Every hour on the hour, attendees are invited to ring the REVERSE SIDE, by Paula Crown. The bell is struck from the outside with a wooden clapper. The sound is mesmerizing, rising, falling, and resonating in a hypnotic way. THE REVERSE SIDE embodies themes that resonate with history, especially the destruction of bells during World War II. Hitler removed 190,000 bells from towns across occupied territory, stripping them of their clappers and rendering communities silent. The bells were then melted down for armaments.

As we approach America’s 250th anniversary, Crown offers THE REVERSE SIDE as a metaphor for each voice in a democracy and the importance of never being silent.

Open to all ticket holders. This experience is offered on the hour and requires in-person sign-up.

Join Topher Straus in Booth 208 for a conversation with the artist.

Can’t make it to the booth? This talk will be streamed on Instagram Live.

Open to all Intersect Palm Springs ticket holders.

Lawrence Schiller, Marilyn 1962, dye sublimation on aluminum, 30 x 40 in, courtesy of Melissa Morgan Fine Art

Marilyn and America in the 60’s brings together artist Lawrence Schiller and Palm Springs’ Steven Biller for a timely conversation on image-making, celebrity, and cultural memory during one of America’s most transformative decades. Through Schiller’s firsthand experiences and iconic lens, the panel explores Marilyn Monroe as both muse and myth—revealing how her image reflected (and shaped) the era’s shifting ideals of glamour, power, and identity.

3:00 pm | Panel Discussion
3:30 pm | Q&A
3:45 pm | Book Signing

This panel discussion is part of the Intersect Educational Series at Intersect Palm Springs Art + Design 2026. Open to all ticket holders. Attendees are encouraged to RSVP, as seating is limited.

Join Von Lintel Gallery in Booth 411 for a conversation with artist Osceola Refetoff.

Can’t make it to the booth? This talk will be streamed on Instagram Live.

Open to all Intersect Palm Springs ticket holders.

Images left ot right: Bahar Kural, When Time Played Along, 2025
archival pigment print; David Drebin, Wild At Heart, 2025, digital chromogenic print, 48 x 72 in, Hilton Contemporary

Join Hilton Contemporary in Booth 213 for a conversation with artist David Drebin.

Can’t make it to the booth? This talk will be streamed on Instagram Live.

Open to all Intersect Palm Springs ticket holders.

Join Yiwei Gallery in Booth 217 for a conversation with artist Charles Christopher Hill.

Can’t make it to the booth? This talk will be streamed on Instagram Live.

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Join Sylvain Latendresse in Booth 301 for a conversation with the artist.

Can’t make it to the booth? This talk will be streamed on Instagram Live.

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Join BELHAUS in Booth 206 for a conversation with artist Henry Leo Henry Leo Schoebel.

Can’t make it to the booth? This talk will be streamed on Instagram Live.

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Join Daniel Malikyar in Booth 204 for a conversation with artist.

Can’t make it to the booth? This talk will be streamed on Instagram Live.

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Leo Marmol celebrates craft as a way of living deliberately in a rapidly accelerating world. As technology increasingly mediates how we live and relate to one another, and instability becomes part of everyday life, he understands craft as play, a process rather than an end product. Tracing the evolution of Marmol Radziner’s design-build ethos alongside decades spent painting, Marmol contends that art, architecture, and design are not separate disciplines but expressions of a single creative impulse. Situated in the unique context of Palm Springs, this presentation explores the desert as a meeting ground between Modernist ideals and Outsider Art traditions. Marmol looks to the desert as a teacher of patience and restraint, informed by his firm’s extensive Modernist restoration work, new homes, and his own abstract paintings in dialogue with the landscape.

Invoking the Bauhaus belief in thinking through making and the myth of Sisyphus as articulated by Albert Camus, Marmol reflects on the human desire for clarity in a world that resists resolution. For Camus, the “absurd” is not despair, but the tension between our need for understanding and the absence of any grand plan or final explanation. Like Sisyphus pushing his boulder uphill, we continue the work knowing it will never be finished. No single artwork or building can resolve this condition, but that failure does not diminish their value. Instead, Marmol frames creative practice as an ongoing commitment: a willingness to begin again, and to find meaning not in arrival, but in return. The Work Continues asks what art can offer as artificial intelligence grows more powerful and complex, and suggests that the imperfect human act of making matters now more than ever.

This panel discussion is part of the Intersect Educational Series at Intersect Palm Springs Art + Design 2026. Open to all ticket holders. Attendees are encouraged to RSVP, as seating is limited.

Left to right: Paula Crown, photo: John Russo; and Craig Drennen, photo: Mohammad Jahangir.

