Discussing comedy is famously likened to the process of dissecting a frog. The frog dies, and so dies the humor. But if that is the case for some humor, Chicano and Latin humor are exceptions, for all ...

Cheech Marin can’t help but crack wise about his decades-old habit of acquiring art. “Unfortunately, it’s a mania,” he says. “It’s an addiction: My name is Cheech, and I’m an art collector.” ...

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, ...

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 ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. The research material of Tomás Ybarra-Frausto, measures 33.1 linear feet and 1.27 GB and dates from 1965-2004. The collection, amassed throughout ...

The actor and cannabis advocate’s collection of works by Mexican-American artists is the centerpiece of a new museum, opening June 18. By Gary Baum Senior Writer Cheech Marin — who gained lasting fame ...

The Museum of Latin American Art in Long Beach has been like the downtrodden stepchild of Southern California’s glamorous museum family -- often ignored by critics, overlooked by art elites and forced ...

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 ...

BEAVERTON, Ore. (KOIN) — At the end of a school day at Beaverton High, a group of students gather and begin shaking cans of spray paint. They’re here at the bi-weekly, no-credit class to learn how to ...

More than 15 years ago, local Chicano artist and poet Dougie Padilla talked with then-director of the Minneapolis Institute of Art, Evan Maurer, about hiring a curator of Latin American art. Padilla ...