Price Database The Art Angle This week, Ben Davis speaks to Jafa about his art, his view of art history, and what comes next. Photo of Arthur Jafa in front of his work Big Wheel II 2018 by Marta Marinotti. Arthur Jafa is probably the most revered artist of the last decade. Born in 1960, in Tupelo, Mississippi, he came up through the world of cinema. But Jafa also found his way into the art world with his difficult video work and strange objects. In art, his reputation went vertical in 2016 with the video , Love Is the Message, the Message Is Death . It is a collage of found footage from social media that included police violence against Black people and also moments of viral celebration and joy. It was both experimental and accessible, and drew huge crowds when it was first shown at Gavin Brown’s Enterprise in New York. A follow-up film, called The White Album , won the Golden Lion for Best Artist as part of the main show of the Venice Biennale back in 2019.…