Essay

Over the years my definition of the word “border” has become fuzzier. I have learned about divisions that come from walls, language, geography, man-made structures, and unnecessary differences that cause conflict — something we are all witnessing currently.

In El Salvador, national pride comes with criticism. It is another one of the nation's binaries: the invitation to discuss such personal qualms, coupled with an assumed intimacy for the guest.

Leslie Moody Castro on her seamless (and accidental) boarder crossing between Estonia and Latvia.

Leslie Moody Castro writes about arriving in Warsaw, Poland, and being surprised by the nation's culture of capitalism.

Ruben Cordova revisits the myth of Cupid's Revenge through the story of Apollo and Daphne for Valentine's Day.

Leslie Moody Castro writes about her time in Ukraine while visiting Kiev and Lviv, and her troubles trying to cross the border with Poland.

Leslie Moody Castro writes about her time in Narva, how her family history converges with borders, and her connection to Ukraine

Peter Lucas on the films of Melvin van Peebles, a pioneer in African American cinema.

Leslie Moody Castro tells the story of her detainment by Estonian border patrol during her time in residence at the Narva Art Residency in Narva, Estonia.

I found myself in a surprisingly pleasurable moment a few years ago, which bound me to an artist and an art genre to which I had never given a single thought.

Part 3 of Leslie Moody Castro's reflections on her recent visit to the NART Artist Residency, which is located in the Estonian border town of Narva.

Rediscovering pictures of Houston's Galleria sent me spiraling back over the madness of the past two years. This, in turn, made me wonder what other lost photographs I could unearth from the depths of our first quarantine.

Part two of Leslie Moody Castro's reflections on her recent visit to the NART Residency, which is located in the Estonian border town of Narva.

Leslie Moody Castro on how a trip to the Estonian border town of Narva brought up memories of her family and life on the U.S.-Mexico border.

This year, we covered art and other happenings across our great state of Texas and beyond.

Ruben C. Cordova examines three phases in the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s practice of deaccessioning art from its collection.

The Guerrilla Girls' ongoing struggle, fought with words and images, has served to raise issues of diversity and inclusion and to inspire artists and activists around the globe, both within and beyond the world of art.

In this final iteration of Sala Stories, artist Yunhee Min remembers her 1999 project at San Antonio art space Sala Diaz.

This article is the third in an annual exploration of Catrina-related phenomena in art and popular culture written for Glasstire.

I can recall a skeleton Elvis I once saw. The scary pompadour works.