Zachary Roman tours the Cheech Marin Center for Chicano Art & Culture with TODEC, an educational group for children of Coachella Valley farmworkers. (Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times) In 2022, the ...

Richard "Cheech" Marin, of the comedy duo Cheech and Chong, is not only renowned for stoner comedies — he's also an aficionado of Chicano art, which he started collecting around 1985. "It's an ...

In 2017, the Riverside Art Museum presented a touring exhibition of works on paper from the private collection of actor and comedian Cheech Marin. The show may have been small, but it was a smash, ...

RIVERSIDE, Calif. (KABC) -- The museum that now houses the largest collection of Chicano art in the world officially opened its doors, and in true legendary fashion - the grand opening was done in ...

There’s a hole cut into the middle of the Cheech Marin Center for Chicano Art & Culture in Riverside, California. Built inside a former library, the new museum made the unconventional decision to ...

RIVERSIDE, Calif. (KABC) -- The Cheech Marin Center for Chicano Art & Culture is finally ready to open its doors to the public. The museum will house the largest collection of Chicano art in the world ...

For an art collector whose name is on an $11 million museum, Cheech Marin is not one for formality. As we pull up chairs for a conversation inside the main gallery, he tells me, “Pull up a stump, rest ...

The Cheech Marin Center for Chicano Art & Culture in downtown Riverside will open to the public next week, featuring nearly 500 works of art, including paintings, drawings, sculptures and other ...

In 2022, the iconic L.A. comedian Cheech Marin opened an art museum with the hope of inspiring a Chicano art renaissance. "I looked around and said, 'This could be the next big art town' — because the ...