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# The Radical Publishing Scene in Mexico and the US
- URL: https://hyperallergic.com/radical-publishing-weekend-fowler-museum-vpam/
- Published: 2018-10-08T19:30:11.000Z
- Updated: 2025-11-24T15:44:47.000Z
- Description: This weekend event at the Fowler and Vincent Price Museums will showcase Mexico's independent, politically minded publishing scene alongside Southern California's and beyond.
- Author: Elisa Wouk Almino
- Tags: Art, Events, Fowler Museum, Los Angeles, Vincent Price Art Museum, #wp, #wp-post, #image-position-hidden, #Import 2025-11-18 14:37 (2018)

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Gato Negro Ediciones, 2018

While the political divide between Mexico and the US has been deepening, the cross-cultural exchanges between the two countries have become richer or at least more prominent. This is particularly true of California, whose history is entwined with Mexico’s, with a Latino population hovering around 39 percent.

This Friday through Sunday, Los Angeles’s Fowler Museum is hosting the [Radical Publishing Weekend](https://www.fowler.ucla.edu/events/radical-publishing-weekend/?ref=hyperallergic.com), which will showcase Mexico’s independent, politically minded publishing scene alongside Southern California’s own (and beyond). Highlights include the LA-based [Tiny Splendor](http://www.tinysplendor.com/?ref=hyperallergic.com) and [Hesse Press](http://hessepresse.com/?ref=hyperallergic.com) and Mexico City publishing houses [La Casa de El Hijo del Ahuizote](https://www.facebook.com/casadelahuizote/) and [Gato Negro Ediciones](https://www.gatonegro.ninja/?ref=hyperallergic.com). The latter is displaying its signature Risograph books in a solo exhibition at the Fowler aptly titled [*South of No North*](https://www.fowler.ucla.edu/exhibitions/gato-negro-ediciones/?ref=hyperallergic.com). For more context on how contemporary radical publishing works in Mexico, there will be [a panel discussion](https://www.fowler.ucla.edu/events/radical-publishing-weekend/?ref=hyperallergic.com) with the Gato Negro founder, León Muñoz Santini, and the director of La Casa de El Hijo del Ahuizote, Diego Flores Magón, on Sunday at 1pm.

Over the on the east side of Los Angeles, the Vincent Price Art Museum (VPAM) is also hosting a few events in conjunction with the Fowler. In celebration of VPAM’s current exhibition, [*Regeneración: Three Generations of Revolutionary Ideology*](http://vincentpriceartmuseum.org/exhibitions%5Fregeneracion.html?ref=hyperallergic.com), focused on activist histories in the US and Mexico, the museum will [host conversations](https://www.eventbrite.com/e/regeneracion-symposium-day-1-tickets-50709623850?ref=hyperallergic.com) that revive the memories of 1990s youth and cultural spaces and the influence of radio and newspapers in Chicano organizing.

**When:** Friday, October 12–Sunday, October 14, 12pm–5pm  
**Where:** Fowler Museum (308 Charles E Young Dr N, Los Angeles) and Vincent Price Art Museum (1301 Avenida Cesar Chavez, Monterey Park)

*More info at the* [*Fowler Museum*](https://www.fowler.ucla.edu/events/radical-publishing-weekend/?ref=hyperallergic.com) *and* [*Vincent Price Art Museum*](https://www.eventbrite.com/e/regeneracion-symposium-day-1-tickets-50709623850?ref=hyperallergic.com).