The Cheech Marin Center Opens in Riverside, California Spotlighting Chicano Art

. The collection has been shown at more than 50 museums, including LACMA, the Smithsonian and San Francisco’s De Young — even though many arts institutions frown on exhibiting private collections, wary that the prestige of a museum show would unfairly boost potential secondary-market prices. “But my comeback was always ‘Well, I have this collection and you don’t,’ ” says Marin, contending that the same fine-art world had for decades overlooked, condescended to and marginalized Chicano artists.

The museum and its accompanying educational component intend to leverage Marin’s unrivaled collection to explore fundamental questions, including the divide between those who identify as Chicano and the generation who associate with the term “Latino.” “What we’re doing is weaving tales, curatorially, about the collection,” says artistic director María Esther Fernández.

Marin and Einar and Jamex de la Torre looking at the artists’ two-story artwork at The Cheech based on the Aztec earth goddess Coatlicue.On a weekday morning in late May, before leaving for an ADR session on the upcoming Bobby Farrelly comedywith a tour, from dining room to upstairs bathroom and master bedroom. Between ardent meditations on brush technique and museum-caliber hanging systems, he mused on his durable entertainment career as well as his intermittent periods of artwork deaccession .

Does it have anything about the grapes boycott that Cesar Chavez called for, as his Simpsons episode involved him taking Homer to a similar museum with such an installation?

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