Arthur Jafa’s Vital New Museum Survey Is a Horror Show for the Ages

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Arthur Jafa’s Vital New Museum Survey Is a Horror Show for the Ages

In a self-portrait from 1988, Arthur Jafa holds his camera to a mirror and stares upward, meeting both his own reflected face and the gaze of his viewer simultaneously. When it was first published in Artforum, the photograph was called Self-Portrait. But at some point, Jafa changed it to Monster, t...

Arthur Jafa’s Vital New Museum Survey Is a Horror Show for the Ages

Visionary Eyes

Opening Glee

Chinny World

Observation 11

Against All Odds

Expectation