Joshua Tree National Park Art Exposition is an annual, month-long festival of art celebrating the park’s natural beauty and cultural history.
Culture Keeper
Pete Salcido's Flat Black Art Supply is leading the Coachella Valley's urban art movement.
He once “bombed” or scrawled his name on freeway overpasses, but now Pete Salcido is an entrepreneur with an art retail store at Westfield Palm Desert.
The Mall of Doing
Flat Black art supply and Westfield Palm Desert use hands-on art experiences to attract visitors of all ages.
Flat Black art supply and Westfield Palm Desert have created a hands-on, all-ages artmaking weekly workshop to give a whole new reason to go to the mall.
New Life for Ancient Wonders
Alberto Acosta wants to bring a new museum to the desert focused on the origins of life, ancient civilizations, and connections to the cosmos.
Alberto Acosta wants to bring his Museum of Ancient Wonders to the desert focused on the origins of life, ancient civilizations, and cosmos connections.
10 Things to Notice When Touring the Walker Guest House
Architect Paul Rudolph made a big statement with a little jewel of a home nestled behind the Kimpton Rowan Hotel in Palm Springs.
Tucked into a below-ground open space behind the Kimpton Rowan Palm Springs Hotel, the Walker Guest House is open for tours.
The Durable Ephemeral
Since 1989, Noah Purifoy’s distinctive assemblage art has influenced the desert — and been shaped by it in return.
Since 1989, the Noah Purifoy Outdoor Desert Art Museum’s distinctive assemblage art has influenced the desert — and been shaped by it in return.
Getting Hooked
CREATE Center for the Arts contributes to national crochet mural project honoring historic female activists and pioneers.
Community organizing and crochet might seem an odd pairing at first, but there are similarities. Both involve small actions multiplied over time into complex systems. Both aim to improve quality of life. And both are satisfying when performed in a group. The artist Agata Oleksiak (known professionally as Olek) gained widespread attention in 2003 when she began using crochet as
Desert Experiment
Desert X 2019, launching Feb. 9, asks whether nature can withstand development, even as the show generates cultural tourism that feeds the valley’s economy.
Desert X 2019, launching Feb. 9, asks whether nature can withstand development, even as the show generates cultural tourism that feeds the valley’s economy.
In Sync
Desert X Parallel Projects showcase local artists and attractions from Joshua Tree to Pinyon Pines.
Some of this year’s Parallel Projects address the same themes as Desert X — the environment, in particular — but from a first-person perspective.
Future Perfect
An out-of-this-world design exhibition puts a Space Age spin on Modernism Week.
An out-of-this-world design exhibition, “Artifacts of the Future: Design in the Space Age, 1957-1972,” puts a new spin on Modernism Week.