Coco Fusco

The Portraitist

By using unlikely objects to represent people he had loved and lost, Felix Gonzalez-Torres created the most unforgettable artistic expressions of mourning to emerge from the AIDS crisis.

The Return of Trump—V

On tantrums, dominion, the Southern Strategy, fearmongering ads, New York’s haves and have-nots, and Candidate Fain. 

The Crime of Human Movement

Two recent books about our immigration system reveal its long history of exploiting vulnerable individuals for financial gain.

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.

Whose Art Thrives in Cuba?

Art and dance were battlegrounds for the struggle to define the meaning of the revolution.

Decolonizing the Museum

“We thought when we began that the performance would be understood as a parody,” says the interdisciplinary artist and writer.

Deaccessioning Empire

A few daring curators are confronting the imperial histories of their museums.

Pandemic Journal

The latest edition of our brief dispatches by New York Review writers documenting the coronavirus outbreak around the world, including Coco Fusco in Brooklyn, Lucas Adams in Brooklyn, Sara Nović in Philadelphia, Gavin Francis in Edinburgh, and more.

Love Among the Ruins

On ‘The Fallen’ by Carlos Manuel Álvarez and ‘Turcos en la niebla’ by Enrique Del Risco

Sex, Art, and Misogyny

‘Against Our Will: Sexual Trauma in American Art Since 1970’ by Vivien Green Fryd