THE NEW YORK TIMES
Show Us Your Walls
By Michael Walker
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| The actor and comedian Cheech Marin with “Una Tarde en Meoqui,” by the artist Wayne Alaniz Healy. Credit Monica Almeida/The New York Times |
LOS ANGELES---Cheech Marin gestures affectionately at a canvas hanging in the kitchen of his hilltop home here in Pacific Palisades. The multi-hyphenate actor, musician, author and founding member of the cannabis-infused Cheech & Chong is loath to cite favorites in his extensive collection of Chicano art but confesses a soft spot for
Wayne Alaniz Healy’s “
Una Tarde en Meoqui” (“One Afternoon in Meoqui”). “That’s Norman Rockwell, where I come from — if Rockwell were a Chicano,” Mr. Marin said. In May, Riverside, the Los Angeles suburb, agreed to convert a former public library into the
Cheech Marin Museum of Chicano Art, Culture & Industry, currently in the early stages of fund-raising, which would display works from his collection alongside new paintings and sculpture. [
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