From the Archive: Arthur Jafa’s New Black Cinema (opens in new tab)

Twenty-three years before releasing his breakout film Love Is the Message, The Message Is Death, and while still working primarily as a cinematographer, artist and filmmaker Arthur Jafa wrote a review of the Hughes brothers’ Menace II Society in the Summer 1993 issue of Artforum, using the LA crime drama as a springboard for expressing Jafa’s larger impressions of the […]