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Arthur Jafa’s Elegy to America

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Arthur Jafa’s Elegy to America
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Arthur Jafa's recently opened survey at the New Museum is the largest exhibition of his work to date. Two levels of the Manhattan institution are filled with his iconic video art, conceptual sculpture, and photography across four decades of his poetic inquiries into Black culture, religion, virality, and racial violence in America. Writing on the show today, Stephanie Wambugu, author of Lonely Crowds (2025), wonders if the oblique register of some of Jafa’s work sacrifices its compre

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