New Cheech Marin Museum Will House Legendary Comedian s Massive Chicano Art Collection
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Cheech Marin is one of the foremost collectors of Chicano art in the United States. The comedian, best known as one-half of Cheech & Chong, has a collection that’s so highly regarded that the city of Riverside, just outside Los Angeles, is set to open the Cheech Marin Center for Chicano Art, Culture & Industry of the Riverside Art Museum in the fall. Earlier this month the city council approved plans for the center, which will be located in a former library after a $13 million renovation.
Cheech Marin isn’t just a comedian, movie star and ’80s-era pot icon. He’s also one of the most notable collectors of Chicano art in the world today. Two things attest to this: his upcoming museum in Riverside, California officially called the Cheech Marin Center for Chicano Art, Culture & Industry, but already nicknamed The Cheech ; and his traveling show,
“I want to encourage everyone in Colorado to come and see it,” Marin says. “It’s a wonderful collection of works on paper by amazing Chicano artists. This is our second volume of it, and we’ve traveled all over the country and played over fifty museums with this collection. It’s unheard of a lot of museums don’t like showing private collections. But people just love it.”
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