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.
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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.
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Children’s Drawings from US/Mexico Border Reveal a World of Cages
During a recent visit to US border facilities, the president of the American Academy of Pediatrics was given three drawings by child immigrants.
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PEN America Condemns Trump Administration for Closing Child Detention Camps to Press
“It is shocking that the American public largely must learn about the dangerous conditions at these detention centers not through reporters being able to cover the news, but through second-hand reports from lawyers and advocates granted access under a legal agreement with the U.S. border patrol,” the organization said.
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Artists and Arts Workers Call on Institutions to Reject Calling Trump’s Border Wall Art [UPDATED]
Twenty-five artists and cultural workers have signed an open letter blasting art institutions’ support of a project to have the prototypes for Trump’s border wall designated as a national monument.
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Four Construction Companies Will Build Concrete Prototypes for US-Mexico Border Wall
US Customs and Border Protection has awarded contracts to four general construction providers based in Alabama, Arizona, Mississippi, and Texas.
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5 Art-Filled Summer Day Trips from Los Angeles
As the dog days of summer draw to a close, take a short drive outside the city to see some unusual art.
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Artist Collective Postcommodity on Recovering Knowledge and Making Border Metaphors
With work on view in three current exhibitions, the members of Postcommodity discuss their desire to “mediate complexity.”
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From a Row of Hammocks to One Million Gravestones: An Art Collective’s Alternative Border Wall Proposals
J.M. Design Studio saw the president’s call as an opportunity to challenge visions of a xenophobic future.
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Six Designs for Trump’s Border Wall, from Solar Panels to a Mexican-American Co-Nation
The Department of Homeland Security’s call for proposals for a wall to be built along the Mexico–US border elicited hundreds of designs. Here are six of them.
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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.
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In Tijuana, an Artist-Designed Treehouse Gives a Peek into the US
The Japanese artist collective Chim↑Pom has built a treehouse dubbed “USA Visitor Center” that looks across the US–Mexico border.