BLM: Multiple museums are streaming Arthur Jafa's powerful film 'Love Is the Message'

Film still of Arthur Jafa's 2016 video work, 'Love Is The Message, The Message Is Death'. Photo: AFP

Thirteen arts institutions are simultaneously livestreaming the American cinematographer's 2016 video work, Love Is The Message, The Message Is Death, this weekend. The initiative is spearheaded by the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden and the Smithsonian American Art Museum, which jointly acquired the seven-and-a-half-minute video about racial violence in 2018.

Also involved in the project are the Tate, the Glenstone Museum, the Dallas Museum of Art, the Pinault Collection, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, the Studio Museum in Harlem, the Julia Stoschek Collection, as well as Luma Arles and Luma Westbau.