Arthur Jafa: ‘I was battle tested — I was reduced to almost nothing’

The Golden Lion-winning artist on growing up in segregated America, his fear of failure — and why he identifies with Miles ...
insider.si.edu

Love is the message, the message is death / Arthur Jafa

Catalog published to accompany the exhibition, Arthur Jafa's Love is the Message, the Message is Death, presented at Gavin Brown's Enterprise, November 12, 2016 ...
Moviefone

Love Is the Message, the Message Is Death (2017)

A reflection on Jafa's desire to craft a "black cinema" that is responsive to the "existential, political, and spiritual dimensions" of Black life. Comprised of found footage sampled from films, ...
Chicago Reader

This Arthur Jafa show is right on time

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 ...
The Village Voice

Arthur Jafa Taps Into the Underground Current of Blacknuss

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 ...
Hypebeast

Arthur Jafa Honored in Eclectic Program at Paris’s Bourse de Commerce

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 ...