Jackson Grove, Katerina McCrimmon, and Rodney Thompson in the First National Touring Company of Funny Girl (Photo Matthew Murphy for MurphyMade, CTG)
Over Presidents’ Day Weekend, February 15 through 19 Art Palm Springs will once again bring galleries and artists from around the globe to the Palm Springs Convention Center. The event will kick off on February 15 with a gala Black Card Opening night party where celebrities, art aficionados, and glitterati of the art world will premiere the exhibitions. Visitors throughout the four days will… Read More
Celebrate Presidents Day weekend and fall in love with art on Valentine’s Day at the Third Annual Palm Springs Fine Art Fair. Quickly establishing itself as one of Southern California’s cultural highlights, the fair is attracting respected dealers and collectors to this bucolic desert hideaway. Showcasing 60 plus renowned galleries from around the world, and 2,500 important works, the fair offers a rare opportunity… Read More
Intersect Palm Springs returns to the desert for another great year of exhibitions, talks, curated display spaces, and artistic appreciation.The art fair boasts a long list of talks from artists from across the world. German sculptor Larry Kagan will discuss his transformative method of utilizing light within his sculptures to create additional forms made entirely of shadow. French artist Carole Chaix will comment on… Read More
Palm Springs has been described as “a sparkling arts mecca” and an “art oasis in the desert.” The city has evolved into a vibrant arts and cultural destination and it will host the 2015 edition of the Palm Springs Fine Art Fair this month. There will be an Opening Night Preview on February 12 promising a glamorous night of art, wine and hearty hors… Read More
Architect Albert Frey (1903 – 1988) was one of the most influential architects in the world. Frey’s style of modernist architecture, centered in Palm Springs, is now known as “desert modernism.” His mid-century contributions and a few other notable architects are partly credited with making Palm Springs the destination it is today. In celebrating Frey’s life and work, the Palm Springs Art Museum created… Read More
DTLA restaurant LA Cha Cha Chá is the sister spot of Terraza Cha Cha Chá in Mexico City, with a similar mid-century modern, Acapulco, and Palm Springs-inspired space. The indoor-outdoor space with West-facing views of DTLA feels like a lush garden, albeit one with hip mid-century modern furnishings. The menu is refreshingly uncomplicated yet inventive with a round-up of botanas, platos principales… Read More
Beloved icon Diane Keaton is back on the big screen starring in a new comedy Mack & Rita that hits theaters August 11. Mack & Rita features Elizabeth Lail (You) as Mack, a 30-year-old struggling author who feels like she is an older woman trapped in the body of a young girl. Everything her contemporaries enjoy, she finds overwhelming and tiresome. While at her… Read More
Christopher Nolan’s latest movie, Tenet, was steeped in mystery and uncertainty long before the coronavirus threw the entire entertainment industry into turmoil. The highly anticipated Warner Bros. movie had been set as the studio’s summer tentpole with a July 17 premiere and after multiple delays, it will now debut in 70 countries around the world on Aug. 26. The U.S. will have to wait until Labor… Read More
An online exhibit of the photographs of Theo Westenberger is now on view at the Autry Museum of the American West. With and interest in architecture, the Richard Neutra house in La Canada-Flintridge that she grew up in was one of her first artistic subjects. Working in NYC Westenberger became the first woman to shoot covers for Newsweek and Sports Illustrated, at a time when… Read More
The manicured life of retired Republican actor-turned-politician Lyman and his impeccable wife Polly is upended when relatives arrive at their Palm Springs home for Christmas — including politically liberal daughter Brooke who’s about to publish a tell-all memoir. Sound familiar? Head to Topanga Canyon for Jon Robin Baitz’s Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award nominated play Other Desert Cities opening July 8 at Will Geer’s Theatricum Botanicum. Theatricum’s production will… Read More
