Art and mid-century design in the Coachella Valley
Located in downtown Palm Springs, the Palm Springs Art Museum features collections of modern and contemporary art, glass, photography, architecture and design and recent and historic Native American art. Artists featured range from Chagall and Picasso to Warhol, Lichtenstein and Judd, together with Louise Bourgeois, Marina Abramović, Mona Hatoum, and Sarah Sze. The museum also holds temporary exhibitions on modern and contemporary artists and designers, and features two outdoor sculpture gardens. Its main building was designed in 1976 in the brutalist style to respond to the desert landscape and distant San Jacinto mountains. Today the museum also includes the Architecture and Design Center, Edward Harris Pavilion – an exemplar of the international modernist style, designed by E. Stewart Williams in 1960 as a bank – which stages architecture and design exhibitions. The museum also oversees the Frey House ll, the self-designed home of Albert Frey, the Swiss-born architect and father of “desert modernism,” and the Aluminaire House, designed by Frey and A. Lawrence Kocher in 1931 as America’s first all-metal home.
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