Palm Springs Art Museum
The Palm Springs Art Museum , which emerged from the Palm Springs Desert Museum in 1982 , is the regional museum for art, natural sciences and performing arts and the most important museum facility for the city of Palm Springs and the Coachella Valley in Riverside County in California , USA .
history
In 1938 the Palm Springs Desert Museum was established in what is now downtown Palm Springs. It dealt primarily with the representation of the Colorado desert in the southwest of the USA and the culture of the Indian population who lived here before contact with the Europeans, for example the Cahuilla . After the Second World War , the museum found a new location in a former military hospital . In 1952 a scientific open-air exhibition and a botanical garden were added to the museum .
In 1958, 930 m² of exhibition space was made available to the museum for the visual arts department and in 1962 the museum was given a lecture hall and additional rooms for exhibitions of contemporary art. In 1976 a third place was found for an expanded museum with 7000 m² and a hall with over 400 seats, the Annenberg Theater , which was enlarged by a grand piano in 1982. Since then the museum has been called the Palm Springs Art Museum . In autumn 2014 the museum dedicated its own "Architecture and Design Center" to the architectural style "Desert Modernism"; it opened on November 9, 2014 in the Edwards Harris Pavilion, a former subsidiary of Santa Fe Federal Savings & Loan.
Palm Springs Art Museum, Palm Desert Satellite
Since March 2012 the Palm Springs Art Museum has had a department in the neighboring city of Palm Desert . The opening exhibition was entitled: Rodin to Now - Modern Sculpture .
Exhibitions
- 2007: Enrique Chagoya : borderlandia .
- 2008: Julius Shulman and Jürgen Nogai : Palm Springs .
- 2009: Robert Mapplethorpe : Portraits .
- 2011: Steel and Shade: The Architecture of Donald Wexler .
- 2011/2012: Night and Day: The Paintings of Lockwood de Forest .
- 2011/2012: Andrew Wyeth in Perspective .
- 2012: Michael Petry : The Touch of the Oracle .
- 2012: Backyard Oasis: The Swimming Pool in Southern California 1945-1982 .
- 2013: Robert Rauschenberg at Gemini .
- 2013: Made in USA - From Abstract Expressionists to Color Field Painters .
- 2013: Roger Ballen Photography .
- 2013: California Dreaming: Thirty Years of Collecting .
- 2014/2015: A Grand Adventure: American Art of the West .
- 2015: Ai Weiwei's Circle of Animals / Zodiac Heads: Gold , designed based on the Chinese zodiac signs designed by Giuseppe Castiglione (1688–1766) for the old Yuanming Yuan summer palace near Beijing .
- 2015/2016: Reflections on Water .
- 2016: Bauhaus twenty - 21: An Ongoing Legacy. Photographs by Gordon Watkinson .
Exhibited works
- Apart IX : Figure made from metal blocks from 2002 by the British artist Antony Gormley .
literature
- Patricia Mastick Young: Desert Dream Fulfilled: The History of the Palm Springs Desert Museum . Palm Springs Desert Museum, Palm Springs CA 1983.
- Gordon Baldwin: Robert Mapplethorpe: Portraits . Palm Springs Art Museum, Palm Springs CA 2009, ISBN 978-0-9816743-1-5 .
- Lauren Weiss Brixler et al .: Steel and Shade: The Architecture of Donald Wexler . Kehrer, Heidelberg / Berlin 2011, in the museum: ISBN 978-0-9816743-4-6 .
- Daniell Cornell (Ed.): Backyard Oasis: The Swimming Pool in Southern California 1945–1982 . Prestel, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-7913-5176-6 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Springs Art Museum opens Architecture and Design Center ( Memento of the original from December 22, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Travel EXCLUSIV magazine website, accessed December 18, 2014.
- ^ The idyll glitters blue in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung on July 29, 2012, pages 42 and 43
Coordinates: 33 ° 49'27.1 " N , 116 ° 32'59.6" W.