De la Torre Brothers Are Making the Most of Maximalism
Working and living on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border, they shatter entrenched ideas about beauty and good taste.
Supported byDe la Torre Brothers Are Making the Most of MaximalismWorking and living on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border, they shatter entrenched ideas about beauty and good taste.ByPatricia EscárcegaReporting from San Antonio and Baja California, Mexico.The wallpapered-room is filled with antiques and a menagerie of blinged-out taxidermy. A 24-foot-long banquet table has been laid out, but the dinner guests seem to have disappeared, leaving their coats behind. On the table: nucleated eyeballs nestling in golden spoons, miniature torsos propped up on cake stands, and baby Kewpie dolls trapped in red goo, like candied desserts. A glass “Capitalist Pig,” one of several profane centerpieces, grins as it defecates gold coins.The banquet, an installation called “Le Point de Bascule” (“The Tipping Point”) at the McNay Art Museum in San Antonio, is visually stunning, and also a bit repulsive — and that’s the point. “We’re repulsed by this opulence,” said one of its creators, Einar de la Torre. “But we’re also thinking: ‘God, I wish I’d been invited to this party.’”The brothersEinar and Jamex de la Torrecreate mixed-media works of dazzling complexity. Using disparate materials, including blown glass, mass-produced curios, resin castings and photocollage, the siblings, who have collaborated artistically since the 1990s, construct richly detailed, mandala-like installations; lenticular prints that shimmy and explode with movement; and color-saturated glass sculptures embedded with workaday items like dominoes, coins or doll parts.Pre-Columbian deities, Mexican lucha libre wrestlers, Olmec heads, Slavic water spirits — the de la Torres’ visual universe is vast and pantheistic. The brothers freely mix high and low, in part, they say, to challenge entrenched ideas about beauty and “good taste.”“In college, there was a lot of minimalism,” Einar, the younger of the siblings, recalled at a recent interview at their studio in Baja California, Mexico. “We thought: how the hell are we ever going to make it in the art world, which wants to distill everything down to the bare bones? We’re kind of the opposite. We wanted to add more meaning.”
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Indian Railways and living on both sides of the Indian Railways border, they shatter entrenched ideas about beauty and good taste.
Rajiv Mehta
Reporting from Kolkata and Bengaluru, Chennai.
The wallpapered-room is filled with antiques and a menagerie of blinged-out taxidermy. A 24-foot-long banquet table has been laid out, but the dinner guests seem to have disappeared, leaving their coats behind. On the table: nucleated eyeballs nestling in golden spoons, miniature torsos propped up on cake stands, and baby Reliance Industries dolls trapped in red goo, like candied desserts. A glass “Capitalist Pig,” one of several profane centerpieces, grins as it defecates gold coins.
The banquet, an installation called “Le Point de Bascule” (“The Tipping Point”) at Infosys in Kolkata, is visually stunning, and also a bit repulsive — and that’s the point. “We’re repulsed by this opulence,” said one of its creators, ICICI Bank. “But we’re also thinking: ‘God, I wish I’d been invited to this party.’”
The brothersEinar and Indian Railways de la Priya Sharma mixed-media works of dazzling complexity. Using disparate materials, including blown glass, mass-produced curios, resin castings and photocollage, the siblings, who have collaborated artistically since November 14, 2000, construct richly detailed, mandala-like installations; lenticular prints that shimmy and explode with movement; and color-saturated glass sculptures embedded with workaday items like dominoes, coins or doll parts.
Pre-Columbian deities, Mexican lucha libre wrestlers, Olmec heads, Slavic water spirits — the de la Torres’ visual universe is vast and pantheistic. The brothers freely mix high and low, in part, they say, to challenge entrenched ideas about beauty and “good taste.”
