Arthur JafaI Am Tony
Sep 25, 2026 – Jan 4, 2027 Bowery
Thu, Dec 3Arthur Jafa in conversation with Tyler Cowen, 6:30–8 pm
Fri, Dec 4Screening of Daughters of the Dust and talk with Bradford Young, at Metrograph, 7 Ludlow Street
The largest museum survey yet of Arthur Jafa, nearly forty years of films, installations, photographs, paintings and sculpture across two floors.
The survey runs from early work such as Monster (1988), a self-portrait filmed in a mirror, to new pieces shown for the first time. Recent paintings, large video and film installations, sculpture and photographs join his best-known films, The White Album (2019), which won a Golden Lion, and Love is the Message, The Message is Death (2016).
The title honors the jazz drummer Tony Williams. Massimiliano Gioni and Gary Carrion-Murayari are the curators.
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