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	'Clinton Would Have Loved This' Marilyn Pearl Loesberg paces with a phone to her ear. She’s on the line with an art dealer in New York, where she’s organizing two exhibitions for the late Abstract Expressionist Clinton Hill. Steven Biller
	Breaking the Surface The sexiest, most seductive art exhibition in Southern California delivers plenty of eye candy: beautiful bodies — many of them celebrities — luxuriating around swimming pools. Steven Biller
	Burning Off Water The desert has long exerted a powerful magnetism on artists. By 1900, painters seeking a fresh source of inspiration and a healthier climate came to the Palm Springs area to work en plein air and... Carol Cheh
	Burning Off Water - Jeff Lipschutz For the painter, sculptor, and writer Jeff Lipschutz, the desert is not so much an excursion or a dialectical canvas as it is seed material that informs his own DNA. Carol Cheh
	Burning Off Water - Jesse Reding Fleming For a long time, Jesse Reding Fleming had no interest in the desert; he thought of it as a “dead place.” Carol Cheh
	Burning Off Water - Nicole Antebi Nicole Antebi, who lives in Los Angeles and teaches in Monterey, uses a variety of media for projects that often take the form of multifaceted installations. Carol Cheh
	Editor's Letter Early in his tenure as executive director of Palm Springs Art Museum, Steve Nash spoke of renovating the interior, pursuing more compelling and important exhibitions, and sharpening its collection... Steven Biller
	Give Your Regards to Broadway The house lights dim, and a hush falls. The first notes of the overture break the silence and the journey begins, sweeping you along for the ride to fantasyland. Joan Page McKenna
	in the studio — The Storied Past Unlike tourists enamored by slick and shiny Las Vegas, Charlie Ciali clicked with the city’s lifeless side. Janice Kleinschmidt
	intelligencer Creative types converge and experiment on the High Desert; Creating an Art Economy; Palm Springs Art Museum Expands; The Annenberg Collection; and a New Art Fair for Palm Springs. Edited by Steven Biller
	Palm Springs on the Hudson After absorbing de Forest’s paintings, your eye naturally travels to the desert’s open places, looking not for impressive landmarks, but for the beauty of absence and the nothingness the... Ann Japenga