Palm Springs Art Museum Archives

February 6, 2016

Art Vitam, Bauhaus, Dawson Cole Fine Art, Etherton Gallery, Gordon Watkinson, Heather James Fine Art, Jadikan, Laurence Jones, Palm Springs, Palm Springs Art Museum, Palm Springs Fine Art Fair, Ralph Gibson, Rebecca Hossack Art Gallery, Throckmorton Fine Art, Tom Betts

PSFAF 2016

February 6, 2016

Laurence Jones, Black Palms, 2016; mixed media on linen, 57 1/8 x 72 7/8 inches; image courtesy of Rebecca Hossack Art Gallery and Palm Springs Fine Art Fair

The Palm Springs Fine Art Fair will open its fifth edition on February 12, 2016. As in previous years, PSFAF coincides with Modernism Week and a Presidential visit to Sunnylands, making the Coachella Valley a hot ticket for the holiday weekend. More than 14,000 visitors are expected for the West Coast’s best art fair, which continues through February 14.

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September 26, 2015

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Andreas Gursky, Artipelag, Céleste Boursier-Mougenot, environmental art, LACMA, Los Angeles, Ólafur Elíasson, Palais de Tokyo, Palm Springs, Palm Springs Art Museum, Paris, photo, Random International, Richard Misrach, Sweden

Reflections on Water

September 26, 2015 1 Comment

A survey of the Stockholm archipelago; photo by Magnus Laupa for The New York Times

Recently, we have been enamored with landscapes and water. Here’s a thematic roundup with two exhibitions that we’re sorry to have missed, and two that we plan to see soon.

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February 24, 2015

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Palm Springs Fine Art Fair Recap

February 24, 2015 2 Comments

A visitor photographs works by Tom Betts at the Palm Springs Fine Art Fair 2015; installation view of Dawson Cole Fine Art with works by Tom Betts, Donald Sultan, Richard MacDonald, and John Singer Sargent; photo © codylee.co

A visitor photographs paintings by Tom Betts at the Palm Springs Fine Art Fair 2015; installation view of Dawson Cole Fine Art with works by Tom Betts, Donald Sultan, Richard MacDonald, and John Singer Sargent; photo © codylee.co

We gave an overview of the Palm Springs Fine Art Fair last week. Since then the fair closed, the concurrent events of Modernism Week concluded, and Air Force One returned to Washington after the President’s long weekend in the desert. Here’s our recap of PSFAF.

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Palm Springs Fine Art Fair

February 11, 2015 2 Comments

Palm Springs Fine Art Fair 2015, image courtesy of PSFAF

The Palm Springs Fine Art Fair returns to the desert this week with an impressive selection of 66 modern and contemporary art galleries. In its fourth edition this year, the Palm Springs Fine Art Fair is already as large as Art Los Angeles Contemporary and seems ready to surpass the longer running LA Art Show as the premier West Coast art fair.

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November 8, 2014

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Palm Springs Art Museum, Architecture and Design Center

November 8, 2014 2 Comments

Palm Springs Art Museum, Architecture and Design Center; photograph by Daniel Chavkin, courtesy of Palm Springs Art Museum

This weekend, the Palm Springs Art Museum will open its new Architecture and Design Center in a restored mid-century modern building. The A+D Center is an important extension of the museum’s facilities as well as its exhibitions and programs.

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June 4, 2014

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Henry Moore

June 4, 2014

“The secret of life is to have a task, something you devote your entire life to, something you bring everything to, every minute of the day for the rest of your life. And the most important thing is, it must be something you cannot possibly do.”