The artist Arthur Jafa in front of his painting "Thirst Trap" (2024). When I first met Arthur Jafa, Fred Moten was still living in the West Adams area of Los Angeles, and I was living in New York, ...

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 ...

The Museum of Modern Art announces a film series, Arthur Jafa: Carte Blanche, from November 20–26, 2025.

Arthur Jafa’s overdue solo exhibition comes at the right time, when a good portion of the population seems to need some crash courses on history and media literacy. Jafa is not offering either, but he ...

Tremaine Emory will be releasing a collaboration with Arthur Jafa after all. On April 22, 2024, Emory took to Instagram to announce the collab with the visual artist that will release through Denim ...

But in Love, which has garnered him a fair amount of praise (and press), Jafa draws from clips and images that, almost uniformly, originate elsewhere — uncommon waters for a practiced cinematographer.

Less Is Morbid is a counter death wish, according to artist Arthur Jafa. Originally from Tupelo, Mississippi, and trained as ...

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 ...

Running alongside the Pinault Collection’s major exhibition Corps et Âmes, the Bourse de Commerce has launched a dynamic music and performance series curated by Cyrus Goberville, paying tribute to the ...

Arthur Jafa, the celebrated artist, translates a new song from West into his own film-visual language, both elevating and transcending it. You may have already forgotten that Kanye West's most recent ...

Pete Townshend stares at the world in spellbinding closeup on screen. He appears hauntingly solitary and sad, although he is only 27. Something about his long face, streaming hair and suffering eyes ...

When I first met Arthur Jafa, Fred Moten was still living in the West Adams area of Los Angeles, and I was living in New York, visiting L.A. for the holidays. Fred invited me and AJ, as friends call ...