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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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Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara Speaks Out From Prison Ahead of Trial

Avatar photo by Coco Fusco May 23, 2022June 24, 2022

“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. 

Posted inOpinion

Coco Fusco Enlists Cuban Artists to Recite Heberto Padilla’s Forced Confessions

Avatar photo by Coco Fusco April 27, 2021April 27, 2021

Fifty years ago, poet Heberto Padilla was forced to publicly denounce himself and his friends as counterrevolutionaries.

Posted inOpinion

Cuban Musicians and Artists Collaborate on Viral, Political Music Video

Avatar photo by Coco Fusco February 23, 2021February 23, 2021

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

Avatar photo by Coco Fusco October 26, 2020November 5, 2020

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.”

Posted inOpinion

Case Dismissed: On Cuban Artist Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara’s Arrest and Release

Avatar photo by Coco Fusco April 22, 2020April 22, 2020

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.

Posted inOpinion

Cuba’s Campaign Against Artist Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara

Avatar photo by Coco Fusco September 19, 2019September 19, 2019

The treatment of Luis Manuel Otero Alcantara is emblematic of a struggle in Cuba over who defines and controls art and culture.

Posted inArt

An Insider’s View of the Cuban Art World and 2019 Havana Biennial

Avatar photo by Coco Fusco July 30, 2019February 24, 2020

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.

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Why Did Cuba Deport Artists Trying to Attend Havana’s First Alternative Biennial? [UPDATED]

Avatar photo by Coco Fusco May 8, 2018February 24, 2020

While governments and the media may tout the reforms in Cuba, the reality for artists on the island nation is far more precarious.

Posted inArt

How the Art World, and Art Schools, Are Ripe for Sexual Abuse

Avatar photo by Coco Fusco November 14, 2017December 20, 2017

The art world is structured in a way that enables abuses, and the problem is especially acute at art schools.

Posted inOpinion

Censorship, Not the Painting, Must Go: On Dana Schutz’s Image of Emmett Till

Avatar photo by Coco Fusco March 27, 2017March 29, 2017

Presuming that calls for censorship and destruction constitute a legitimate response to perceived injustice leads us down a very dark path.

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Why an Art Strike? Why Now?

Avatar photo by Coco Fusco January 10, 2017January 19, 2017

The time for thinking about how the imminent political shift will impact the lives and livelihoods of artists is upon us.

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