Showing posts with label desert artists. Show all posts
Showing posts with label desert artists. Show all posts
December 27, 2018

This Desert Life: Another year in the Mojave

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The late-afternoon sun bursts through the spears of a Joshua tree in a rural section of the Mojave Desert north of Barstow. [Matthew Cabe,...
May 31, 2018

The trees of summer: Smoke trees, cacti and palms have long been revered by desert locals

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Palm tree in the desert. (Photo: Palm Springs Historical Society/Special to The Desert Sun) Tracy Conrad Special to The Desert Sun S ...
April 10, 2018

Finding beauty in detritus in the Mojave Desert

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Noah Purifoy’s Outdoor Museum of Assemblage Sculpture in Joshua Tree. “No Contest (Bicycles)” (Helen Gordon/CC BY 2.0) Mike McPhate The...
January 5, 2018

Smoke trees in full indigo bloom are a desert paradox

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Smoke trees. Words by Ruth Nolan Photographs by Millicent Harvey Desert Sun Magazine W hen it comes to iconic desert trees, Palm Spr...
August 24, 2017

Burning Man: Giant jellyfish, pulsating heart and rebuilt Boeing 747 set to dazzle at Nevada desert festival

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Work by Ken Feldman, Vasily Klyukin and Peter Hazel among installations on display at leading US contemporary arts extravaganza One of the l...
May 18, 2017

Capturing the Mojave Desert

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Painters, Photographers, Poets, and More Invited to Artist-in-Residence Program A spring scene from the Mojave National Preserve (Matt Kettm...
May 10, 2016

The Little Pool Hidden In The Desert Has Apparently Been Destroyed

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Social Pool, in the beginning (Photo via Alfredo Barsuglia) BY JULIET BENNETT RYLAH LAist S ocial Pool, the little pool hidden in the mi...
August 31, 2015

At Burning Man, pretty much anything goes

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Burning Man participants visit the site's temple, which will eventually be set on fire. Visitors leave notes inside and in the walls o...
March 10, 2015

The Desert Oracle Is Your New Favorite Guidebook

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by Rick Paulas KCET.org T he Desert Oracle is a new print quarterly, and it's amazing. I could try to come up with the perfect 100 w...
September 26, 2014

Gifts in the desert: the psychology of Burning Man

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At the Burning Man festival, kindness flourishes and generosity is widespread. Research on the psychology of human altruism helps explain wh...
September 9, 2014

Interpreting the California Desert Landscape With Patricia Chidlaw

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Owens Lake 2012 by Patricia Chidlaw High & Dry KCET.org U nbeknownst to each other, L.A. art photographer Osceola Refetoff and Santa ...
September 2, 2014

Burning Man Draws 66,000 People To The Nevada Desert

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Embrace at Burning Man 2014. By MARTIN GRIFFITH Associated Press RENO, Nev. — The Burning Man counterculture festival drew a peak cro...
August 26, 2014

The gates are open! Tens of thousands of stranded 'burners' flood into Burning Man site after festival is reopened following rare storm

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Deserted: Tens of thousands of people should have arrived to create a make-shift city in Nevada's Black Rock Desert. But after Monday...
August 20, 2014

A Line Is Drawn in the Desert

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At Burning Man, the Tech Elite One-Up One Another “If you haven’t been, you just don’t get it,” said the entrepreneur Elon Musk of Burning M...
July 29, 2014

Camping By a Pool in the Mojave Desert Was the Weirdest Night of My Life

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The boys crouched down to unlock the cover to the pool and slowly slid it open, like they were exposing a tiny silver of heaven. Our own per...