This month, the Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia will debut Freedom Dreams, an expansive exhibition focused on Black ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The artist Arthur Jafa in front of his painting "Thirst Trap" (2024). When I first met Arthur Jafa, Fred Moten was still living in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This summer, two of the world’s best known and most music-obsessed contemporary visual artists are showing their seminal video ...

The Museum of Modern Art announces an exhibition, Artist's Choice: Arthur Jafa—Less Is Morbid, from November 19, 2025–July 5, 2026. Less Is Morbid is a counter death wish, according to artist Arthur ...

The artist has gone back to his filmmaking roots, re-examining what he sees as racial undertones in Martin Scorsese’s classic 1976 movie. By Aruna D’Souza Call it a return to his roots. The artist ...

4 A GAY MASSEUR'S GUIDE TO HAPPY ENDINGS to Appear as Workshop Show in NYC's SPARK Theatre Festival The Museum of Modern Art announces a film series, Arthur Jafa: Carte Blanche, from November 20–26, ...

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 ...

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 ...

The artist known for confronting the country’s racist history head-on talks to poet Simone White about institutional attention, the film Taxi Driver, and his daring new exhibitions. Then, in 2016, at ...

Last night’s Met Gala was an exhilarating celebration of Black excellence—and nowhere was that energy more prevalent than on the 12th floor of the luxurious Aman hotel in midtown, where Fear of God ...

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, ...