2025 Q2 Newsletter
Agnes Denes, The Living Pyramid, 2025
HAPPY SPRING, ART TRIPPERS!
So far this year has been filled with traveling and art (just the way I like it!) and a lot of hard work here at Art Trippin’!
NEW ART TRIPPIN’ CONTENT
If you follow us on YouTube, you’ve seen that we launched a new YouTube series! The Art Trippin' Lecture Series is a series of long-form lecture-style videos where I am able to go into even more depth, so we can really nerd out on art history. You can start with the basics, learn about a particular art style, or satisfy your curiosity about a particular painting. If you’ve ever wondered what it’s like to take an art history class with Prof D, now you can find out! But don’t think I’ve forgotten about short-form content. At the beginning of this year I traveled to Egypt where I filmed on-site, and there will be videos coming to TikTok and YouTube Shorts very soon!
ART TRIPPIN’ CURATES THE BEST OF DESERT X 2025
Some of my favorite art trippin’ so far this year was done right at home in California. Desert X is a site-specific exhibition in Coachella Valley where international artists create installation art that responds to the desert environment and engages with the local community. You just download the map and travel through the desert to see each of the installations. And good news! The art will be on display until May 11, so you still have time to see it for yourself.
Alison Saar, Soul Service Station, 2025
This year’s exhibition is curated by Kaitlin Garcia-Maestas and Neville Wakefield, and features so many talented artists. Some of my fave installations this year include:
Jose Dávila’s The act of being together — a sort of modern Stonehenge of marble brought across the border from Mexico 🪨
Alison Saar’s Soul Service Station — a lone desert service station meant to fill up your weary soul with poetry (the sound comes out of the shell!) because let’s be for real, who doesn’t need this at the moment? 🐚
Kimsooja’s To Breathe – Coachella Valley — a spiraling installation that draws you into magical interplays of sight, sound, and space, making visible what seems invisible 🌀
Sanford Bigger’s Unsui (Mirror) — playful sequin clouds that recall Japanese animation and streetwear culture ☁️
Kapwani Kiwanga’s Plotting Rest — juxtaposition of hard and soft in the African inspired pergola 🌾
Agnes Denes’ The Living Pyramid — juxtaposing the eternal connotations of the pyramid with the ephemerals of native wildflowers (still making art at age 94 #goals) 🌺🌸🌼
And the pièce de résistance! Sarah Meyohas’ site specific installation Truth Arrives in Slanted Beams — examines the intersection of technology and nature, and the concept of Truth itself 🌞
Sarah Meyohas, Truth Arrives in Slanted Beams, 2025
I am forever grateful to artists for making beautiful, thought-provoking experiences for the philosopher within us all. I cannot recommend enough that you go to see the works yourself. But if you can’t make it, don’t worry. There will be plenty of Desert X content coming to you very soon!
