New Museum Gives Arthur Jafa a Full Retrospective in New York

Arthur Jafa is the subject of a retrospective at the New Museum in New York. A retrospective is the format a museum keeps for an artist whose work it believes merits a full, considered look, and this one brings his practice together in a single New York venue. Artnet News's critic treats the show as a way to understand a broader change in the culture, so the exhibition carries weight beyond the work on the walls. For readers who follow where serious attention in American art is going, a New Museum survey of a living artist is worth seeing in person.

With reporting from Artnet News.