For many, Cheech Marin is a household name. The comedian and actor is best known as part of the countercultural duo Cheech and Chong, but he’s also an avid collector of Chicano art and opened the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.” ...

Actor and comedian Richard “Cheech” Marin is set to speak at the opening ceremony of the “El Noroeste” exhibit at the Tacoma Art Museum this Saturday. Marin, commonly known for being one half of the ...

Sitting in the sun room of his home in Oak Park Heights, his dog Ruby napping nearby, Jimmy Longoria recalled the moment he had a chance encounter with famed Mexican artist Rufino Tamayo. Longoria was ...

César A. Martínez says he does not have a natural ability as an artist. “I was never a prodigy or anything. I liked to paint and draw when I was a kid, but was I good at it? No,” said Martínez, 80.

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 ...

Actor and Chicano art collector Cheech Marin stands with the recently unveiled "Meet Me At the Cheech" statue by Ignacio Gómez. (all photos by Carlos Puma, courtesy the Riverside Art Museum and the ...

For many, Cheech Marin is a household name. The comedian and actor is best known as part of the countercultural duo Cheech and Chong, but he’s also an avid collector of Chicano art and opened the ...