Palm Springs Art Museum to Host Lectures

From Cord Media Company: Four stimulating lectures on diverse topics are planned for December at Palm Springs Art Museum. The lectures, which are open to the public, are free or have a nominal admission fee.

Throughout the year, the museum hosts lecture series and symposia that highlight various aspects of the museum’s collection and other informative topics featuring noteworthy speakers, professors and experts in a wide-ranging survey of art.

The first lecture in December has already sold out and will feature Architect Doug Hudson examining the history of the iconic Sea Ranch community on California’s Sonoma Coast in his lecture, Meanwhile, Back at The (Sea) Ranch: An Iconic Community, 50 Years On. The lecture, to be held at Palm Springs Art Museum, Lecture Hall will include a discussion on the evolution of the community’s philosophy of "living lightly on the land," and its changing architectural trends, social attitudes, and political processes. A visit to Hudson's Old Las Palmas home will follow the lecture.

Presented to accompany the exhibition at Palm Springs Art Museum in Palm Desert, Glass for the New Millennium: Masterworks from the Kaplan-Ostergaard Collection, renowned glass artist Steve Klein presents The Future is Glass. Klein will share the meaningful and exciting journey of studio glass as it reaches into the new millennium, exploring the development of its artists, techniques, materiality, innovation, and education. This lecture will be held Thursday, December 8, from 5:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. at Palm Springs Art Museum, Annenberg Theater and admission is free.

As part of the new Mondays @ The Museum lecture series, Palm Springs Art Museum is proud to feature Native Art History: From Baskets to Film with guest speaker Michael Hammond, PhD, director emeritus, Agua Caliente Cultural Museum. Hammond will explore the impact of western expansion on the Native population. Referencing the Go West: Art of the American Frontier exhibition, he will portray how Native artists have proliferated, through various artistic mediums, while maintaining traditional values. The lecture will be held Monday, December 12, from 10 a.m. to 12 noon at Palm Springs Art Museum, Annenberg Theater. The Desert Sun is a media sponsor for Mondays @ The Museum. Admission is $15 for museum members and $20 nonmembers.

On Thursday, December 15, from 5:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. Jonathan Petropoulos, John V. Croul Professor of European History, Claremont McKenna College will discuss how two recent films, The Monuments Men and A Woman in Gold, and the sensational 2012 confiscation of the Gurlitt cache, have influenced the restitution of property to rightful owners in his lecture The "Real" (and Reel) Monuments Men, the Gurlitt Cache, and the Continuing Challenges of Nazi Looted Art. The lecture takes place at Palm Springs

Art Museum, Annenberg Theater and admission is free. Tickets can be purchased at the Annenberg Theater Box Office or by calling 760-325- 4490. For more information about these lectures, membership opportunities, on going exhibitions, as well as locations, hours and admission prices, please visit here or call 760-322-4800.

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