June 12, 2021
Last weekend Bob was away from home so I decided to take a little trip out to Palm Springs to visit the art museum. I hadn't been there in years and thought it would make a good day trip. Unfortunately, it topped out at about 110° F that day, but fortunately there is covered parking and I spent most of my time inside.
If you think of Palm Springs as a lush oasis, you are misguided. It is definitely the desert.
Today the museum has a collection of about 24,000 objects, which is not bad for a regional museum.
I started with a temporary exhibit across the street from the museum. History of Suspended Time (A monument for the impossible) is artist Gonzalo Lebrija's recreation of a piece of performance art when he used a crane to drop a car into a lake while filming it with a high-speed camera. This is the moment just before the car hits the water.
Although this car is a 1968 Chevy Malibu, the exhibit reminded me a lot of Cadillac Ranch, which we had just seen a few months prior in Texas.
