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Coco Fusco is a New York City–based artist and the author of Dangerous Moves: Performance and Politics in Cuba. (November 2024)
The Crime of Human Movement
Two recent books about our immigration system reveal its long history of exploiting vulnerable individuals for financial gain.
Welcome the Wretched: In Defense of the “Criminal Alien”
by César Cuauhtémoc García Hernández
In the Shadow of Liberty: The Invisible History of Immigrant Detention in the United States
by Ana Raquel Minian
November 21, 2024 issue
The Other Cuba
An exhibition of Cuban art from the past decade charts the emergence of a group of artists who have broken the state’s monopoly on public discourse.
Sin Autorización: Contemporary Cuban Art
February 9, 2023 issue
Whose Art Thrives in Cuba?
Art and dance were battlegrounds for the struggle to define the meaning of the revolution.
Cuban Memory Wars: Retrospective Politics in Revolution and Exile
by Michael J. Bustamante
Dancing with the Revolution: Power, Politics, and Privilege in Cuba
by Elizabeth B. Schwall
December 16, 2021 issue
Deaccessioning Empire
A few daring curators are confronting the imperial histories of their museums.
The Metabolic Museum
by Clémentine Deliss
The Brutish Museums: The Benin Bronzes, Colonial Violence and Cultural Restitution
by Dan Hicks
February 25, 2021 issue
Love Among the Ruins
On ‘The Fallen’ by Carlos Manuel Álvarez and ‘Turcos en la niebla’ by Enrique Del Risco
The Fallen
by Carlos Manuel Álvarez, translated from the Spanish by Frank Wynne
Turcos en la niebla [The Disoriented Ones]
by Enrique Del Risco
April 9, 2020 issue
Sex, Art, and Misogyny
‘Against Our Will: Sexual Trauma in American Art Since 1970’ by Vivien Green Fryd
Against Our Will: Sexual Trauma in American Art Since 1970
by Vivien Green Fryd
May 9, 2019 issue
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