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Resisting Superficial Narratives About the US-Mexico Border

Avatar photo by Edgar Picazo Merino December 13, 2022December 13, 2022

When the Dogs Stop Barking reflects the complexities, and foolishness, of geopolitical limits.

Posted inNews

Coins Depicting Border Patrol Attack on Haitian Migrant Surface on eBay

Avatar photo by Billy Anania June 16, 2022June 17, 2022

The unofficial coins portray an agent on horseback wielding his reins like a whip and the ominous inscription “You Will Be Returned.”

Posted inArt

The Cross-Border Work of the Rubin Center’s New Curator 

Avatar photo by Nancy Zastudil June 6, 2022June 6, 2022

“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.

Posted inArt

An Intimate Look at the Landscape of the South Texas Borderlands

Avatar photo by Lauren Moya Ford December 19, 2021December 20, 2021

Though the area has been at the center of recent border wall debates, its complexity and diversity have been politicized and oversimplified for centuries.

Posted inArt

The Tricky Role of Humor in Activist Art and Design

Avatar photo by Elizabeth S. Hawley October 25, 2021October 25, 2021

An SFMOMA exhibition raises questions about what it means when museum board members have ties to politicians who support border wall policies.

Posted inBooks

The Disruptive Architecture of Border Walls

Avatar photo by Lauren Moya Ford September 20, 2021September 20, 2021

Rafał Milach sharply documents three international border walls and how they impact our sense of identity and memory.

Posted inNews

See the Striking Photos that Competed for the Bird Photographer of the Year Awards

Avatar photo by Valentina Di Liscia September 9, 2021September 9, 2021

Mexican photographer Alejandro Prieto’s image of a roadrunner at the US-Mexico border took home the top prize.

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Why a Photo Exhibit of Objects Seized at Border Control Feels Sanitized

by Jacquelyn Ardam January 17, 2020January 17, 2020

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.

Posted inArt

Gloria Anzaldúa’s Groundbreaking Book About Life on the Borders Gets a Marathon Reading

by Marisa Crawford October 28, 2019October 28, 2019

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

Avatar photo by Hrag Vartanian July 4, 2019

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

by Hakim Bishara June 27, 2019August 30, 2019

“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.

Carlos Garaicoa’s “Yo no quire ver mas a mis vecinos” ("I do not want to see my neighbors anymore," 2006) and the landscape around Castello di Ama (photo by Hrag Vartanian/Hyperallergic)
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Artists and Arts Workers Call on Institutions to Reject Calling Trump’s Border Wall Art [UPDATED]

Avatar photo by Benjamin Sutton February 6, 2018February 8, 2018

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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