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Carlos Merida’s mural at HemiFair Park may well be San Antonio’s first public Mexican modern art piece [Fig. 1*]. In Mexican Modern Art, critic Fausto…
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Mexico and the U.S. borderlands have produced many artists; however, the number of photographers who have covered both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border…
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Growing up in El Paso, Texas “with Juarez, Mexico in my backyard,” Latino artist Richard Armendariz found himself “saturated with a mix of romanticism…
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These three recently published books contribute to our understanding of the Latino experience in the U.S. Southwest.
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Luis Jimenez represents one of the premier sculptors and painters of the new Latino art generation. Rudolfo Anaya, the highly acclaimed New Mexico…
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In its forty-four-year history, San Antonio’s Central Cultural Aztlan has been led by only two executive directors. Carlos Gomez served as founding…
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On November 18, Ruiz-Healy Art opened its exhibition Ruiz-Healy Art: Quinceañera commemorating the fifteen-year anniversary of the art gallery in San…
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In 1990 Chicano muralism in San Antonio had fallen onto hard times. The more than 50 murals completed at the Cassiano Homes were beginning to fade…
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In 1991 the Austin City Council proclaimed Austin as the “Live Music Captial of the World,” and thirty years later the vibrant music scene found its…
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The seventies are remembered as a monumental decade for most Americans. In the early years of the decade President Richard Nixon’s resignation and the…
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The most recent U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics show promising employment figures and a drop in unemployment rates for the third quarter of this year…
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