Opinion
The Little President with a Big Mural in a Children's Detention Camp
President Trump's new detention center for immigrant children in Texas houses 1,700 boys in a former Walmart and includes a mural featuring his image.
Immigration
News
Activists Project Messages of Resistance and Solidarity on Border Wall Prototypes
"We're really here to point that out that this is not an appropriate use of American technology," said a member of Artcolectivist, a binational group involved in the light graffiti-project.
Art
An Artists’ Conversation on Immigration at the Museum of Latin American Art
On June 2, the museum in Long Beach is hosting a conversation focused specifically on artistic responses to immigration from Mexico and Latin America.
Art
A Virtual Border Wall Displays Art by Immigrants
Art director Maddy Kramer's site "The Most Beautiful Wall" is a digital structure 19,000 miles long that is showing work made by immigrant artists.
News
Trump's Travel Ban Ensnares Artists and Authors
In the weeks since President Trump's initial travel ban was put into effect and blocked, artists and writers entering the US have faced strenuous scrutiny from Customs and Border Patrol.
Art
A Magazine Named for a Visa Gathers the Work of Foreign Artists in the US
Artist Jenny Hung's O1 magazine makes visible the labyrinthine and costly process of applying for an O-1 visa.
News
In Protest of Trump's Travel Ban, Davis Museum Will Remove All Art Made or Donated by Immigrants
From tomorrow until Presidents' Day, the Davis Museum at Wellesley is deinstalling or shrouding all of its art by immigrants as a statement against Trump's travel ban.
Art
Remembering Little Syria, a Forgotten Manhattan Neighborhood
From the 1880s to 1940s, a community of mostly Arab Americans thrived in a Lower Manhattan neighborhood that would later be the site of the World Trade Center.
News
Light Projection Aims to Remind Trump His Tower Was Built by Undocumented Workers
To protest Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump's anti-immigrant rhetoric, activists projected 30-foot-tall images of migrant workers onto the gleaming façade of Trump Tower in Midtown Manhattan on September 8.
In Brief
Ai Weiwei Withdraws Art from Two Danish Museums in Protest of Controversial Immigration Law
Ai Weiwei has withdrawn his art from two museums in Denmark to protest a law passed yesterday by the Danish parliament viewed by many as an anti-immigration measure.
Art
Public Art in Philadelphia Tells the Stories of the Undocumented
Throughout Philadelphia, for the rest of the month, one may now stumble upon and listen to the stories of undocumented families whose lives were affected by deportations.
Art
Picturing the Words of Migrants Detained in the US
CultureStrike has launched Visions from the Inside, a project that invites 15 artists around the country to each engage with and illustrate one letter by a detained migrant at Karnes County Residential Center in Texas.