Amazon Allegedly Cuts Ties with Cheech Marin Center for Chicano Art & Culture

 The artwork depicts an Amazon warehouse with flames beneath it. The lettering that surrounds the warehouse reads, “Burn them all down.”

Amazon has reportedly ended its financial support of the Cheech Marin Center for Chicano Art & Culture in Riverside, California. According to ARTNews , the multibillion-dollar company made its decision after it found out the institution included an artwork in ant exhibition that was critical of Amazon’s business strategy in the state.

The artwork in question is a triptych of screen prints by Toni Sanchez, a student at the University of California, that is part of the “Life Logistics” exhibition, which ran from January 7, 2023 to June 4, 2023. T

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