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Weshoyot Alvitre Responds to “INDIANLAND” Installation

by Weshoyot AlvitreApril 10, 2021

Weshoyot Alvitre is a Tongva and Scottish Comic Book artist and illustrator. Her piece TONGVALAND was created in 2019. This op-ed is written in response to the Desert X exhibition in Palm Springs, California, and installation of large oversized “INDIANLAND”…

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Hatchetman: The Desert Exile of Harry Bennett

by Ann JapengaJanuary 21, 2021

Harry Bennett had been watching his back trail most of his life, but finally–atop a winding driveway on a high knoll in Desert Hot Springs–he could rest. He picked up his binoculars and scoped his kingdom. The long views in…

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The Way Home: Lynda Keeler’s Neighborhood Maps

by Ann JapengaJanuary 20, 2021

Lynda Keeler had been trying out different styles—figurative painting, hard edge—but nothing felt authentic. Contemplating her bedrock truths, she came up with this: I walk. I look. The artist walks miles each day through every neighborhood she’s ever lived in,…

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Deep Desert: Kevin Key Descends 765 Feet Beneath the Surface

by Ann JapengaNovember 18, 2020

Kevin Key grew up in the conformity of a San Diego suburb with a vigilant HOA. Naturally, as a young man he was drawn to the desert to the east where there were no rules and you could find old,…

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Allan McCollum: Mt. Signal and its Sand Spikes

by Ann JapengaOctober 14, 2020

New York artist Allan McCollum was having a run of bad luck. He’d been stiffed by a dealer, lost his studio and racked up his credit cards. Fed up with the commerce of art, he put everything in storage and…

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Echoes of the San Andreas: A New Book from Jane Culp

by Ann JapengaJuly 30, 2020

During this sad summer of 2020, I’ve often looked south from my Palm Springs home, past the new burn at Araby, orienting myself by the twin horns of Toro Peak. Up there is the wild Anza country. To get to…

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