Champions of Chicano Art Need to Face Reality: A Response to Cheech Marin’s New Art Center
Champions of Chicano Art Need to Face Reality: A Response to Cheech Marin’s New Art Center
*Why you should read this: Because “If you don’t like how mainstream museums are neglecting important collections, then build your own.” VL By Karen Mary Davalos, artnet (6 minute read) For […]
David Bowie in Aztlán
*Fantastic! The a story of a Bowie-inspired rock opera, created by Chicano students in Crystal City, Texas. Well worth the 6 minute investment. VL By Gregg Barrios, The Texas Observer […]
Smithsonian releases Fresno musician’s songs of the Chicano movement
*This is very cool, and very relevant. VL By Andrea Castillo, Fresno Bee (2.5 minute read) Agustín Lira, whose music became the anthem of the farmworker movement in the 1960s, released […]
This L.A. Delivery Man Amassed One of the World’s Largest Collections of Chicano Art
*Wow! Six-thousand six-hundred pieces of Chicano art, kept in a two bedroom apartment in Whittier, California. Seventy-four year-old Enrique Serrato has been collecting since he was 16. VL By Emily […]
Chicano Art: Jose Montoya’s Restless Abundance
*Montoya was the founder of the Royal Chicano Air Force, originally called the Rebel Chicano Art Front the acronym gave way to a name change and the locura that it […]
L.A. Delivery Man Amassed One of the World’s Largest Collections of Chicano Art
*I love stories that uncover gems like this: “He started it “on a shoestring” at age 16, paying a few dollars down and a few dollars a week for pieces […]
