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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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How to have the best Sunday in L.A., according to Cheech Marin

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 …

Chicana feminist Judithe Hernández draws complex humanity at the Cheech

In a revealing video interview that accompanies her captivating 50-year survey at the Riverside Art Museum’s Cheech Marin Center for Chicano Art & Culture, artist Judithe Hernández recounts how she became the anomalous fifth member of Los Four, the groundbreaking L.A. art collective. An activist colleague and friend of Los Four’s Frank Romero, Beto de la Rocha, Gilbert “Magú” Luján …

Ofelia Valdez-Yeager, the fierce Latino arts fundraiser and “connector of people” who helped establish the Riverside Art Museum’s Cheech Marin Center for Chicano Art and Culture, and who made history by becoming the first Latina to serve on the local school board, died Sunday in the presence of her husband and their four children. “We knew right away after we …

Two exhibitions — at VPAM and the Cheech — put Chicanx bodies front and center

The most accessible and reliable material an artist has is their body. Two exhibitions currently on view in the Southland — “Teddy Sandoval and the Butch Gardens School of Art” at the Vincent Price Art Museum in Los Angeles and “Xican-a.o.x. Body” at the Cheech Marin Center for Chicano Art & Culture in Riverside — provide a groundbreaking look at …