The Cuban American artist and activist Coco Fusco is not taking President Trump’s new term lying down. In fact, she’s getting all fired up at the prospect of four more years of Donald, expressing her fears and frustration in a new newspaper called The Siren, which has the tagline: “laughing at the expense of tyranny”.
Fusco told Hyperallergic that after visiting the recent exhibition Mexican Prints at the Vanguard at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art, which demonstrates the role of printmaking in resistance to the rise of fascism, she was “deeply moved by the ingenuity and vitality of the cartoons and posters”.
Fusco created the feisty new publication with Pablo Helguera, who does The Art Newspaper’s monthly cartoon, and the Brooklyn-based artist Noah Fischer, inviting political cartoonists, activists and artists to contribute to the free publication.
Other contributors include Lalo Alcaraz, who presents a train emblazoned with the words “Trump mass deportation express”, and Isabella Bannerman, whose cartoon shows Trump as “Mussolini with hair” .