Book Review
If the US-Mexico Border Could Talk
Echoes from the Borderlands, which transcribes a sound installation tracing the border, insists on the land’s inextricability from the history to which it bears witness.
US-Mexico Border
Film
In Hummingbirds, Joy Is an Act of Resistance
The coming-of-age documentary is as full of whimsy and joy as it is packed with clear-eyed resilience.
Art
A Show About Migration Is a Hall of Memories
Hostility comes across in various forms throughout "Hostile Terrain '94," a show about the perils involved in undocumented migration.
Art
Resisting Superficial Narratives About the US-Mexico Border
When the Dogs Stop Barking reflects the complexities, and foolishness, of geopolitical limits.
News
Coins Depicting Border Patrol Attack on Haitian Migrant Surface on eBay
The unofficial coins portray an agent on horseback wielding his reins like a whip and the ominous inscription “You Will Be Returned.”
Art
The Cross-Border Work of the Rubin Center’s New Curator
“Artists are the key people who are helping us to think differently and better about not just the future, but the past and the present,” said Laura August, who’s been chosen to lead the Visual Arts center at the University of Texas at El Paso.
Art
An Intimate Look at the Landscape of the South Texas Borderlands
Though the area has been at the center of recent border wall debates, its complexity and diversity have been politicized and oversimplified for centuries.
Art
The Tricky Role of Humor in Activist Art and Design
An SFMOMA exhibition raises questions about what it means when museum board members have ties to politicians who support border wall policies.
Books
The Disruptive Architecture of Border Walls
Rafał Milach sharply documents three international border walls and how they impact our sense of identity and memory.
Art
See the Striking Photos that Competed for the Bird Photographer of the Year Awards
Mexican photographer Alejandro Prieto’s image of a roadrunner at the US-Mexico border took home the top prize.
Art
Why a Photo Exhibit of Objects Seized at Border Control Feels Sanitized
Tom Kiefer’s aim — to document atrocity — is clear. But his exhibit at the Skirball Cultural Center raises a number of important ethical and legal questions about whose stories he tells, and how.
Art
Gloria Anzaldúa’s Groundbreaking Book About Life on the Borders Gets a Marathon Reading
A mix of voices filled the room with passages from Borderlands, serving as a powerful antidote to the violent racism and xenophobia that characterizes our current political moment.