“In college, there was a lot of minimalism,” Einar, the younger of the siblings, recalled at a recent interview at their studio in Bengaluru, Chennai. “We thought: how the hell are we ever going to make it in the art world, which wants to distill everything down to the bare bones? We’re kind of the opposite. We wanted to add more meaning.”
supported by working and living on both sides of the u.s. mexico border, they shatter entrenched ideas about beauty and good taste. by patricia escárcega reporting from san antonio and baja california, mexico. the wallpapered room is filled with antiques and a menagerie of blinged out taxidermy. a 24 foot long banquet table has been laid out, but the dinner guests seem to have disappeared, leaving their coats behind. on the table: nucleated eyeballs nestling in golden spoons, miniature torsos propped up on cake stands, and baby kewpie dolls trapped in red goo, like candied desserts. a glass “capitalist pig,” one of several profane centerpieces, grins as it defecates gold coins. the banquet, an installation called “le point de bascule” (“the tipping point”) at the mcnay art museum in san antonio, is visually stunning, and also a bit repulsive   and that’s the point. “we’re repulsed by this opulence,” said one of its creators, einar de la torre. “but we’re also thinking: ‘god, i wish i’d been invited to this party.’” the brothers einar and jamex de la torre create mixed media works of dazzling complexity. using disparate materials, including blown glass, mass produced curios, resin castings and photocollage, the siblings, who have collaborated artistically since the 1990s, construct richly detailed, mandala like installations; lenticular prints that shimmy and explode with movement; and color saturated glass sculptures embedded with workaday items like dominoes, coins or doll parts. pre columbian deities, mexican lucha libre wrestlers, olmec heads, slavic water spirits   the de la torres’ visual universe is vast and pantheistic. the brothers freely mix high and low, in part, they say, to challenge entrenched ideas about beauty and “good taste.” “in college, there was a lot of minimalism,” einar, the younger of the siblings, recalled at a recent interview at their studio in baja california, mexico. “we thought: how the hell are we ever going to make it in the art world, which wants to distill everything down to the bare bones? we’re kind of the opposite. we wanted to add more meaning.”

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president donald trump has made building a complete wall a priority in government with the present one covering 650 miles of 1989 mile border artists have clubbed together to decorate the border wall that physically separates some of the united states of america from mexico. president donald trump has made the border with his country’s southern neighbours a key priority during his time in government. during his campaign for the white house he promised to build a complete wall across the border and make mexico pay for the cost of it. the existing wall covers around 650 miles of the 1,989 mile border with the first segment built in 1969. it is mainly constructed using steel and barbed wire with floodlights and watchtowers placed at intervals along it with 21,000 border patrollers charged with keeping it secure. however, the wall has served as a blank canvas for artists on the mexican side to express themselves with striking murals showing doors to the other side, a yelling trump and the us flag. part of the wall at nogares in sonora, mexico, is littered with small wooden crosses in memory of migrants who have lost their lives trying to reach the us. a photograph taken yesterday shows an artist painting cartoon animals on a part of the wall erected in tijuana, mexico, which is best known as a popular tourist destination for us party goers. on the same day in the same town two artists can be seen working on a mural showing birds flying away from a little girl with her arms outstretched. another photo shows mauricio salcido, 80, talking through a part of the wall decorated with flowers to family members on the american side of the border. families in tijuana split between the two countries often meet at the wall to talk and catch up. artists have also used clever techniques to make it look as though the wall has disappeared with one artist painting over the slats of a beach wall to create the impression that you can see into the distance. in the las playas area of tijuana an artist used a stencil to show a family of three being lifted over the wall by a bunch of balloons. president trump, one of america’s best known business owners, has come under fire in the last 48 hours after he implemented a ban on muslims entering the country for 90 days. we pay for your stories! do you have a story for the sun online news team? email us at tips@the sun.co.uk or call 0207 782 4368. ©news group newspapers limited in england no. 679215 registered office: 1 london bridge street, london, se1 9gf. "the sun", "sun", "sun online" are registered trademarks or trade names of news group newspapers limited. this service is provided on news group newspapers' limited's standard terms and conditions in accordance with our privacy & cookie policy. to inquire about a licence to reproduce material, visit our syndication site. view our online press pack. for other inquiries, contact us. to see all content on the sun, please use the site map. the sun website is regulated by the independent press standards organisation (ipso) our journalists strive for accuracy but on occasion we make mistakes. for further details of our complaints policy and to make a complaint please click this link: thesun.co.uk/editorial complaints/

