Art & Culture

Mexican American filmmaker Travis Gutiérrez Senger follows the evolution of the Los Angeles-based art collective Asco, and their lasting impact on Chicano art.

Through essays, interviews, experimental poetry, photography, music, and performance, contributors examine how memory is made in the present and how artistic and collective practices can forge spaces of resistance and worldmaking.

The #RetoCuarentena series traces a poetics of confinement that links intimacy, gender, and militarization in Puerto Rico.

The X account @AssLatAm turns viral political absurdities into a counter-archive of regional populism, challenging the engineered amnesia of the digital timeline.

Tracing a journey from the gold mines of Timbiquí to the Pacific and on to Cali, Eblin Grueso’s Viaje en el Tiempo activates memory as a detonating force that affirms Black life.

In their book, the community of Sarhua and the Puriyninchik Association create a vital collection of Sarhuina history, memory, and daily life.

Mexico 86 highlights the parallels between the 1986 and 2026 FIFA World Cup, as well as the threads of corruption and scandal that bind them together.

What forms of listening make the commons possible in contexts of conflict? An approach to “wild listening” as a micropolitical practice in the face of contemporary violence.

Through sound, language, and trans embodiment, Arca reshapes experimental electronic music into a transnational Latin American practice of transformation and worldmaking.

The Summer 2026 issue of the NACLA Report explores artistic and cultural practices that activate memory, engage the archive, and expand the possibilities of collective life.

In his book, Andrew G. Britt explores the ways in which urban planning was used as a tool to erase São Paulo's once vibrant black neighborhoods.

Katia Chornik's book details how music was used as a form of torture and resistance during the Pinochet dictatorship.