The Funny Face of Chicano Art

Actor Cheech Marin uses his celebrity muscle to champion an unrecognized school of Mexican-American artists.

Steven Biller Arts & Entertainment

Cheech Marin has since amassed more than 400 works of art and counting. “It’s something that’s very immediate and visceral when I choose artwork.”

Something to See Here

Actor Jim Carrey’s serial humor belies his artful quest to make sense of the world and affect people’s lives

Steven Biller Arts & Entertainment

Actor Jim Carrey’s serial humor belies his artful quest to make sense of the world and affect people’s lives

Editor's Letter January 2012

The Stars are Shining on Palm Springs

Steven Biller Arts & Entertainment

Sometimes, celebrities appear exactly as you expect when you meet them. And we meet many — especially when the Palm Springs International Film Festival (Jan. 5-16) draws the eyes of the entertainment industry.

Breaking the Surface

‘Backyard Oasis’ uses photography to show how the allure of Southern California swimming pools influenced America’s postwar ethos

Steven Biller Arts & Entertainment

The sexiest, most seductive art exhibition in Southern California delivers plenty of eye candy: beautiful bodies — many of them celebrities — luxuriating around swimming pools.

'Clinton Would Have Loved This'

A Rancho Mirage-based foundation advances the legacy and promotes the interests of a late New York School artist.

Steven Biller Arts & Entertainment

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.

Editor's Letter – December 2011

A Season for Entertaining

Steven Biller Real Estate

Shooting on location for Palm Springs Life sometimes goes like filming a movie. We often start somewhere in the middle of the story and sequence the final images when we lay out the magazine.

Editor's Letter

In Season About L.A. Art, Palm Springs Shines.

Steven Biller Arts & Entertainment

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 strategy in a way that would serve the community and brighten the desert institution’s star among the “constellation of museums in Southern California.”

Editor's Note

Thank You, Jackie Lee

Steven Biller Social Scene

The “Guardian Angel of the Desert” has gone, leaving us to carry on her singular mission: to continually help improve the lives of desert residents and organizations in need.

Editor's Letter October 2011

Look at us Now!

Steven Biller

Magazines redesign for many reasons: to modernize their look, to refine their content and accentuate new editorial features, and to make themselves more attractive to read. We’re hopeful the makeover we introduce this month accomplishes all of the above. The new format retains the popular departments and features that Palm Springs Life readers expect and adds a Style department, which

A Valley of Art

Look inside to see some of the desert’s world-class beauty

Steven Biller Arts & Entertainment

Free spirits and imaginative individualists have long reveled in the desert’s open spaces and minds. The qualities that draw artists also beckon those who appreciate their efforts.