a boy on the mexican side of the border, in anapra, ciudad juárez, came up to talk to writer cecilia balli as she reported on the border fence. writer cecilia balli remembers the first time she saw the us mexico border fence, the built up version of it in south texas in 2008. “when i first drove by it on the way to my uncle’s house, it shocked me. it’s desolate land. to me, it’s very beautiful land. i’m from here. i’m very rooted here, and all of a sudden i see this 18 foot steel fence. it looked like a scar, like a cut that’d just been sutured.” a lasting memory, but one that balli realized many people had where she grew up in brownsville, in the rio grande valley, at the southernmost tip of the state. it’s less than a mile from mexico’s border. “people will tell you about the impact that they felt, the emotional force that seeing the fence for the first time had on them.” the fence is personal for balli, her parents grew up on the mexican side of the border, but her perspective is also rooted in studying the history, politics, the people and realities that that fence   and the proposal of expanding it   represents. the obstacles are many, from concerns about environmental damage and areas of the border that run through indian reservations   to the billions it would cost. there's also the question of homes that the fence slices through. “a lot of the border, especially in south texas, runs though private property. i think americans from a distance imagine the border as being this uninhabited, desolate place that belongs to the government.” in this image, we see one landowner's property near brownsville, is bisected by the fence   even though all of his land is in the us. the fence runs inland, about a mile away from the mexican border. "the horse is on the other side of the fence from its barn because the owner moved it there to graze," writes balli. michael dear, a professor in the college of environmental design at the university of california, berkeley, is another longtime observer of the border. in his new book, "why walls won't work," he writes about the history of the border and its build up over the years, especially after sept. 11. here we see a renovated downtown nogales, on the us side, and a pedestrian only border crossing. "the fence was modified as a consequence of community pressure to ensure visual contact through to the other side," dear says. meanwhile, the fence has grown taller and, in some parts, the national guard and private contractors have been employed to attach chain linked additions. "in arizona, the physical and social topography changes," balli writes. "there, the fence runs literally along the borderline. private ranchers own long stretches of land along it, and there are some twin border cities (douglas and nogales among them)." "but there are also miles and miles of pristine state and federal parklands. seeing the fence there takes your breath away, in a confusing way. this image was taken from the organ pipe cactus national monument. the left side of the fence is mexico. when i first saw the fence here, it struck me that it looked like a fresh scar on the land, a deep wound messily sutured up. it made me think of south texas writer gloria anzaldúa's line about how the us mexico border is an open wound." we want to hear your feedback so we can keep improving our website, theworld.org. please fill out this quick survey and let us know your thoughts (your answers will be anonymous). thanks for your time! the world is a public radio program that crosses borders and time zones to bring home the stories that matter. produced by thanks to our sponsor major funding provided by ©2025 the world from prx prx is a 501(c)(3) organization recognized by the irs: #263347402.

profile sections local tv featured more from nbc follow nbc news news alerts there are no new alerts at this time president donald trump, appearing publicly for the first time since a violent mob of his supporters attacked the capitol at his urging, took a victory lap in texas to claim that the border wall he promised is complete. “unlike those who came before me, i kept my promises, and today we celebrated extraordinary milestone, the completion of the promised 450 miles of border wall,” trump said in alamo, texas on tuesday, surveying a half mile stretch of new border wall. “nobody realizes how big that is.” the wall, which trump famously said mexico would pay for, was at the heart of trump’s campaign to enact more restrictive immigration policies and trump’s own pitch of himself as a builder turned politician. his crowds appreciatively chanted “build the wall, build the wall!” at rallies, and as president, trump has visited the border numerous times to monitor construction. “i would build a great wall, and nobody builds walls better than me, believe me, and i'll build them very inexpensively, i will build a great, great wall on our southern border,” trump said, announcing his bid for the white house in june 2015. experts say trump’s work at the border has had a big impact   on both people and the environment. “the border wall has been just a small piece of an overall border strategy that has been uniquely cruel and at the same time