A New ASCO Documentary Can’t Nail Down This Slippery Artist Group—and That’s Not Always a Bad Thing

In the early 1970s, four artists from East Los Angeles got together for an exhibition with a provocative concept: to display their worst works. The resulting show gave them “asco” (the Spanish word for nausea or disgust), and thus was born ASCO, a collective that now ranks among the edgiest artists’ groups of the latter part of the 20th century.Related ArticlesWhat Was the Chicano Art Movement? 75 Latinx Artists to Know Or at least, that’s one origin story.There are