Celebrating 35 Years of Rasquachismo

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Celebrating 35 Years of Rasquachismo

SAN ANTONIO — The term “rasquachismo” describes a Chicanx aesthetics in which the banal is transformed into baroque exuberance through playful wit, as conceived by Tomás Ybarra-Frausto in 1989. Rasquachismo: 35 years of a Chicano Sensibility at the McNay Museum illustrates this conceptual framework — a working-class attitude with a “rough-and-tumble slapdash vitality” — through works drawn from the museum’s permanent collection. The exhibition m…