Met Breuer, four works by David Hammons, Arthur Jafa, Steve McQueen, and Mika Rottenberg overlap with and inform one another.

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Great Balls of Fire: Arthur Jafa at Gavin Brown’s Enterprise

Avatar photo by Louis Bury January 28, 2017January 27, 2017

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.

Posted inArt

Confronting the Limits of Catharsis in a Video About Black American Life

Avatar photo by Seph Rodney January 24, 2017August 20, 2017

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.

Posted inArt

The Weird, Wondrous, and Worldly Art Visions of LA

by Matt Stromberg August 19, 2016

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.

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