Palm Springs Art Museum

     I came away from the Palm Springs Art Museum thinking that it has a little bit of everything.  They had paintings, photography, textiles, sculpture, furnishings, basketry, and ancient artifacts.

Here I am in front of the museum.  This sculpture was done by Zhan Wang and is appropriately enough called Artificial Rock.

Artist Yoshimoto Nara named his fiberglass pet Your Dog.  With a lot of black spray paint, I could turn this into My Dog!

I liked the wishing sphere.  You write your wish on a piece of paper and insert the paper into the slot.  I wonder what they do with all those wishes when the sphere fills up.

I love baskets.  They had two walls of baskets.

This is Ryuanji by Deborah Butterfield.  Ms. Butterfield created the horse from driftwood found near her home, then cast the statue in bronze.  She then treated the bronze so that it became the same color as the original drfitwood.

This pair of male and female figures is called Nayarit.  They are 2000-2500 years old.

Mid-Century Modern
So, do you think it's coming back any time soon?

Spider II by Louise Bourgeois
Loiuse Bourgeois liked to make spiders.  She says this example symbolizes maternity.  It has to be big and scary to protect and nurture its brood.  This piece is described as a "monstrous mamman."  I liked the spider, but I never once thought it represented anything maternal. 

What looks like a pile of Hefty® bags is actually a bronze sculpture that has been painted black.  I don't think this sort of thing impresses anymore.

Nor did I like this - Mother's Pride IV by Anthony Gormley.  It is made from lots of slices of white sandwich bread.  The figure in the center that looks like it is curled up in the fetal position  was formed by taking bites out of the bread.  How in the world do they keep the bread from getting moldy?

Apart X (dated 2002), also by Anthony Gormley, reminds me of ...

.... Ma'aseyahu (2012) by Boaz Vaadia.  I saw this piece at the Gardens for Sculpture in Hamilton, New Jersey.

Palm Springs Art Museum has a collection of glass art.

Remember this from our trip to the Corning Museum of Glass?

Old Couple on a Bench by Duane Hanson was different in scale from, but still reminded me of ...

... Crossing Paths by Seward Johnson.

     Is this a special art genre?  Why so many headless things?

Recling Figure (For Rome) by Thomas Houseago

This is one of three headless works by Anslem Kiefer called Women of Antiquity.

Headless babies in red onesies - why??

     Corny, but true, we lost our heads over Palm Springs.