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New photos of the recently-opened Cheech Marin Center for Chicano Art & Culture in Riverside, California, have just been published, showcasing the Page & Turnbull-led transformation from an outdated New Formalist public library building into an important home for Chicano art. Named for actor... View full entry
The Cheech Marin Center for Chicano Art & Culture of the Riverside Art Museum, California, has broken ground and will open in spring next year. [...] A public-private partnership between the Riverside Art Museum, the City of Riverside, and comedian Cheech Marin—one of the world’s foremost collectors of Chicano art—the center will be, as Marin says, the "center of Chicano art, not only painting, but sculpture, photography, and video arts." — The Construction Specifier
Interior rendering of The Cheech, view from the entrance. Nicknamed "The Cheech," the new art and culture center will find a home inside the transformed former public library building in Riverside, California. The adaptive-reuse conversion of this 1964 mid-century building is designed by Los... View full entry
A pioneer of the Chicano art movement that took root in the social and cultural upheavals of the 1960s and '70s, Magú, as he was universally known, was among the first U.S. artists of Mexican descent to establish an international career. — L.A. Times
