The Museum of Modern Art announces a film series, Arthur Jafa: Carte Blanche, from November 20–26, 2025. Across his artistic practice, Arthur Jafa offers fresh combinations of images from contemporary art and culture in montage, collage, and other juxtapositions. A multidisciplinary maker whose oeuvre includes video, film, cinematography, sculpture, and artist's books, Jafa's preoccupation with the moving image is longstanding. Jafa began his career working on Black cinema classics, including serving as cinematographer on Daughters of the Dust and Crooklyn, and film techniques have been foundational for Jafa across years of art-making. In conjunction with his exhibition Artist's Choice: Arthur Jafa—Less Is Morbid, Jafa has organized a Carte Blanche film program, a nonlinear survey of his cinematic influences and interests. Presented in pairs, the films' unexpected juxtapositions of style and content allow audiences to see each work in surprising new ways. Film pairings include Oscar Micheaux's Ten Minutes to Live with Wong Kar-wai's In the Mood For Love, Jean Rouch's Moi, un noir with Jean-Luc Godard's Breathless, Charles Burnett's Killer of Sheep with Michael Roemer's Nothing but a Man, and Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather Part II with Andrei Tarkovsky's Mirror. Jafa's connection of films in unanticipated duos resonates with his approach to his gallery exhibition, in which he has arranged nearly 100 objects from MoMA's collection in dense clusters, with artworks from varied cultural and historical contexts displayed together side by side.
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To Save and Project: The 22nd MoMA International Festival of Film Preservation (1/8/26-2/2/26)
THE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART PRESENTS Ideas of Africa: Portraiture and Political Imagination (12/14/25-7/25/26)
MoMA and Cinecittà Present: Carlo Rambaldi (12/10/25-12/24/25)
THE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART PRESENTS Artist’s Choice: Arthur Jafa–Less Is Morbid (11/19/25-7/5/26)
Helen Frankenthaler: A Grand Sweep (11/18/25-2/8/26)
THE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART PRESENTS Wifredo Lam: When I Don’t Sleep, I Dream (11/10/25-4/11/26)
Time Travelers: Photographs from the Gayle Greenhill Collection (10/31/25-2/16/26)
THE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART PRESENTS Sofia Coppola: A Tribute A Film Series (10/30/25-11/16/25)
Ruth Asawa: A Retrospective (10/19/25-2/7/26)
A Film Series: João César Monteiro: Symphonies of a Libertine (10/16/25-11/6/25)
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Mars
The Chain Theatre (1/27 - 2/1)
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The Legend of You
Caveat (1/31 - 1/31) | |
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Corona Crazy: The Musical
Teatro LATEA (1/29 - 2/1) | |
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An Enemy of the People (Equity Approved Showcase)
American Theatre of Actors (1/28 - 2/8)
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Empower State of Mind
City Winery NYC (2/2 - 2/2)
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Brody Went Missing
Caveat (2/1 - 2/1) COMEDY | |
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Venus in Fur
Producers Club Theaters (2/4 - 2/9)
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Two Birds And A Bag Of Bones
The LATEA Theater (1/21 - 1/25) OFF-OFF-BROADWAY PREMIERE
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Broadway Magic Hour
Broadway Comedy Club (1/1 - 6/30)
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Lobby Hero
Manes Studio Theatre of Long Island (1/9 - 1/25)
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I DO! I DO!
Hampton Theatre Company (3/12 - 3/29) | |
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Always Young The Musical
Theater For The New City (1/15 - 2/1) NEW MUSICAL
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Just in Time at Circle In The Square Theatre
Circle In The Square Theatre (2/22 - 2/22) | |
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Ricardo Montaner at Radio City Music Hall
Radio City Music Hall (9/3 - 9/3) | |
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The Listening
East Village Basement (4/7 - 4/12) | |
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Six The Musical at Lena Horne Theatre
Lena Horne Theatre (11/5 - 7/5) | |
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Adelphi Orchestra - Grace & Elegance
Broadway Presbyterian Church (2/28 - 2/28) | |
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