From the roof over your head to the packaging of your favorite skin cream, design matters more today than ever. It captures our attention, energizes our spirit, and inspires us to act (usually with a thoughtful purchase or a bright twist on the way we live).
Galleries – California at Mid-Century
Contemporary artists tap into the ideals and aesthetics of a simpler time
From Palm Desert to Paris, the art of postwar Southern California has enjoyed unprecedented attention in the past two years. Bursting with color and invention, the sleek L.A. style of 50 years ago has been celebrated in Birth of the Cool: California Art, Design, and Culture at Orange County Museum of Art in Newport Beach, SoCal: Southern California Art of the 1960s and 70s from LACMA’s Permanent Collection (through March 30) in Los Angeles, and Los Angeles 1955-1985: The Birth of An Artistic Capital at Centre Pompidou in Paris.
Editor’s Letter
Roll Out the Red Carpet
When you hear “Lights, camera, action!” in the desert, you know it’s January. You know it’s high time for the Palm Springs International Film Festival (Jan. 3-14), the area’s biggest and most glamorous nongolf event.
Intelligencer — Fired Up
Imago opens a new space to showcase fine art glass
Imago opens a new space to showcase fine art glass
Intelligencer — Cuban Irony In Riverside
Cuban painter Pedro Álvarez.
Cuban painter Pedro Álvarez.
Intelligencer — How To Buy Art
Here's everything you need to know.
Here’s everything you need to know on buying art.
Maverick Vision
How a wildly successful Texas oilman amassed one of the Southwest's most important Modern sculpture collections and gave overnight credibility to a fledgling museum in Palm Springs.
How a wildly successful Texas oilman amassed one of the Southwest’s most important Modern sculpture collections and gave overnight credibility to a fledgling museum in Palm Springs.
From The Editor — The Quality Factor
From Pam Springs Art Museum to the High Desert, fresh thinking is renewing interest in the local art scene.
From Pam Springs Art Museum to the High Desert, fresh thinking is renewing interest in the local art scene.
Galleries — Swan Song for a Glass Virtuoso
William Morris says he has blown his last glass sculpture
An overview of November happenings at Imago Galleries, Modern Masters Fine Art, Edenhurst Gallery, and The Hart Gallery.
Editor’s Letter
How to Land (and Stay) on the A-List
You may be the center of attention in every gala ballroom you enter or have so much money and power that you allow your social graces to fall by the wayside. Or perhaps you attend only one or two formal events during the season and feel as if you teeter on the fringes of “society.”