You may think your favorite artist is an O.G. of the tattoo world. But compared with Freddy Negrete, almost everyone else is still a rookie. As one of the most experienced and influential tattoo ...

It was the first time he was face-to-face with a real Chicano gangster. Negrete had never seen someone so young inked with what were then called “prison-style” tattoos: ... stories in the art ...

A style of tattooing called "black and gray realism" has its roots in East Los Angeles' Chicano culture. It moved from penal institutions, to the barrios, to high-end tattoo shops around the world.

In the ‘80s and ‘90s, he adds, he witnessed the collision of emerging hip hop, tattoo culture, street art and street fashion as well as evolving lowrider car culture and the growing Chicano ...

The SXSW documentary 'ASCO: Without Permission' is a superbly edited and assembled chronicle of a 1970s Chicano art movement in Los Angeles.