Front cover: Thomas Glassford, Dolores Facing Right: Homage to Richard Prince, 2005
Altered album cover
81/2 x 11 inches

Back cover: Torolab (Raúl Cárdenas Osuna), Securitree. Prototype., 2004
Steel, transmitter: 24" x 57" x 7'3"
Manufacturers: Bernardo Gutiérrez and Ana Martínez, Mexico
Courtesy the Museum of Modern Art, New York

FEATURES

Demographic Extensions or

Simply Homeland Insecurity

- Thomas Glassford -

I grew up with a view, literally, of the borderor, by my personal interpretation, la frontera: the frontier. My parent's home...

Whipped Cream & Other Delights or

if you are mean enough to steal from the blind, help yourself*

- Victor Zamudio-Taylor -

The classic film noir Touch of Evil (1958) is emblematic, exploring dominant stereotypes of the U.S.-Mexico border as a zone of transgressiona third space...

Border Scenes

Testimony, Social Art and
Activism along Mexico's Northern Border

- Claudia Arozqueta -

Mexico's northern border suggests rupture and mutilationa wound opened by the loss of territory to the United States in the mid-nineteenth century. Even today, Mexican-held land in this region is still...

Nuts and Bolts

Making the Blue Star 20 Exhibition
A Curators Report

- Tony Jones -

From the outset, it was clear that Blue Star 20 was to be a celebrationan anniversary and birthday party of sorts: Blue Star is 20 and "yeeha!" as they say...

We're Armed and We're Protecting Our Nation

- Dave Anderson -

Art as Opinion

Marcos Ramirez ERRE

- Kate Bonansinga -

The University of Texas at El Paso's unique positioning on the United States-Mexico border empowers its one-year-old Stanlee and Gerald Rubin Center for the Visual Arts to...

Sofia

- Ito Romo -

Sofia stared up at an airplane in the clear blue northern Mexico sky and said, "When I was young, there were no airplanes. Imagine. No airplanes. Every time...

Jim Love

- D. F. Brown -

Born in Amarillo in 1927, sculptor Jim Love found "far enough" in Houston. He lived there in harmony until his passing last Mayliving, as fellow...