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Bienvenidos y welcome to The Rasquache

Bienvendios y welcome to The Rasquache, an independent art criticism journal dedicated to centering and uplifting outsider perspectives from the margins of the art world and all its institutions: museums, galleries, academies, auction houses, and the broader art market.

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"To be rasquache is to posit a bawdy, spunky consciousness seeking to subvert and turn ruling paradigms upside down - a witty, irreverant and impertinent posture that recodes and moves outside established boundaries... Rasquachismo is neither an idea nor a style but more of an attitude or a taste." — Tomás Ybarra-Frausto, Rasquachismo: A Chicano Sensibility (1989)

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The Rasquache is an independent art criticism journal dedicated to centering outsider perspectives and the proletariat voice that exist at the margins of the art world.

Una revista independiente de crítica de arte dedicada a centrar las perspectivas desde afuera y la voz proletaria que existe en los márgenes del mundo del arte.

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