David Sokolec

In many ways Mexico City seems as comfortable and familiar as the proverbial old shoe. With over 20 million people, it’s Big City personified and as soon as I arrived,…

There’s nothing like the outbreak of swine flu and a scale 6 earthquake to heighten the senses, and there is something equally inspiring watching a city of over 20 million…

Being here in D.F., as it is known, I feel like I’m being bathed in an atmosphere filled with internationally focused artists concentrating on exploring boundaries, pushing limits and feeling…

The El Paso art scene, never very robust from a commercial gallery standpoint, is taking some hits. For a very long time now, the Hal Marcus Gallery and the Adair…

So much has been written about the US-Mexican border, and so many stereotypes and assumptions, artistic and otherwise, have been made by people who have never been here, that the…

Dr. Michael Tomor recently became the new director of the El Paso Museum of Art. Born and raised in El Paso, he attended Penn State University for his undergraduate degree,…

Margarita Cabrera, whose full-sized soft sculpture Volkswagen was such an enormous success at Art Basel Miami, has been engaging her audience in a multilayered discussion on culture, consumerism, body image…

Currently showing at the UTEP student gallery is a small show, Fused, which brings together international students, teachers and professional artists with very different sensibilities.

Several exhibitions here in El Paso and across the border in Juarez recently have featured art by women, so it seems a good time to visit the notion of women…

With its brand new multimillion dollar visual arts center, UTEP has created an extraordinary opportunity to showcase contemporary art in this far-flung community.