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King Arthur Holds Court

With a joint exhibit in Venice with his artistic hero, Richard Prince, Arthur Jafa sounds off on the power of scarcity, why we’re still chewing on Duchamp, and his loyalty to Kanye.

Arthur Jafa
Arthur Jafa in Paris, March 2025. Photo: Ludovic Marin/AFP/Getty Images
Dan Duray
June 14, 2026

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Arthur Jafa has built a career as an image scavenger, siphoning pictures from cinema, music, and a deep reservoir of American iconography and recombining them into work that buzzes like a live wire. Those qualities pervade Helter Skelter, the exhibition that pairs him with Richard Prince at Fondazione Prada’s Venetian palazzo, Ca’ Corner della Regina, through November 23. Curated by Nancy Spector, former chief curator of the Guggenheim, the show stages a conversation between two artists who share an ethos of lawlessness about whose images they take and what they make of them.