The DMA will join 13 institutions across the world in hosting a 48-hour live streaming of Arthur Jafa’s renowned film Love is the Message, The Message is Death beginning Friday, June 26, at 1:00 p.m. CDT. This event marks the first time the artist has authorized showing the video outside of a museum or gallery setting.

Organized by the Smithsonian American Art Museum and the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, DC, the event includes the DMA; Glenstone Museum; High Museum of Art in Atlanta; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Studio Museum in Harlem; Julia Stoschek Collection Berlin; Luma Arles and Luma Westbau; Pinault Collection in Paris and Palazzo Grassi in Venice; Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam; and Tate in London. Each participating museum and collection holds an edition of the artwork. In the current moment, the artist and many holders of this artwork agreed that it should be accessible beyond museum walls and to people around the world who might not otherwise encounter it.

Two roundtable panel discussions convened by the artist will take place on Saturday, June 27, immediately after the end of the streaming, and on Sunday, June 28, at 1:00 p.m. CDT on www.sunhaus.us.