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Welcome to the Ooops I Forgot to Write the Newsletter edition of Essential Arts. I’m L.A. Times arts editor
Craig Nakano filling in for columnist
Carolina A. Miranda, who as you’ll see has been immersing herself in architectural solutions for people who are unhoused. This week has been bizzz-eee as California kicked its reopening into a higher gear, so there’s much to share. I’m sitting down to write at an hour when I’m usually in a seismic snore. My 2-year-old is asleep, the coffee is hot, the contact lenses are out and the glasses are on. Let’s do this.
For Agnes Pelton, painting was a profound means for contemplation. Hers and ours.
Take “Messengers,” which centers on a luminous, vase-like translucent vessel floating in a dusky sky above a stylized, silhouetted mountain range. A light blue orb rises behind the mountains and before a pale wash of color, which steadily climbs to become a deep purple plane. Eight soft violet lights glow along the upper edge above six bright, golden palm fronds draped across the vessel’s top.
The painting is among the finest in “Agnes Pelton: Desert Transcendentalist,” a lovely exhibition at the Palm Springs Art Museum. It dates from 1932, amid the most productive period of the artist’s more than four-decade career.
Judge Clears Path for Marilyn Monroe Statue Placement in Palm Springs
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Despite objections and a lawsuit from concerned citizens, the installation for a piece inspired by The Seven Year Itch is now cleared for Museum Way.
Forever Marilyn has a new temporary home.
On Friday, a Riverside County judge ruled that a 26-foot, 30,000-pound statue called Forever Marilyn has a clear path to installation on Museum Way in Palm Springs. The statue s location had been the subject of controversy in the desert community where its planned placement will find it standing outside the Palm Springs Art Museum on a street that was previously open to vehicle traffic. A group of concerned citizens a collection going by the name Committee to Relocate Marilyn raised more than $63,000 on GoFundMe and used it to fund a lawsuit to block the installation.
Gelfand was entertainment manager to icons such as Bob Dylan and Neil Diamond. He served as president of the Palm Springs Art Museum and Temple Isaiah.
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