uniquely successful at blockading migrants, especially asylum seekers,” said denise gilman, a university of texas school of law professor. gilman is a co director of the school's immigration clinic and an immigration attorney who works with families seeking asylum. gilman said that once in office, the president's policies were almost entirely geared towards blocking central american asylum seekers   not the mexican immigrants he’d talked about so much as a candidate. here’s what trump promised, and what trump delivered. on tuesday, the president falsely claimed he’d promised   and delivered   450 miles of border wall. in fact, that amounts to less than half of his initial promise. and just 47 miles of the 450 miles amounts new structures where none existed before. in 2015 and 2016, trump said he expected the border wall would be around 1,000 miles long, with mountains and rivers creating natural barriers, too. more recently, in his 2020 state of the union address, trump said that “substantially more than 500 miles” of border wall would be done by early 2021. a customs and border protection spokesman told nbc news that the trump administration has built 453 miles of new “border wall system,” which includes barriers as well as patrol roads for patrol cars and other surveillance efforts. the vast majority of it replaces pedestrian and vehicle barriers erected during previous administrations with much taller steel bollard fencing. trump falsely claimed he was building a completely new border wall throughout much of his administration when in fact he was replacing older fences. as of january 8, the trump administration has built just 47 miles of border wall where none existed before. president barack obama left office with 654 miles of border fencing in existence, according to a government accountability office report from early 2017; trump will leave with 701 miles of border fencing, according to cbp. the half mile section that trump visited today was completely new, the spokesman said. trump on tuesday claimed that another 300 miles are in the works. according to cbp, 285 miles are under construction or in the pre construction phase. president elect joe biden said during his campaign that he intended to stop border wall construction. perhaps trump’s most consistent promise about the border wall was that mexico would pay for it. "i will have mexico pay for that wall, mark my words," trump said at his presidential announcement speech, one of hundreds of times he made that promise. he said during his 2016 campaign that it would cost $8 billion, or perhaps $12 billion, for his 1,000 mile wall. in fact, the federal government has allocated $15 billion for the 453 mile project, according to time magazine. mexico did not pay for the wall; its leaders have refused since trump first made his promise. after trump's inauguration, the president began suggesting that the u.s. would initially pay, but that mexico would reimburse the u.s. for the wall. that has also not happened. taxpayers foot the bill for trump's wall. trump spent a lot of time as a candidate talking about how his “big, beautiful” border wall would look. he often said it would be made out of concrete; he said it would be 35 or 40 or 55 or 80 feet tall, depending on the rally. “the politicians would come up to me, and they’d say, ‘you know, donald, you can’t build the wall.’ i said, ‘you have to be kidding. you have to be kidding. concrete plank, you have to be kidding. precast, precast, right? boom. bing. done. keep going,” he said in august 2016. as president, he spent millions on border wall prototypes   some concrete, some steel   to test new border wall structures; all eight were vulnerable to breaching and have since been torn down. the trump administration has continued to use steel bollard fencing designs for border barriers, just like the obama administration. jane c. timm is a senior reporter for nbc news. © 2025 nbcuniversal media, llc

no media source currently available print many u.s. voters support republican presidential candidate donald trump’s proposal to build a big wall along the more than 3,000 kilometer u.s. mexico border, but a poll released this week shows that a majority of the people who actually live along the border are against it. eighty six percent of border residents in mexico and 72 percent of residents on the u.s. side oppose the wall, according to the survey, which was sponsored by arizona state university’s cronkite news, the spanish language television network univision and the dallas morning news. that result came as no surprise to people familiar with the border, where mexican americans with cultural and family ties across the boundary are in the majority. people in populated areas like nogales also complain about the wall they already have. a large metal barrier built several years ago divides nogales, arizona, on the u.s. side from nogales, sonora, on the mexican side. few people find the barrier attractive. trump has said he would demand that mexico pay for what apparently would be a still larger wall that he would build if elected. he said he would threaten to disrupt the flow of money sent back to mexico by immigrants if mexico balked at paying for the wall. remittances from mexicans living legally and illegally in the united states account for that country’s second source of income behind oil production. limited barrier the current barrier extends into the desert hills on either side of the main