One of Joshua Tree’s most important cultural sites, the iconic Noah Purifoy Outdoor Museum, has shared the details of their upkeep efforts in 2022.
The museum, which is most known for an immersive garden of outdoor assemblage and sculpture artwork built by artist Noah Purifoy, who lived at the site until his death in 2004, requires regular maintenance to withstand the extreme heat, cold, and winds of the high desert.
This year, the Noah Purifoy Foundation was hard at work updating paint, stucco, and stabilizing some of Purifoy’s iconic works like Ode to Frank Gehry, 2000, Untitled (Asylum), 2000, and The White House, 1990-93. The museum also received new art placards, providing information about each work, which are expected to be installed this spring.
Unfortunately, the museum’s outdoor donation box was broken into and destroyed this year, so the Foundation is only accepting donations electronically or via mail for the foreseeable future. The Noah Purifoy Desert Art Museum of Assemblage Art is open to the public every day of the year from sun up until sundown and is free of charge.
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