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 …
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 …
Greetings from the Bay Area, where I’m marinating in pisco punch and cool temperatures. This includes one of painter Judithe Hernández’s original preparatory drawings for “Recuerdos de Ayer, Sueños de Mañana,” the downtown mural she created to mark L.A.’s bicentennial. Also on view is a guerrilla music video that Valdez created to accompany Devo’s “Whip It.” In it, figures in …
