While the Bowers Museum is ensnared in allegations of misconduct involving their apparent acquisition of illicit artifacts, Muzeo, the relatively new museum in Anaheim, is showing us what the Bowers could have been had it not veered into Asian mega-shows.
The curators at the Bowers, for the most part, have run away from Latino culture. But the folks at Muzeo appear to be embracing it. According to the O.C. Register, “Some of the best of Cheech’s stash is coming to Anaheim’s Muzeo.”
Actor and art collector Cheech Marin is displaying almost 100 of the drawings and pastels by Chicano artists. A 5,000-square-foot interactive exhibit featuring art, video, music and historical information will accompany the mixed-media works on paper.
The show opens Sunday and runs through April 13.
The exhibit comes on the heels of Marin’s traveling show of paintings, “Chicano Visions,” which attracted crowds during its 12-city national museum tour from 2001 through last year.
The current show, “Papel Chicano”
Art,
You are so boring and transparent with your never ending racist pro Latino bias, that you cannot be taken seriously.
that’s a tough choice
cheech or egyptian mummies???? hmmmmhhh
“I agree with Anon #2….Why does Bowers waste their time with junk from the British museum when they could have promoted the guy who sings delightful Chicano classics such as:
Elmo Pimp song, Hey Masterbater, Mexican Thong song, Mexican American, The Reefer song and Up in Smoke! Google them, enjoy these lyrical masterpieces and then write the Bowers Board and demand that they bring this show to Santa Ana so our ninos can enjoy it as well! Odale carnal!!!”
I agree! Cheech is the voice of the Chicano people.
I agree with both #2 & #3.
On or about 1979 I was producing laser effect show with Laser Media Inc. for “Cheech & Chong’s Next Movie”.
In the end, during the celebration party, Cheech supply ample of the powder cocaine fore everyone on the set.
Big mountain of the white powder on the table for anyone to walk to it with his rolled 20ty and snore.
We should ask Cheech to provide same party for the Bowers Board.
Poster 4,
1979? Give me a break, in 1979 Tim Whitacre still had hair on his head!
Marin has moved on from those days. You ought to as well…
#4. You obviously haven’t put down your crack pipe. You sound way too much like cuckoo Stanley. Go beat up your wife and get off the blog.
“Marin has moved on from those days.”
How do you know, Art?
“You obviously haven’t put down your crack pipe.”
#6, You do not use “crack pipe” with powder cocaine, Sean Mill.
Poster 7,
For the past decade, Cheech Marin has been an actor with a mission: ”I was looking to do anything that didn’t have a big joint in it.” Today, at 50, the 1970s pothead idol is more likely to be seen going around with a set of golf clubs — and not just because he plays Kevin Costner’s faithful caddy in Tin Cup. After dissolving his partnership with Tommy Chong in 1985, he ran from the reefer fog of such Cheech and Chong movies as Up in Smoke. In fact, the man whose records parents once banned from the house got so clean that he found himself a children’s entertainer, turning out the album My Name is Cheech the School Bus Driver and providing the voice of a hyena in The Lion King.
A chance meeting with Robert Rodriguez kept Marin from a fate worse than Disney. The young director gave him a small role in last year’s Desperado, then three outrageous cameos (one as a ribald strip-club barker) in From Dusk Till Dawn. Ron Shelton hesitated before casting Marin in Tin Cup ”because he hadn’t done that many movies playing anything other than Cheech,” explains the director, who discovered Marin to be a perfect foil for his stars. ”No actor standing next to him can be pompous or arch.”
Perhaps the easiest Tin Cup costar for Marin to keep in line was Don Johnson — a cohort he had caroused with 20 years before. ”We’d hung out a little bit in the early bachelor-on-the-loose days,” Marin says. ”We found ourselves chasing the same women.” And their bond today? ”We hate the same people,” he says, laughing. Johnson swiftly offered his kindred spirit a sidekick role on his then-brewing CBS cop drama, Nash Bridges. Its success as a mid-season replacement last winter prompted Marin to move his second wife, artist Patti Heid, and two of his three children to San Francisco this summer, where the CBS series shoots. While packing, the legendary party animal was also preparing for his 50th birthday on July 13. How did he plan to celebrate? ”I don’t know,” he says. ”Get a prostate exam.”
http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,293789,00.html
OK Sean. Put down your meth pipe. #4 is either crazy or high on crack, meth, pot, heroin, or any other drug you want to believe causes him to sound like Stanley. He should still get off the blog.
Nice try Art,
You can Google all you need on the web especially positive PR.
Fortunately, I personally know Cheech.
What Anaheim residents don’t even get one free day at their Museum?