If you're lucky, you live in a town with a regular lowrider cruise, so you're familiar with the unexpected pleasure of seeing something glittering and striped in the next lane suddenly lift up like a ...
Two exhibitions — "Laloland" at Mesa Arts Center and "Desert Rider" at Phoenix Art Museum — highlight lowrider culture, a distinctively American art form. "Desert Rider" runs through Sept. 18 and ...
The newest exhibition at the Denver Art Museum celebrates the Chicano car culture that took root in the barrios of Southwestern America. "The lowrider is an integral part of the Southwestern landscape ...
rafa esparza tests out "Corpo RanfLA: Terra Cruiser," an artwork made for Art Basel Miami. (Star Montana/For The Times) This story is part of "Corpo RanfLA: Terra Cruiser," a special collaboration ...
CHICAGO — For Luis Martinez, competing in lowriding bike and car competitions is about more than glory and bragging rights. The lowrider clubs in the Chicago area have become like one big family and a ...
A lowrider car club in San Diego is memorializing its history by creating a mural in Chicano Park, a national and Mexican American cultural landmark. The Brown Image Car Club, founded in 1970 and one ...
In January of 2024 a new law in California ended the anti-cruising bans in the state, bans that were created in the 1980s in response to lowriders largely from Latino and Black communities. As the ...
WITH THE NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP ON JANUARY EIGHTH IN FRISCO, TEXAS. >> HIGHLIGHTING PHOTOGRAPHERS IN THE LOWRIDER COMMUNITY. THAT WAS THE GOAL OF TODAY’S EVENT AT THE LATINO CENTER FOR ART AND CULTURE ...
“Desert Rider” at the Phoenix Art Museum is a trip. The show focuses on car culture and skateboard culture in the American Southwest—specifically how it has been a resource and inspiration for both ...
As they walked down Fifth Street on a recent afternoon, a couple speaking Japanese stopped in front of a window display housing a bright orange Harley Davidson Road King. Its immaculate paint job was ...
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Lowrider cars these days are far more than tricked-out automobiles with gravity-challenged rear suspensions and ear-rattling exhaust systems that seem to cry out for local cops to ...
It began as a dream in 1977 when three San Jose State students launched Lowrider Magazine, growing it into an international publication and helping tell the stories and show the rolling artwork in and ...