Fondazione Prada to Stage Arthur Jafa/Richard Prince Show in May 2026
The Milan-based Fondazione Prada will stage a two-person exhibition of Arthur Jafa and Richard Prince at its Venice space during the upcoming Biennale. Opening to the public on May 9, the same day as the Biennale, the exhibition carries the title “Helter Skelter” and is curated by Nancy Spector, the former artistic director of the Guggenheim Museum. The exhibition will be organized around “a series of thematic juxtapositions” of both Prince’s and Jafa’s works that will “illuminate each of their practices and tease out shared subject matter and mutual obsessions,” according to a press release. It will also debut a “long creative conversation” between the two artists that has not been previously exhibited publicly. Related Articles The two artists, who were born a decade apart, are both known for mining pop culture to create their work and, per a release, “share an ethos of lawlessness when it comes to the appropriation and manipulation of images siphoned from movies, pulp novels, comic books, YouTube videos, sci-fi stories, album covers, record sleeves, rock ‘n’ roll posters, first-edition …