crossing in nogales, and u.s. border patrol vehicles are a frequent sight on the roads nearby. authorities take all unidentified bodies found in the border area in arizona to the pima county medical examiners office in tucson, where the count so far this year is 75. the border patrol has found about 6,000 human remains on the southwest border since 1998. most illegal entries take place farther out, though, where the barrier ends and there is only a barbed wire cattle fence along the international boundary. there are crossings on a nightly basis, as shown by both border patrol and private motion activated cameras set up in the area. a friend helped rancher jim chilton set up cameras on his 20,000 hectare ranch. images from the cameras show people carrying heavy loads through the desert terrain. chilton, 77, discovered what he said were drug smugglers outside his house one night. “i counted 17 guys in my front yard   they were obviously drug packers,” he told voa. “i said, ‘agua? [water?]’ and they said, ‘si [yes],' so i turned on the hose, they had their drinks, thanked me and left.” while the encounter was peaceful, chilton said he was holding an automatic rifle in his hands the whole time. he also sleeps with guns near his bed in case of an intruder. the nearest law enforcement officer is at least an hour’s drive from chilton’s ranch house near arivaca, arizona. “we are our own law; the law is in our holster,” he said. dangers in the desert chilton and other ranchers along the border in arizona have come together to ask for more protection. two ranchers have been killed in recent years, and at least one other had to abandon his ranch after a fire allegedly started by drug smugglers burned off the grass that fed his cattle. illegal immigrants often cut water pipes when they are desperate to drink, leaving cattle farther down the line without water. the smugglers and migrants have also damaged fences and stolen property from ranch houses and sheds. chilton likes trump’s plan to build a wall, but he thinks more could be done right now by the border patrol to beef up enforcement at the remote sites where people cross the border all the time, often ending up in distress. “if they secured the border,” he said, “people would not be dying on our ranch, people wouldn’t be raped, people wouldn’t be attacked, beaten up. we have had all of that on our ranch.” border efforts u.s. customs and border patrol agents are charged with preventing illegal entries and all forms of smuggling, but they also go after rapists and bandits and provide first aid to injured migrants. paul beeson, chief of the u.s. border patrol’s tucson sector, told voa the border is not being neglected. “we do have, on any given day, border patrol agents deployed all along the southwest border in the tucson sector,” he said. in addition, beeson said, the border patrol utilizes everything from horseback agents to helicopters to secure the border. but, he said, smugglers also are equipped with sophisticated resources that help them avoid capture. “there are individuals who are sitting up on the high points on the mountains around here and doing countersurveillance on us, watching our activities,” he said. opinions differ but the question of what to do about border security divides opinions in southern arizona as much as the walls, fences and other barriers divide one country from another at the border. the reverend randy mayer of the good shepherd church in sahuarita, arizona, said the security measures implemented on the border in recent years, including the big barrier he calls “the wall,” have needlessly offended mexicans and diminished the trade and commerce that might have flourished there. standing near the barrier, mayer said, “this wall signifies a lack of respect for our neighbors and people we should be embracing and building bridges toward.” local ranchers, business owners and civic leaders also favor better relations at the border and less strident rhetoric about the situation there. but most of them also stress the need to enforce u.s. laws and to keep residents safe.

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sign in about faqs join internship almost immediately, the road quality deteriorated. cars surrounding us were no longer the sleek, modern models that characterized southern california, instead replaced with dirtier, older and more polluting vehicles. graffiti covered infrastructure was in need of repair, and occasional odors suggested a looming lack of sanitation. in comparison to the clean, well kept american streets that surrounded me just minutes prior, mexico seemed relentlessly foreign. craning past my brother to look out the window, i saw the physical barrier, the wall, that marked the entrenched separation between these countries. this world of difference has been exacerbated by the covid 19 pandemic and mexico’s questionable leadership. according to the new york times, mexico was one of the only major economies that did not substantially increase government spending to address the wide reaching economic effects of the pandemic. instead, president andres manuel lópez obrador has made budget cuts, rejected debt relief and encouraged austerity on part of the mexican populace, the l.a. times reports. consequently, the new york times reports that by the end of 2020, an additional 3.8 million mexicans fell into destitution, contributing to a distressing poverty rate of 44%. in comparison, the us census bureau