Palm Springs Art Museum will have a new look and new exhibits when it reopens Brian Blueskye, Palm Springs Desert Sun
A classic car soon will be suspended over a body of water will soon be sited in front of the Palm Springs Art Museum if all goes according to plan.
Gonzalo Lebrija s History of Suspended Time: Monument for the Impossible is based on a video captured by the Mexico-based artist of the moment just before the car broke through a lake s surface. Museum leadership hopes to have it installed on the southeast corner of Museum Drive and Museum Way by the end of January.
Born into a German Jewish family, Hesse was about three years old when her parents left their extended family behind and fled the Nazi regime, arriving in New York City in 1939. Her parents divorced in 1945, and her mother committed suicide a year later. Despite her traumatic and tragic early life, Hesse was an accomplished student. As an adolescent, she already wanted to pursue art, and she attended the School of Industrial Art (now the High School of Art and Design). She went on to study at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn (from September 1952 to December 1953), Cooper Union (1954–57), and the School of Art and Architecture at Yale University (B.F.A., 1959), where she studied with artist Josef Albers. After she graduated, Hesse returned to New York City and supported her art by working as a pattern designer for a textile company. In 1961 Hesse exhibited her work for the first time in a show titled “Drawings: Three Young Americans” at the John Heller Gallery. She met and marrie
How Edward Hopper became an artist for the pandemic age Why we are all Nighthawks in the age of Covid.
Edward Hopper (American, 1882-1967), Nighthawks, 1942 A woman and two men are seated at the bar in a diner. We can see from the lights outside and inside that it is night. Each one has a cup of coffee. The woman and one of the men sit close together, though, looking at them, it’s impossible to say whether they know each other or whether they just met. One man sits alone. The man behind the bar is fussing, as men working in bars and diners do, with something.
A selection of over 100 photos by the group are on view in a survey at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York called Working Together: The Photographers of the Kamoinge Workshop, which runs until 28 March.
“The 1960s and 1970s were a time of social unrest, as ours is at this point,” said Whitney curator Carrie Springer (this traveling exhibition from the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts is curated by Sarah Eckhardt)
“Looking at how they centered their artwork on depicting the community as they experienced it is inspiring, at a time like now,” said Springer. “Their self-organizing work in their community represents an individual and collective truth, one which is focused on the power art can have in communities.”
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Opening Reception: Friday, 12 February, 2021
Baldwin Gallery is pleased to present our seventh show of new work by acclaimed contemporary artist Enrique Martínez Celaya. Martínez Celaya creates paintings, sculpture, photography, poetry, and prose, that directly engage with the interior life, and delve into his background in literature, philosophy, science, and religion. His imagery is steeped in his refugee childhood, his background in physics, and a deeply personal dream-state visual iconography: using figures in emotive landscapes to address the universalities of the human experience with time, memory, identity, and displacement.
Enrique Martínez Celaya was born in Palos, Cuba in 1964 but was relocated with his family when he was eight years old to Spain. Martínez Celaya came to the United States in 1982 as a physics student and received a BS in applied physics from Cornell University and an MS in quantum electronics from the University of California, Berkele