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 …
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 …
