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Ancient and Modern: Selections from the Permanent Collection
Many artists from Mexico, Central and South America looked to their artistic heritage for inspiration. Artists such as Gunther Gerzo, Rufino Tamayo, Carlos Merida and others collected artifacts from their ancestral past in an effort to preserve them for future generations and to use as inspiration for their modern artistic production. This installation of works from the museum's permanent collection brings together a wide range of expressions. Ancient figures and abstractions are displayed along side modern ones. Echoes from the past can almost be heard, like a whisper, joining voices with the modern expressions paying homage to their roots.
Contemporary Glass
The glass center is installed with glass works drawn from the museum's permanent collection and new works on loan from significant private collectors of contemporary glass in the desert communities. Noted national and international artists in this exhibition show a range of glass techniques and their diverse subjects range from the narrative and figurative to the natural world and the exploration of color in space.
Desert Jeep or Hummer Tours
Don't let the tiny fact that there isn't any roads in the deep desert stop you from experiencing Palm Springs' arid backcountry. Sign up with one of the city's many Jeep or Hummer tours that take adventures travelers out into desert expanses. Tour companies provide everything you'll need for a safe and comfortable trip.
Notes: Group Tours, Things to Do
Global Lens 2009
The Palm Springs Art Museum will screen the critically acclaimed Global Lens 2009 film series for free in its Annenberg Theater. The Global Lens series consists of ten award-winning feature films from Argentina, Brazil, China, Ecuador, Indonesia, Iran, Kazakhstan, Macedonia, Morocco and Mozambique. The innovative film series, now in its sixth year, premiered in New York in January, 2009 and is now on a yearlong tour of more than forty cities across the United States.
Global Lens 2009 features four films that premiered in North America (The Photograph, Sleepwalking Land, Song From The Southern Seas and I Am From Titov Veles) and also includes award winners Getting Home (Ecumenical Jury Prize, Berlin International Film Festival), Mutum (winner of the Directors' Fortnight award) and Possible Lives (winner of Pavilion les Cinémas du Sud, Cannes Film Festival).
Notes: Free Entry
Jeff Trachta Live!
Spa Resort Casino proudly presents Jeff Trachta Live!, a wildly entertaining variety show that you can only see here, at our intimate Cascade Lounge in downtown Palm Springs. Jeff Trachta is best known to more than 450 million soap fans as Thorne Forrester, the hunky 1990s heartthrob from the hit CBS show The Bold and The Beautiful. But now audiences are falling in love with him all over again as he takes his talents to the stage in his incredible one-man variety show. Trachta delivers wildly entertaining comedy, music and celebrity impressions unlike anything you've seen before. Come see what has audiences cheering for more!
Joshua Tree National Park Jeep Adventure
Joshua Tree National Park Adventure - This tour takes you to one of the nation's most outstanding wilderness treasures, Joshua Tree National Park you will use a rugged back country trail through the Little San Bernadino Mountains to take clients from the Colorado Desert to over 4000 feet elevation in the Mojave Desert. You will be treated to magnificent unspoiled desert vistas, spectacular rock formations, unique plant and animal life, and outstanding geology.
Notes: Reservations Required
Kennewick Man on Trial
Kennewick Man on Trial explores important legal, ethical, and scientific issues raised by the accidental discovery of a nearly complete male skeleton with a projectile point lodged in his right hip. This skeleton, unearthed in 1996 in Kennewick, Washington, is described as "Caucasoid" and carbon dated between 5,650 and 9,510 years old. Text and quotes present a variety of points of view on issues of federal law and the care of Native American human remains, how people first came to the Americas, and changing ideas about race. Kennewick Man on Trial was developed by the Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture at the University of Washington in Seattle.
Notes: Free Entry, Native American
Let the Good Times Roll!
The Fabulous Palm Springs Follies celebrates happy days with Let the Good Times Roll! All season long, they're bringing back the greatest good-time music of the '40s, '50s and '60s, from big bands and swing to doo-wop, motown and pop.
Add classic vaudeville by way of ventriloquist extraordinaire Brad Cummings and his prehistoric dinosaur "Rex"; four world famous guest stars-Susan Anton, The Four Aces, Rita Coolidge and Mary Wilson; along with a legendary line of Long-Legged Lovelies and Follies Gentlemen (all 56 to 86 years young) - and the Follies' 19th season promises to be their best show ever!
Lino Tagliapietra in Retrospect: A Modern Renaissance in Italian Glass
This exhibition, a comprehensive forty-year retrospective of Tagliapietra's art and career, documents and celebrates his remarkable achievements as a contemporary artist. The exhibition includes 169 art works that range from a room-size installation of his impressive Endeavor boat series, to groupings of masterful goblets, to elegant and evocative sculptural forms. Tagliapietra is widely revered as the master of glassblowing, an inspiring teacher and the elder statesman who is credited with shaping the course of international Studio Glass.
Lorenzo Lamas
Lorenzo Lamas (son of singer Fernando Lamas and actress Arlene Dahl) grew up in Southern California and at thirteen, moved to New York City. His first acting role was Tom Chisum in the blockbuster film Grease. He then starred in several television roles and was eventually cast in Falcon Crest, where he played the role of Lance Cumson for nine years. Following that, he made a number of action movies including Snake Eater, Body Rock and CIA Target Alexa, which he also directed.
A black belt in Tae Kwon Do, Lamas worked with Stephen Cannell to develop an action television series, Renegade in which he starred, produced and directed for the next five years. He then appeared in Air America. He recently starred in a touring production of A Chorus Line.
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