The Palm Springs Art Museum has put together an impressive start to December with four quality lectures within the first two weeks of the month.
Here is a breakdown of each:
Meanwhile, Back at The (Sea) Ranch: An Iconic Community, 50 Years, 10 a.m. Dec. 3, Palm Springs Art Museum, Lecture Hall . Architect Doug Hudson will examine the history of the iconic Sea Ranch community on California’s Sonoma Coast, the evolution of its philosophy of “living lightly on the land,” and its changing architectural trends, social attitudes, and political processes. A visit to Hudson’s Old Las Palmas home will follow the lecture.
$15 Museum members, $20 nonmembers.
The Future is Glass, 5:30 p.m. Dec. 8, Palm Springs Art Museum, Annenberg Theater, free admission. Renowned glass artist Steve Klein will share the meaningful and exciting journey of studio glass as it reaches into the new millennium, exploring the development of its artists, techniques, materiality, innovation, and education. Presented to accompany the exhibition at Palm Springs Art Museum in Palm Desert, Glass for the New Millennium: Masterworks from the Kaplan-Ostergaard Collection.
Mondays @The Museum: Native Art History: From Baskets to Film, 10 a.m. Dec. 12, Palm Springs Art Museum, Annenberg Theater. Michael Hammond, PhD, director emeritus, Agua Caliente Cultural Museum, will explore the impact of western expansion on the Native population. Referencing the Go West: Art of the American Frontier exhibition, he will portray how Native artists have proliferated, through various artistic mediums, while maintaining traditional values. $15 per lecture or $100 for series – Museum members, $20 per lecture or $140 for the series – nonmembers.
The “Real” (and Reel) Monuments Men, the Gurlitt Cache, and the Continuing Challenges of Nazi Looted Art,6:30 p.m. Dec. 15, Palm Springs Art Museum, Annenberg Theater, free admission. Jonathan Petropoulos, John V. Croul, professor of European History, Claremont McKenna College, will discuss how two recent films, The Monuments Men and A Woman in Gold, and the sensational 2012 confiscation of the Gurlitt cache, have influenced the restitution of property to rightful owners.
Tickets can be purchased at the Annenberg Theater Box Office by calling 760-325-4490. Go to psmuseum.org to learn more.