Arthur Jafa: The White Album

14 March 2026 — 30 August 2026

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Arthur Jafa's acclaimed 30-minute film examines how Black music's vitality is co-opted by white culture through coercion. A powerful social critique through collaged found and produced footage.

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Arthur Jafa's 30-minute experimental film The White Album (2018) examines how visual media can transmit the "power, beauty, and alienation" of Black music in American culture. Following his critically acclaimed film Love Is the Message, the Message Is Death (2016), The White Album is a social critique of whiteness. Assembled from found and produced footage,...

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Arthur Jafa

American · b. 1960

American artist and filmmaker known for experimental video works exploring Black American experience and culture. His film Love Is the Message, The Message Is Death (2016) won the Golden Lion at the 2019 Venice Biennale.

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