Collector’s Eye: an interview with Cheech Marin

Collector’s Eye: an interview with Cheech Marin

By Helen Stoilas – TheArtNewspaper.com – Photo: Flickr | Cuarandera. By 2021, California will have a new institution dedicated to Chicano art, thanks to the efforts of the Riverside Art Museum and the actor and comedian Cheech Marin, whose 700-work...
Lowrider Firsts

Lowrider Firsts

San José Public Library – SJPL.org – Image Not Credited. On December 15, 2018, the San Jose Public Library – California Room opened its first ever lowrider exhibit, Story and King: San Jose’s Lowrider Culture. With lowrider jams played by DJ...
Modern Expo Embraces Quinceañera Tradition

Modern Expo Embraces Quinceañera Tradition

By Melanie Trevino – Mesquite-News.com – Photo: Scutter, Flickr. Photo: The Quinceanera Expo at the Henry B Gonzalez Convention Center February 17, 2019 The Quinceañera Magazine hosts an expo here in San Antonio, Texas, which the magazine has coined as the...
Chicano Aesthetics: Rasquachismo exhibition catalog

Chicano Aesthetics: Rasquachismo exhibition catalog

SI.edu – Image: Archives of American Art. Exhibition catalog for Chicano Aesthetics: Rasquachismo, organized by MARS (Movimento Artistico del Rio Salado), an artspace in Phoenix, Arizona. The catalog features essays by Tomás Ybarra-Frausto, Shifra M. Goldman,...