Coco Fusco

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

Decolonizing the Museum

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

February 6, 2021

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

A man wearing a face mask walks by a mural depicting Fidel Castro in Havana, Cuba, May 13, 2020

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.

May 15, 2020

Workers repairing a colonial palace in Old Havana, 2007

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

Suzanne Lacy: Three Weeks in May, Los Angeles, 1977

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