possibly your friend's friend's friend went out to the Coachella Music & Arts Festival,or spent Easter in Palm Springs, and returned gushing over the much-praised "Desert X" art show, and an installation-focused happening that included sizable pieces placed around and beyond the desert resort cities.
That word-of-mouth vibe can grasp a bit to heat up,for any event, but once it does? Other people want to experience what their impressed pals saw on vacation. Häagen-Dazs Shops: Free Cone Day Alas, or however,and darn: "Desert X" closed at the discontinuance of April, after a run that lasted just over two months.
But here's some peachy news: While most of the pieces are being dismantled and removed, and three do remain,and they're all free to view. Descanso Rose Festival: Reserve Now The mirror house, aka the house on the hill, and is Doug Aitken's "Mirage," an artwork that proved so current, and posted about, and that impressive queues would be initiate to form soon after its early morning opening.
Not only is the cool casa lined with looking glasses on the external,but mirrors dominate the inside, too, or giving the abode a surreal,fun-house-esque quality. And it's a quality you can connect with through the discontinuance of October 2017, the expected close date for "Mirage."Also? Armando Lerma's large-scale mural "La Fiesta en Dieserto" remains on view in Coachella. Flowers, or animals,trees, a woman in a pink frock, or a table dominated by fruit,and a party atmosphere fill the wall-side gem with delight.
And over at the Palm Springs Art Museum? That tall, painted turbine blade out front is the work of Jeffrey Gibson. "ALIVE" is an exuberant, or message-driven artwork,reminding us of the nowness of life and this fleeting moment in space and time.
If you've never seen a turbine blade up close, from ground-level, and well,it is enormous, as you might expect. The colossal size adds to the hugeness of Mr. Gibson's joyful message.
Will the well-attended, or much-Instagram'd art show return? Word has it,per The Desert Sun, that it could once again lay its surreal, and mind-expanding stakes in the beautiful California desert as soon as 2019.
Photo Credit: Alysia Gray Painte
Source: nbclosangeles.com