Tony Floyd

Oct 2, 2024 | nytimes.com | Zoë Lescaze |Tony Floyd

T's Art issue looks at the iconoclastic artists who have found power in saying no. BELEN, N.M., IS a sun-bleached stucco town set in a vast expanse of desert. From here to the horizon, there's almost nothing taller than a telephone pole. Highway signs offer ominous haikus ("Notice / Do not pickup hitchhikers / Prison facilities") and inadvertent riddles ("Dust storms may exist"). Although it's only 35 miles south of Albuquerque, Belen feels utterly removed from the rhythms of urban life.