News
Coco Fusco Casts Trump as a Heartless Tin Man
Contentious relations between the United States and China underscore the display of Fusco's "Tin Man of the Twenty-First Century" at the Anren Biennale in China's Sichuan province.
Coco Fusco
News
Artist Coco Fusco Denied Entry Into Cuba Ahead of Havana Biennial
"I am sure that this is due to my writings on Cuban art and cultural politics, and my steadfast support for the artists-led movement in Cuba against Decree 349," the artist wrote in a statement today.
Art
How the Art World, and Art Schools, Are Ripe for Sexual Abuse
The art world is structured in a way that enables abuses, and the problem is especially acute at art schools.
Art
Cuba's Longest Running Independent Gallery to Launch Workshops on Art Outside Official Culture
Sandra Ceballos and Coco Fusco will create a series of workshops and educational programs exploring trends and developments in Cuban art beyond state-sponsored culture.
News
Protesters Demand MoMA Drop Trump Advisor from Its Board
Dozens of protesters are demanding MoMA remove the CEO of BlackRock from their board because of his ties to the Trump administration.
Books
Parsing a Would-Be Canon of Recent Artists' Writings
The new book Social Medium: Artists Writing, 2000–2015 over-relies on art institutions to vet a very uneven selection of writings by 75 artists.
News
A $2.5 Million Statue Casts a Long Shadow on the Bronx Museum’s Cuban Initiatives
Sometime early next year, a monumental sculpture of the Cuban writer and national hero José Martí is expected to rise on Havana's busy Paseo del Prado.
Opinion
Liveblogging 'The Artist as Debtor' Conference
We're at Cooper Union today to liveblog the 'The Artist as Debtor: A Conference about the Work of Artists in the Age of Speculative Capitalism' event.
Art
Accounting for Artists' Debt
On Friday, January 23, some of the most progressive thinkers on the topic of the financial realities facing artists will be convening in the Great Hall of Manhattan's Cooper Union university to explore a topic largely ignored in the art world, the artist as debtor.
Art
Crossing Brooklyn, Without Leaving the Safe Parts
Let’s begin with the obvious: to attempt a comprehensive exhibition of contemporary art from across Brooklyn would be not only impossible but foolish, a kind of Tower of Babel of artistic practice. And so the Brooklyn Museum’s eagerly awaited Crossing Brooklyn is not a sweeping survey but a tight, t
Performance
A New Kind of Theater Space Opens BAM to More Aggressive Work
Standing at the corner on which Jay-Z and Barbra Streisand helped anoint the new Barclays Center at the southern edge of Fort Greene, Brooklyn, it's possible to feel an air of controversy around the 19,000-seat sports arena and concert venue that opened its doors for the very first time just weeks a
Art
Too Many Paths Leading Every Which Way at Caribbean: Crossroads of the World
Spending all day being party-bused between the three museums — El Museo del Barrio, the Studio Museum in Harlem and the Queens Museum of Art — who are hosting the self-proclaimed landmark exhibition "Caribbean: Crossroads of the World," I was repeatedly told by the museum directors, curators and art