An influential and rare permanent space dedicated to prolific Chicano art and culture –possibly the nation’s first and largest permanent collection of Mexican American Art, museum officials say – ...

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, ...

A conversation with Cheech Marin and his art permanently at “The Cheech” in Riverside. Lillian Vasquez talks with art collector, actor and comedian Cheech Marin as they look back at the opening of The ...

Chicano Prints from the Smithsonian American Art Museum,” makes its West Coast debut at The Huntington’s Marylou and George Boone Gallery from Nov. 16 to March 2. Curated by E. Carmen Ramos, forming ...

Follow Cheech Marin's journey from comedy icon to Chicano art advocate. The Cheech Marin Center for Chicano Art & Culture of the Riverside Art Museum showcases the actor's collection of more than 700 ...

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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 ...

Before his death in 2020, eminent Chicano historian Juan Gómez-Quiñones packed decades of Mexican American history into the garage and shed of the Pacific Palisades home he’d lived in for half a ...

It was 54 years ago, on Aug. 29, 1970, when we marched for justice at the Chicano Moratorium in Los Angeles. It was 122 years after the end of the U.S.- Mexico War, and an estimated 40,000 Chicano/as ...

An image of the El Alacrán Newsletter at UT Arlington from 1972. The newsletter provided a voice for the Chicano community on campus. Courtesy UTA Association of Mexican-American Students Records, ...