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 ...

Kanye West dropped the highly anticipated music video for his new song “Wash Us in the Blood” today, and it was directed by artist Arthur Jafa. The video, which garnered over 100,000 views in less ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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.

The curator of time-based media examines the importance of a powerful work that speaks to our times…and times past. Saisha Grayson SAAM's curator of time-based media examines the importance of a ...

The cinematographer Arthur Jafa is speaking on the phone from Los Angeles, where he lives within spitting distance of the movie industry he holds at ambivalent arm's length, despite being one of its ...

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 ...

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 ...