Collateral Damage: Art inspired by Mexico drug war gives new life to old building

Here art speaks the truth of a human tragedy

Art inspired by Mexico drug war gives new life to old building - Houston Chronicle: "BROWNSVILLE — Time has etched history into the bricks of 409 E. 13th; this pre-Civil War building a block from the Rio Grande has withstood the sieges, raids, blockade running, bootlegging and epic storms that have blown through this city at the tip of the Texas borderlands.

That history continues to unfold as the address takes on its latest incarnation as a gallery, workshop and meeting place for artists who find the rattling gunfire and smoke plumes from Matamoros, Mexico, whispered accounts of neighborhood teenagers believed dead after spurts of drug soldier glory and images of destruction and bloodshed coming across their computer screens all translating into a muse they can't ignore." Nov. 25, 2010, San Antonio Express-News