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Cheech Marin: Chicano art impresario (yes, that Cheech Marin)

In 2017, the Riverside Art Museum presented a touring exhibition of works on paper from the private collection of actor and comedian Cheech Marin. In 2022, the Riverside Art Museum opened the doors to the Cheech Marin Center for Chicano Art & Culture, which is focused on presenting art from Marin’s collection: namely, the Chicano artists he has championed and …

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You’d be hard-pressed to find someone with local roots deeper than L.A.-born Cheech Marin, who parlayed a 1970s stoner comedy act into a six-decade movie and TV career, becoming a high-profile collector of Chicano art along the way — all while living in the Greater L.A. area. Interesting!” I also get two newspapers — the New York Times and the …

Art about AIDS has often depicted grief. L.A. painter Joey Terrill made it about life

Joey Terrill was feeling grateful to be alive, but also conflicted about it. “Still-Life with Crixivan” is one of almost two dozen works by the artist — most of them still lifes — on view at Marc Selwyn Fine Art in Beverly Hills through early March. Terrill was born in Los Angeles in 1955 — “the year Disneyland opened and …

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Walter Ulloa, media mogul and prolific art collector who elevated Latino communities, dies at 74

Growing up in Brawley, Calif., in the ’50s and ’60s — then a farmland sprawl of alfalfa, sugar beet, lettuce and sweet corn crops — Walter Francis Ulloa was an athletic kid. “He went from the early days of broadcasting to digital media, a different beast — it’s amazing what he accomplished starting with nothing but his mind.” Ulloa was …

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LA Plaza's 'L.A. Memo' unearths hidden gems by Chicano artists

The Chicano Moratorium was a 'catalytic moment' for L.A. art

It was a day that began with exuberance and then exploded in violence. The Chicano Moratorium, one former marcher said, “was a catalytic moment.” Judy Baca, then 23, was working as a roving art teacher for the Department of Recreation and Parks, holding workshops at Eastside community centers. The Moratorium “was a catalytic moment,” says Rita Gonzalez, a co-curator of …