Cheech Marin isn’t just a comedian, movie star and ’80s-era pot icon. He’s also one of the most notable collectors of Chicano art in the world today. Two things attest to this: his upcoming museum in ...

7:27 p.m. Jan. 3, 2025: A previous version of this story stated Carlos Almaraz persuaded UC Irvine to host a Los Four gallery show. It was actually Gilbert Lujan. Beto de la Rocha doesn’t notice the ...

The art education of comedian Cheech Marin began at a much younger age than most of us. It came thanks to a group of his academically minded cousins, one of whom eventually went on to Harvard ...

MESA — Cheech Marin has played a stoner and been half of the Cheech and Chong comedy team, an actor and musician. Add to that list art collector. Major art collector. "My goal is to promote Chicano ...

Papel Chicano Dos: Works on Paper from the Cheech Marin Collection, presents 65 artworks by 24 established and early-career artists whose work demonstrates a myriad of techniques from watercolor and ...

If you’ve been wanting to go deeper into Chicano resistance history, now is your chance. Over the last several decades, Chicano artists have used printmaking to reclaim cultural identity, express ...

FORT WORTH, Texas — In a February 1970 column for the Los Angeles Times, the journalist and activist Ruben Salazar wrote, “A Chicano is a Mexican-American with a non-Anglo image of himself.” It’s ...

The work of more than 50 multidisciplinary North Texas artists is featured in the “Chicano” art exhibition at the Art on Main gallery. A myriad of Chicano art is on display at an East Dallas art ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Beto de la Rocha, working on a painting of his sister Carola's two pups, Luna and Miel, last fall in Los Angeles. (Allen J.

The art education of comedian Cheech Marin began at a much younger age than most of us. It came thanks to a group of his academically minded cousins, one of whom eventually went on to Harvard ...

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 ...