Dots on the borderline
In 2006, artist David Taylor was driving along a remote dirt road, eager to get an up-close look at the United States’ border with Mexico, when he spied “a cast-iron obelisk incongruously placed in the middle of the desert.” That chance encounter with one of the 276 monuments marking the international boundary, as it extends from El Paso, Texas/Juárez to San Diego/ Tijuana, led to a seven-year photography project. The result is a series of images of the monuments, the sites surrounding them, and the people Taylor encountered along his way, including border patrol agents, immigrants, smugglers, and drug traffickers. A selection of his photos will be on view at the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies in a show co-sponsored by the Harvard Art Museums titled “David Taylor: Working the Line.” The exhibit, which runs through May 18, will be introduced with a panel discussion this evening from...