The Cheech Marin Center for Chicano Art & Culture opened its doors to the public on Saturday, June 18, 2022 in Riverside, California. An influential and rare permanent space dedicated to prolific ...

RIVERSIDE, Calif. — A young woman with a ponytail leaned in to take a closer look at “Dreamers,” an oil painting by Rosy Cortez. “Oh, that’s interesting,” the woman mused to her companion. Nearby, a ...

The Cheech Marin Center for Chicano Art & Culture (photo Matt Stromberg/Hyperallergic) RIVERSIDE, CA — “This is the nuclear weapon we have always needed,” said artist Judithe Hernández on June 17 at ...

RIVERSIDE, Calif. – As a child, Cheech Marin loved collecting objects – baseball cards, stamps, marbles – and then organizing them obsessively. “I had a mania for codifying them and putting them in ...

On a Monday morning in May 2015, artist David Avalos stood on the stage of a packed auditorium at the Getty Center in Los Angeles. He described a day in 1977 when white supremacist and former KKK ...

The Cheech Marin Center for Chicano Art & Culture in downtown Riverside officially opened to the public Saturday, which Marin described as a "happy and humbling'' occasion, expressing optimism that ...

The Cheech Marin Center for Chicano Art & Culture in downtown Riverside will open to the public next week, featuring nearly 500 works of art, including paintings, drawings, sculptures and other ...

Cheech Marin is part of the comedy duo Cheech and Chong. He's also an art collector and just opened his own museum in Riverside, Calif. It's no joke. NPR's Mandalit del Barco attended the opening of ...

As the Cheech Marin Center for Chicano Art and Culture debuts, its founder hopes to inspire a renaissance in a region of California lacking public arts funding. By Patricia Escárcega RIVERSIDE, Calif.