Latino arts, history and culture
2024 has been a good year for Latino Art. Museum and gallery shows in Santa Fe, Houston, and New York City in November and December highlight the deep talent and rich variety of Latino Southwestern … [Read more...]
Encouraging Initiatives of Chicano Art Chicano art has existed for over fifty years in the United States, but until recently it has been virtually invisible to major museum audiences in the … [Read more...]
César Martinez’s Retrospective Show: A Tribute To A Maestro Of Chicano Art On October 24, 2024, the Ruiz-Healy Gallery in San Antonio opened a marvelous Chicano art exhibit, César A. Martínez: … [Read more...]
A Latino Art Gallery Opens at San Antonio HBCU Campus On October 23, 2024, St. Philip’s College in San Antonio opened the Romo Gallery in the new Cybersecurity building on campus. St. Philip’s … [Read more...]
Fresco Artist Frederico Vigil’s Passion Preserves Ancient Art Tradition. A magnificent fresco by New Mexican Maestro Frederico Vigil is near completion on a stairwell of the Convention Center in … [Read more...]
The Day of the Dead Has Risen to Great Acclaim Día de los Muertos ("Day of the Dead") is coming, and its macabre observance across many Latino communities in the US is highly anticipated … [Read more...]
Visionary Concepts of Amalia Mesa-Bains at San Antonio Museum of Art The San Antonio Museum of Art retrospective, Amalia Mesa-Bains: Archaeology of Memory, is impressive and a triumph for the … [Read more...]
A Latino Art Exhibit in Querétaro, Mexico Draws Attention to a Shared History An exhibit of Chicano art, Al Otro Lado del Espejo [The Other Side of the Mirror], opened at the Museo de Arte de … [Read more...]
Mexican Prints at the Vanguard at The New York Metropolitan Museum of Art Going to the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art [Met] this month is one of the many ways to celebrate National Hispanic … [Read more...]
Rolando Briseño: A 50-Year Retrospective at the San Antonio Centro de Artes Gallery. Seventy-five stunning drawings, lithographs, screenprints, paintings, photographs, and sculptures dazzle … [Read more...]
Latino Art Gains National Recognition The news that the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. recently purchased sixteen screen prints from San Antonio artist Michael Menchaca for its … [Read more...]
The Ornelas Family Blends Delicious Puerto Rican Food with Outstanding Latino Art San Antonians love their Mexican food and appreciate Latino art. Dating back to the 1880s, writers and artists … [Read more...]
A Latino Art Journal: South Texas 2024 Walking into the University of California Los Angeles Chicano Studies Research Library one day in 1970 I saw the first Chicano mural in a higher education … [Read more...]
Terry Ybañez: Latina Artist and Community Activist Terry Ybañez knew at age five, as she drew and painted flowers and plants she saw in her grandmother’s garden, that she wanted to be an artist. … [Read more...]
Latino Art at New Mexico National Hispanic Cultural Center The National Hispanic Cultural Center [NHCC] is located in Albuquerque near the banks of the Rio Grande and is adjacent to the historic … [Read more...]
Santa Fe’s Traditional Spanish Market And Contemporary Market Attract Thousands of Art Lovers The 72nd annual Traditional Spanish Market opened last weekend, July 27-28, 2024 attracting an … [Read more...]
Latinos Featured at Art Museum of South Texas The Art Museum of South Texas in Corpus Christi opened in 1936 as the Centennial Museum. It became Art Museum of South Texas in 1945. In the early … [Read more...]
Latino Artist Vincent Valdez Makes Viewers Aware of Enforced Disappearance Vincent Valdez had a triumphant return to San Antonio Artpace after an absence of ten years. Now living in Houston and … [Read more...]
The Origins of Mexican and Latino Art in Texas When the newly appointed first governor of the Province of Tejas, Domingo Teran de los Rios, visited Tejas [Texas] in 1691-1692, he witnessed a … [Read more...]
Celia Álvarez Muñoz and Mauro Murillo Represent the Dynamic San Antonio Latino Art Community Among the major Texas cities, including Houston, Austin, Dallas, Corpus Christi, and El Paso, San … [Read more...]
The Contemporary at Blue Star Exhibit Xicanx: Dreamers-Changemakers Highlights Latino Artists The Xicanx: Dreamers-Changemakers exhibit opened at the San Antonio Contemporary at Blue Star this … [Read more...]