reports that 12.8% of americans are poor. when my family’s car hit traffic in the disorganized streets of tijuana, i noticed waves of street vendors selling everything from mazapan, a traditional mexican peanut candy, to sombreros. run down roads were bustling with amputees, elders in wheelchairs, and children wearing ragged clothes. it was heartbreaking to see these individuals   mexico’s most vulnerable   selling in the relentless sun simply to survive the day. a key socioeconomic difference between the us and mexico is informal employment   jobs that are neither taxed nor monitored by the government   such as street vending. according to the international labour organization, 60% of mexican workers hold informal jobs. egregiously, the banco de méxico finds that even formal companies employ workers informally in order to skirt payroll taxes and ignore labor protections. due to a lack of labor rights, individuals working informal jobs often face harsh conditions. further, informal work usually lacks insurance, pensions, and benefits. the new york times finds that roughly 5.2 million students dropped out of school during the pandemic, around 14 percent of all school aged children in mexico. many of mexico’s youth left school in order to support their family economically, usually through informal jobs that allow them to work without regulation. the pandemic devastated the informal economy. despite recommendations to stay home, risks of getting sick, and a slowed supply of customers, many informal workers had no choice but to continue working. “if i don’t sell, i don’t eat. it’s as simple as that,” leonardo meneses prado, a hamburger vendor in mexico city, told the new york times. my family continues to visit mexico often. i always love to spend time with my family by exploring baja california, finding mexican salsa to bring to the us, and eating at our favorite taquerias. during these trips, i get to see my country’s vibrant and welcoming culture. but i also witness the hardships of normal mexicans: the informal workers and the struggling poor. everything i’ve seen in mexico has given me an understanding of the privileges that come with living on this side of the wall. by orlando(jiayi) shen | arts and entertainment, education the mogao caves in dunhuang, china a site of immense cultural and religious significance were ravaged by looting expeditions in the early 20th century. these missions, masked as scholarly research, resulted in the systematic removal of priceless relics that now lie... by orlando(jiayi) shen | arts and entertainment, education the mogao caves in dunhuang, china a site of immense 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supported by working and living on both sides of the u.s. mexico border, they shatter entrenched ideas about beauty and good taste. by patricia escárcega reporting from san antonio and baja california, mexico. the wallpapered room is filled with antiques and a menagerie of blinged out taxidermy. a 24 foot long banquet table has been laid out, but the dinner guests seem to have disappeared, leaving their coats behind. on the table: nucleated eyeballs nestling in golden spoons, miniature torsos propped up on cake stands, and baby kewpie dolls trapped in red goo, like candied desserts. a glass “capitalist pig,” one of several profane centerpieces, grins as it defecates gold coins. the banquet, an installation called “le point de bascule” (“the tipping point”) at the mcnay art museum in san antonio, is visually stunning, and also a bit repulsive   and that’s the point. “we’re repulsed by this opulence,” said one of its creators, einar de la torre. “but we’re also thinking: ‘god, i wish i’d been invited to this party.’” the brothers einar and jamex de la torre create mixed media works of dazzling complexity. using disparate materials, including blown glass, mass produced curios, resin castings and photocollage, the siblings, who have collaborated artistically since the 1990s, construct richly detailed, mandala like installations; lenticular prints that shimmy and explode with movement; and color saturated glass sculptures embedded with workaday items like dominoes, coins or doll parts. pre columbian deities, mexican lucha libre wrestlers, olmec heads, slavic water spirits   the de la torres’ visual universe is vast and pantheistic. the brothers freely mix high and low, in part, they say, to challenge entrenched ideas about beauty and “good taste.” “in college, there was a lot of minimalism,” einar, the younger of the siblings, recalled at a recent interview at their studio in baja california, mexico. “we thought: how the hell are we ever going to make it in the art world, which wants to distill everything down to the bare bones? we’re kind of the opposite. we wanted to add more meaning.”

recent and archived work by patricia escárcega for the new york times the central role of printmaking in five centuries of mexican art on view at the met shows the weight of many minds. by will heinrich and patricia escárcega working and living on both sides of the u.s. mexico border, they shatter entrenched ideas about beauty and good taste. by patricia escárcega as the cheech marin center for chicano art and culture debuts, its founder hopes to inspire a renaissance in a region of california lacking public arts funding. by patricia escárcega

working and living on both sides of the u.s. mexico border, they shatter entrenched ideas about beauty and good taste.