Brandon Zech talks with actor, comedian, and art collector Cheech Marin about how he came to collect Chicano art, the Texas artists he's looking at today, and his museum, The Cheech, in Riverside, California.
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Texas in Riverside: “Cheech Collects” at the Cheech Marin Center for Chicano Art and Culture, Riverside, California
Ruben C. Cordova reviews the Cheech Marin collection and building, and compares it to the inaugural exhibition of Marin’s collection at the San Antonio Museum of Art in 2001.
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“The Cheech” Center for Chicano Art is Brilliantly Inaugurated by the de la Torre Brothers’ “Collidoscope”
Ruben C. Cordova writes about an exhibition by the de la Torre Brothers which debuted at the new Cheech Marin Center for Chicano Art & Culture, and is now on view at the Art Museum of South Texas.
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Cheech Marin Appearance at Art Museum of South Texas for “The Cheech”
by Glasstireby GlasstireThe new doc centers on Marin as an art collector. He will be in conversation after the screening.
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Cheech Marin Receives $9.7 Million Grant for Chicano Art Museum
by Brandon Zechby Brandon ZechRecently Cheech Marin received a $9.7 million grant from the state of California to go towards completing a museum building to house the actor and comedian’s collection of Chicano art. Named “The Cheech…
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Cheech Marin–actor, author, standup, and of course one-half of the legendary comedy duo Cheech and Chong–has long been an advocate and collector of Chicano art, and tonight in Lubbock he’ll…
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The second annual Houston Fine Art Fair opens to the public today at Reliant Center, exhibit hall C. Hoping to beat last year’s total of 10,500 visitors, the fair features…