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RIVERSIDE, Calif. — A young woman with a ponytail leaned in to take a closer look at “Dreamers,” an oil painting by Rosy Cortez. “Oh, that’s interesting,” the woman mused to her companion. Nearby, a ...

On a Monday morning in May 2015, artist David Avalos stood on the stage of a packed auditorium at the Getty Center in Los Angeles. He described a day in 1977 when white supremacist and former KKK ...

Woman! Life! Freedom!, the current exhibition at Leon Gallery, tells a story about women in Iran who chose life or death consequences to protest strict hijab laws after the death of arrested dissenter ...

RIVERSIDE, Calif. – As a child, Cheech Marin loved collecting objects – baseball cards, stamps, marbles – and then organizing them obsessively. “I had a mania for codifying them and putting them in ...

Someone far wiser than me once said, “We’re burying too many good people lately.” The end of November and beginning of December were devastating to the art world, because we lost two of the Chicano ...

Cheech Marin is part of the comedy duo Cheech and Chong. He's also an art collector and just opened his own museum in Riverside, Calif. It's no joke. NPR's Mandalit del Barco attended the opening of ...

Walking through the "Hecho en Colorado" exhibit at El Pueblo History Museum is like cruising in a lowrider through the lives of Mexican-Americans in the U.S., and discovering the diversity of a group ...

Ernesto Palomino, who grew up in southwest Fresno and became a nationally recognized artist, musician, educator, and activist for Chicano civil rights, died Oct. 26 in Fresno. He was 89. A former Art ...

The Cheech Marin Center for Chicano Art & Culture in downtown Riverside will open to the public next week, featuring nearly 500 works of art, including paintings, drawings, sculptures and other ...