Minerva Cuevas, Crossing of the Rio Bravo

Video by Art21. Minerva Cuevas looks back on "Crossing of the Rio Bravo" (2010), a work in which she painted a bridge across a riverbed that divides Mexico and the United States. On her visit to where the Rio Bravo / Rio Grande snakes through the Chihuahuan Desert, Cuevas found the media's depiction of the border is inaccurate. "Violence is a very strong element in this perception of what's t

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