Sandra Cisneros to receive PEN/Nabokov Award for international literature
Sandra Cisneros to receive PEN/Nabokov Award for international literature
Sandra Cisneros, the Mexican American novelist whose books “The House on Mango Street” and “Woman Hollering Creek” are widely considered contemporary classics of American literature, has won the PEN/Nabokov Award for […]
National Portrait Gallery Announces First Commission of an American Latino
*This is great news, but, why did it take so long? VL By NY Arts (1 minute read) The Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery has recently added new portraits of prominent […]
the Latino daily – Your Wednesday morning brief
TUESDAY, April 27, 2016 Good morning Taquistas! It’s storming in South Texas as I begin this – a wonderful show, lightening, rain, thunder, hail . . . Let’s get started […]
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 […]
Border-inspired Latino artists among 43 in U.S. featured in Smithsonian portrait exhibit
*Check it out. If you’re in Washington DC – Chicano, Latino artists are included, it runs until January 8. We should support our artistas. VL By Luis Gonzalez, Borderzine WASHINGTON – When […]
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 […]
Can a Colonial Crafts Town Survive Modern Mexico?
*The crafts made and sold around Pátzcuaro, México, are traditions that date back to 600AD. There are deep traditions from across the continent and the Caribbean that establish the prominence […]
Captive Genius
*Wonderful luchtime read! “From the isolation of a psych ward, Mexican immigrant Martín Ramírez became a 20th century master.” VL By Nancy Nusser, The Texas Observer In the 32 years […]
16 Latino Films to See in 2016
*While everyone else is watching the new Star Wars flick, you might want to catch some of these. VL By David Salazar, Latin Post 2015 turned out to be a […]
Journalist Sam Quinones is on a Mission to Photograph Every Mural of La Virgen de Guadalupe In LA
*Sam Quiñoes has been making pictures of Virgen de Guadalupe murals in Los Angeles since 2010. He does it on his spare time and has lost count of the mural […]
