In the Curator’s Words is an occasional series that takes a critical look at current exhibitions through the eyes of curators ...

Día de los Muertos is an important holiday for Mexicans and Mexican-Americans. While the holiday is celebrated around Latin ...

Mathew Sandoval is a teaching professor at Barrett, the Honors College at Arizona State University and author of "Día de los Muertos: A Chicano Arts Legacy." ...

Day of the Dead celebrations were introduced or revived in the 1960s and 1970s as part of the Chicano Civil Rights Movement.

The appropriation of working class clothing strips fashion of its history. Clothing is far more than the fabric it is made ...

Macario “Tosh” Carrillo is not a name you often hear associated with Chicano art. An actor, props designer and photographer, he appeared in New York avant-garde theater during the mid-1960s and ...

On a Monday morning in May 2015, artist David Avalos stood on the stage of a packed auditorium at the Getty Center in Los Angeles. He described a day in 1977 when white supremacist and former KKK ...

Third-year University of Minnesota Ph.D. student Kiara Padilla spent eight hours at the University’s Elmer L. Andersen Library combing through boxes of historical documents to share with artists in an ...

Ngo Cong Binh, a barber in Ho Cho Minh City, cuts a customer's hair. When Nguyen Phuoc Loc first started dabbling in Chicano culture eight years ago, it was simply because he liked the way that the ...

A college student watched as construction crews and machinery descended on a parched piece of land beneath the enormous highway pillars of a freeway intersection in Barrio Logan, or Logan Heights, the ...

In 1974, Rubén Guevara found himself climbing the steps of centuries-old Mayan pyramids in Palenque, Mexico. The Los Angeles native did not know then that the trip to connect with his ancestral roots ...