Perhaps the best paragraph about NAFTA I've read so far:

Check out some slides from a lecture and video screening I'm going to give at California State University Northridge this Friday December 3 at noon in the lecture hall of the Oviatt Library. The talk is going to be called Adaptive Ecosystems in the Era of NAFTA: Tijuana's Informal Communities, and the public is most welcome to attend!

"Secrecy in democracy is a volatile combination."

--Trevor Paglen

Video by Estudio Teddy Cruz

Detroit: Making it Better for You by Kyong Park

"Strive to be obscure."

--Jeffrey Vallance

A few of David Hockney's IPad images:

Weekend in San Francisco:

Infinite City: Poison/Palate with the Artists' Collective OPENwater (click here)

The poet and artist Omar Pimienta.

A redux of Robert Smithson's essay "Cultural Confinement" (1972) courtesy Ken Ehrlich.

Yoshua Okón at the Yerba Buena Center (SF)

"White Russians" (2008): where the artist, his cameras, and and his art-world entourage spend some quality time with a working-class family in Wonder Valley, CA. (The 4-channel room installation allows you to join in the fun too.)





"Bocanegra" (2005-2007): Where the artist examines the recreational activities of a small group of Mexican Nazi enthusiasts: