WHITE CENTER — A painting of Jake Prendez and his son wearing black T-shirts and blue luchador masks adorns part of a gallery of his original Chicano art on a bubble gum pink wall inside the Nepantla ...
SAN ANTONIO — An exhibit at the Contemporary at Blue Star highlights the past, present and future of Chicano and Chicana culture, right down to its modernized name: “Xicanx: Dreamers + Changemakers.” ...
One of the first works in L.A. Memo: Chicana/o Art From 1972-1989 at LA Plaza de Cultura y Artes is “El Arte Chicano (Color)” (1974), a small, vibrant text painting by Roberto “Beto” de la Rocha ...
Richard “Cheech” Marin–the iconic comedian and actor–had for 30 years established himself as a preeminent collector of Chicano art by the time officials from the City of Riverside, California and the ...
Saturday was a red-letter day for the history of art in Southern California. On June 18, the Riverside Art Museum opened its Cheech Marin Center for Chicano Art and Culture in a handsomely renovated, ...
Comedian and collector Cheech has made a lifelong project of collecting and encouraging Chicano artists and found a home for his collection at the Cheech Marin Center for Chicano Art & Culture at the ...
As with so many cultural institutions, the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center has been closed more often than not in 2020; it finally reopened a few weeks ago after being shut down since March. But the ...
A conversation with Cheech Marin and his art permanently at “The Cheech” in Riverside. Lillian Vasquez talks with art collector, actor and comedian Cheech Marin as they look back at the opening of The ...
Saturday was a red-letter day for the history of art in Southern California. On June 18, the Riverside Art Museum opened its Cheech Marin Center for Chicano Art and Culture in a handsomely renovated, ...