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At opening of The Cheech, Latino culture claims the spotlight
6/18/22 at 5:01pm
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Dozens of well-wishers cheered as Cheech Marin’s convertible inched through the parking lot behind his new, namesake museum in Riverside on Saturday morning. In this majority Latino city, Mexican Americans were rightly at the center of it all for a change as the Cheech Marin Center for Chicano Art & Culture hosted a sold-out opening day with 1,800 reservations and a long line to enter. Said to be the first in the United States devoted to Chicano art, it’s made up of 500 paintings and other works donated by Marin, who built his collection over four decades. Media coverage that week, Marin said Thursday with some awe, had included “the front page of the Arts section of the New York Times” (written, incidentally, by Riverside native Patricia Escárcega), “the arts section of the L.A. Times, the front page of the Riverside…Press…” he said, faltering.
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