Largest-Ever Arthur Jafa Survey Coming to New Museum

The New Museum in Manhattan will present the largest-ever survey of filmmaker and multimedia artist Arthur Jafa, titled “I Am Tony,” opening September 24 and running through January 4, 2027. The two-floor exhibition in the museum’s recently expanded building will span nearly four decades of Jafa’s work and will premiere new pieces alongside key works including “Love is the Message, The Message is Death” (2016) and “The White Album” (2018). “The White Album” earned Jafa the Golden Lion at the 2019 Venice Biennale, and “Love is the Message” was livestreamed for 48 hours by more than a dozen institutions in June 2020 during Black Lives Matter protests. The show is curated by New Museum Artistic Director Massimiliano Gioni with Senior Curator Gary Carrion-Murayari and Curatorial Assistant Calvin Wang.

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