From Warhol to Steve McQueen: a history of video art in 30 works
Michelle Wolf to Melania's roses: the arts and pop culture that sum up the Trump era
June 2020
Kanye West: Wash Us in the Blood review – an intensely potent study of race and faith
This new track sees Kanye at his very best, corralling his anger with masterful focus into an apocalyptic vision of America
December 2018
Why the film-maker behind Love Is the Message is turning his lens to whiteness
Arthur Jafa says his celebrated short offered only a ‘microwave epiphany about blackness’
December 2017
Anatomy of an artwork
Arthur Jafa’s Love Is the Message, the Message Is Death: a story of black American struggle
Amid this film of found footage – featuring Barack Obama, Beyoncé, Martin Luther King and the Notorious BIG – there’s a baseline of institutionalised racism
June 2017
Arthur Jafa: the go-to video artist for Jay Z and the Knowles sisters
You may not know the name, but you’ll recognise his work with Beyoncé. Now, thanks to a new London show, his ‘radical’ art is getting the exposure it deserves
