News

Artist and LagunaArt.com Gallery owner Shane Townley plans to build the Joshua Tree Art Museum on 2.5 acres on Twentynine Palms Highway.
Organizers of a new art museum in Joshua Tree announced their plans to build near the national park — but there’s a hitch. The foundation behind the project has had its operations suspended by ...
About Joshua Tree Art Museum (JTAM) The Joshua Tree Art Museum is a nonprofit organization founded by Shane Townley, dedicated to celebrating art, education and community in the High Desert.
Located along Highway 62 near Joshua Tree, the Glass Outhouse is more than a quirky name—it’s a desert art site featuring multiple galleries, large-scale sculptures, and functioning glass outhouses.
Must-see places in and around Joshua Tree include sites where a rock star met his fateful end, an outdoor museum built by a ...
It’s no secret that the string of high desert towns along Highway 62 – Pioneertown, Joshua Tree, 29 Palms, Morongo Valley, Yucca Valley, Landers, Wonder Valley, and environs – has long been ...
Held every October, the Hwy 62 Open Studio Art Tours are a massive, self-guided tour of artist studios that span the entire Morongo Basin. Now in its 18th year, the 2019 event takes place over ...
The latest edition of High Desert Test Sites opens as the desert around Joshua Tree is becoming an increasingly popular destination for art-lovers and tourists ...
Here’s the story of Elmer Long’s Bottle Tree Ranch: There was a guy named Elmer Long. Starting when he was a kid, he and his dad would collect old bottles from trash dumps in the desert.
“Desert X,” an exhibition for which 16 participating artists have created site-specific works, calls us into the desert, a space typically perceived as a locus of artistic inspiration.
High Desert Test Sites, the former home and studio of artist Andrea Zittel, hosts site-related art commissions and working residencies — including a current one by photographer An-My Lê, a ...