“It feels like the world has forgotten about us,” said artist Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara, who recently served four years of his sentence in a maximum-security Cuban prison.
Coco Fusco
Posted inSatire
An Artist’s Fourth of July Muppets Parody
The Muppets have always encouraged us to express our feelings, right? Well, this song expresses our feelings about the terrible things happening right now.
Posted inComics
100 Days of MAGA Broligarchy
The Siren is back for a second issue. Read up and rise up!
Posted inComics
The Sanest Response to Insane Times
MAGA is coming for our rights. The Siren is here to fight back.
Posted inOpinion
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.
Posted inArt
Coco Fusco’s Fight to Rebalance Power
Throughout her decades-long career, Fusco has laid bare the many mechanisms through which subjugated bodies are stripped of their agency.
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SAAM Highlights Cecilia Vicuña, Coco Fusco, and Mariam Ghani at Third Women Filmmakers Festival
From March 1 to 21, watch online screenings hosted by the Smithsonian American Art Museum and attend weekly conversations with the artists and museum curators.
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Following Peaceful Protest, Cuban State Security Traps Artists in Apartment
Seven of them have been on hunger strike for more than 140 hours after police intercepted attempts by a neighbor to drop off food and supplies.
Posted inArt
50 Artists Step Into the Role of President
Constance Hockaday invited 50 artists, including Miranda July, Mel Chin, and Coco Fusco, to deliver a five-minute presidential address.
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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.
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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.
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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.