LOS ANGELES — They met as teens, formed as young adults, and called their group “asco” — “nausea” or “disgust” in Spanish — after one of their early DIY exhibits. Their conceptual work and performance ...

When filmmaker Travis Gutiérrez Senger reflects on ASCO’s legacy, he quickly notes they were more than an art group; they created a movement, one with remarkable influence on Chicano art history.

“Radical Histories: Chicano Prints from the Smithsonian American Art Museum,” makes its West Coast debut at The Huntington’s Marylou and George Boone Gallery from Nov. 16 to March 2. Co-curated by ...

There’s a story about the late Austin artist José Francisco Treviño that some of his friends and family members tell. It’s 1993, and the Mexican American artist, then 52 years old and on a day off ...

Before his death in 2020, eminent Chicano historian Juan Gómez-Quiñones packed decades of Mexican American history into the garage and shed of the Pacific Palisades home he’d lived in for half a ...

Houston was once known as the murder capital of the country. In 1979 alone, there were 664 murders, and one in every four was Hispanic. Discrimination, distrust and a language barrier exacerbated the ...