"Arthur Jafa's work in film, sculpture and installation explores Black being with an unflinching eye for systemic and historic inequity and violence and an exuberant harnessing of disparate manifestations of Black-and particularly African-American-culture," writes Ben Luke, host of The Art Newspaper podcast A Brush With... This comprehensive overview of Jafa's work over several decades includes key works such as Love is the Message, the Message is Death (2016), exploring "the philosophical, historical and artistic implications of his practice," says a publisher's statement."
"I got to know Mason's work more deeply while editing a 2020 monograph on her mother Alice Trumbull Mason, one of the first American abstractionists, now finally getting her due. Emily often recalled her mother's wry prediction: 'I'll be famous when I'm dead.' In recent years, a similar sense of posthumous recognition has begun to surround Emily herself," says the book's editor Elisa Wouk Almino."
Arthur Jafa's work in film, sculpture and installation examines Black being with an unflinching eye for systemic and historic inequity and violence while exuberantly harnessing diverse manifestations of Black, particularly African-American, culture. The collection highlights key works such as Love is the Message, the Message is Death (2016) and gathers essays plus conversations with thinkers including Fred Moten and Saidiya Hartman. Emily Mason's first major monograph offers newly commissioned essays and a roundtable with Nari Ward, situating Mason in an improvisational Abstract Expressionist mode notably without angst or bravado and noting links to Alice Trumbull Mason and rising posthumous recognition. Goya: The Complete Prints is organized chronologically and compiles comprehensive prints and scholarly insight.
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