In 2022, the iconic L.A. comedian Cheech Marin opened an art museum with the hope of inspiring a Chicano art renaissance. "I looked around and said, 'This could be the next big art town' — because the ...

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The Cheech Marin Center for Chicano Art & Culture of the Riverside Art Museum has generated $29 million for the city of Riverside in its first two years, city officials said. The museum, commonly ...

More than 500 pieces from his personal collection now make up the Cheech Marin Center for Chicano Art and Culture in Riverside, Calif., which has two traveling shows. Michael Puente recently ...

Just months after California legalized recreational marijuana the state is giving stoner comedian Cheech Marin's Chicano art museum $9.7 million. It must be kismet. The money was rolled up in the $139 ...

Stoner comedy legend, actor and Chicano art curator collector Cheech Marin will be honored this year at the 38th annual Hispanic Heritage Awards. The Hispanic Heritage Foundation named Marin as a ...

Cheech Marin will be the first speaker in the seventh season of “Palm Springs Speaks,” an annual series of interviews benefiting the city’s public library that begins Tuesday evening at the Plaza ...

Julie Sharp is a digital producer at CBS Los Angeles. She is a South Bay native and majored in print journalism at Cal State University Long Beach. Julie previously reported for the Beach Reporter, ...

Zachary Roman tours the Cheech Marin Center for Chicano Art & Culture with TODEC, an educational group for children of Coachella Valley farmworkers. (Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times) In 2022, the ...

Actor and comedian Cheech Marin has long been a collector of Latino artwork. This past weekend, he cut the ribbon on a new museum: The Cheech... The Cheech Marin Center for Chicano Art & Culture opens ...

LOS ANGELES (KTLA) — The Cheech Marin Center for Chicano Art & Culture Of The Riverside Art Museum contains the nation’s first and largest permanent collection of Chicano art of the comedian, actor, ...