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Coco Fusco
Coco Fusco is an artist and writer and professor of art at The Cooper Union.
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The Cuban Artists Who Turned Havana’s May Day Parade Into a Protest
Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara and Raychel Carrión used state-orchestrated political theater as a backdrop for their critiques of institutional power and mindless consent.
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That Time Carl Andre Wrote Me a Letter
He copyrighted the letter and ended it with “for your eyes only,” as if to say, don’t even think of showing this to anybody.
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Cuban Artist’s Message of Defiance From Prison
“There rises within me a rebellious spirit, that does not allow me to resign myself,” says Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara.
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Affirmative Action and the Art World’s White Elites
The Supreme Court’s ban on affirmative action in college admissions is indicative of a larger problem that also plagues the art world.
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Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara Speaks Out From Prison Ahead of Trial
“I am an artist and a human being struggling to get out of this unjust prison, but every day my love of free and honest art grows firmer,” the persecuted artist said in a statement from a maximum-security prison in Cuba.
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Coco Fusco Enlists Cuban Artists to Recite Heberto Padilla’s Forced Confessions
Fifty years ago, poet Heberto Padilla was forced to publicly denounce himself and his friends as counterrevolutionaries.
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Cuban Musicians and Artists Collaborate on Viral, Political Music Video
The “Patria y Vida” video is spreading like wildfire in Cuba and Miami, a sign of widespread discontent on the island as well as unity among Cubans.
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We Need New Institutions, Not New Art
Coco Fusco writes on why “equity won’t be achieved by a new biennial, another emerging artist of color survey, or a record auction sale by a Black artist.”
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Case Dismissed: On Cuban Artist Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara’s Arrest and Release
The artist has been detained over 20 times in two years. But this time, his colleagues on the island mobilized in his defense — and that made all the difference.
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Cuba’s Campaign Against Artist Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara
The treatment of Luis Manuel Otero Alcantara is emblematic of a struggle in Cuba over who defines and controls art and culture.
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An Insider’s View of the Cuban Art World and 2019 Havana Biennial
In an in-depth interview translated from Spanish, artist and scholar Coco Fusco discusses the 2019 Havana Biennial and state of the Cuban art world with poet and cultural commentator Katherine Bisquet.