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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,” th
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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.
Art
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.
Interview
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.
Art
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.
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Making Art from the Materials Left Behind at the US–Mexico Border
Along the 1,969-mile-long border between the United States and Mexico lie sneakers, teddy bears, toothbrushes, water jugs, tuna cans, and other miscellany — the objects left behind by migrants seeking better lives in a neighboring land.
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The Robots Being Built to Cross the US-Mexico Border
"For the last 15 years, I've been trying to solve the human," artist Chico MacMurtrie explained, surrounded by the mechanical beings which he's animated with metal and air in this quest to give his sculptures life.