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Lowrider Cruising Spaces

October 11, 2011 | Posted by stevenlauriecom in

By Ben Chappell Américo Paredes Center for Cultural Studies University of Texas at Austin, USA benchapl@mail.utexas.edu This paper will be published in the forthcoming volume edited by Marc Priewe: Representations of Chicano/a Cultures *excerpt from beginning of text: Lowriders are cars customized and driven in U.S. cities mostly by Mexican Americans in the southwest. In […]

Rubén Ortiz Torres

October 7, 2011 | Posted by stevenlauriecom in contemporary art, Inspiration, Research

Ruben Ortiz-Torres was born in Mexico City in 1964. Educated within the utopian models of republican Spanish anarchism soon confronted the tragedies and cultural clashes of post colonial third world. After giving up the dream of playing baseball in the major leagues he decided to study art. He went first to the oldest and one […]