Join renowned artist Paula Crown for a powerful conversation exploring how art intersects with activism, community, and global awareness. In this thought-provoking panel, Crown and Craig Drennen (artist and curator), will discuss how their creative practices have sparked dialogue and inspired action—from advocacy to reshaping social narratives.

This panel discussion is part of the Intersect Educational Series at Intersect Palm Springs Art + Design 2026. Open to all ticket holders. Attendees are encouraged to RSVP, as seating is limited.

Nikolas Soren Goodich, Luminous Community Center: Day and Night (image still); Mads Christensen, Good Vibrations, Timothy Yarger Fine Art; Donna Isham, Afternoon In the Country, Isham Projects; and Topher Straus, The Bells, dye-sublimated on recycled aluminum, 72 x 36 in

How is technology influencing contemporary art today? In this panel, Topher Straus, Donna Isham, Nikolas Soren Goodich, and Mads Christensen discuss the evolving relationship between light, innovation, and artistic practice—exploring how new tools and ideas are shaping the way art is created and experienced.

This panel discussion is part of the Intersect Educational Series at Intersect Palm Springs Art + Design 2026. Open to all ticket holders. Attendees are encouraged to RSVP, as seating is limited.

Join MRG Fine Art in Booth 310 for a conversation with artist Gary Brewer.

Can’t make it to the booth? This talk will be streamed on Instagram Live.

Open to all Intersect Palm Springs ticket holders.

Join Jeffrey Bernstein, Curtis McConnell, Peter Geiger, and Kelly Boesch for a discussion on the evolution of technology and how it is impacting the visual arts. Moderated by Peter Loforte.

This panel discussion is part of the Intersect Educational Series at Intersect Palm Springs Art + Design 2026. Open to all ticket holders. Attendees are encouraged to RSVP, as seating is limited.

Join Marloe Gallery in Booth 210 for a conversation with artist Eliza Stamps.

Can’t make it to the booth? This talk will be streamed on Instagram Live.

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Join Pratt Institute in Booth 117 for a conversation with Dr. Deborah Schneiderman and the students of their special exhibition.

Can’t make it to the booth? This talk will be streamed on Instagram Live.

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Experience the new Eisenhower Art Gallery, home to fine art generously given by our supporters.  Hosted by the Dolores Hope Auxiliary.

Call 760 895-7687 for more information.

Join Isham Projects in Booth 200 for a conversation with artist Donna Isham.

Can’t make it to the booth? This talk will be streamed on Instagram Live.

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Join Richard and Debra Hovel and explore three pivotal figures in the mid-century transformation of sculpture and craft into integral components of modernist architecture. Constantino Nivola, Peter Voulkos, and Stan Bitters each redefined the relationship between art, environment, and material, forging new connections between functional architecture and expressionist art. Their bold techniques and monumental forms challenged conventional distinctions between craft, fine art and building design, making surfaces come alive with texture, rhythm, and narrative.

This panel discussion is part of the Intersect Educational Series at Intersect Palm Springs Art + Design 2026. Open to all ticket holders. Attendees are encouraged to RSVP, as seating is limited.

Steven Biller, photo: Albert Angelo

What makes a collection meaningful—and how do collectors decide what to live with, invest in, and champion? In this Collector’s Roundtable, Steven Biller moderates an engaging discussion with Rod Lubeznik and Elena Ramirez on the art of collecting, from intuition and discovery to legacy and stewardship.

This panel discussion is part of the Intersect Educational Series at Intersect Palm Springs Art + Design 2026. Open to all ticket holders. Attendees are encouraged to RSVP, as seating is limited.

Left to right: Sharrissa Iqbal, photo: Ghazaleh Pourmojib; and Peter Frank, photo: Brooke Mason

Art historian and curator, Sharrissa Iqbal with special guest, Peter Frank, renown art critic and curatorto examine the history of abstract artwork in Southern California since 1950, situating the region’s experimental practices within broader conversations around technical innovation and perceptual experience.

Iqbal’s special exhibition Radiant Space: Fields of Vision in Southern California debuts at Intersect Palm Springs 2026. 

2 pm | Panel Discussion
2:30 pm | Q&A

This panel discussion is part of the Intersect Educational Series at Intersect Palm Springs Art + Design 2026. Open to all ticket holders. Attendees are encouraged to RSVP, as seating is limited.

Join Concierge Fine Art in Booth 403 for a conversation with artist Edward Lentsch.

Can’t make it to the booth? This talk will be streamed on Instagram Live.

Open to all Intersect Palm Springs ticket holders.

Left to right: Jinny Suh, Conversation, 2025, Hanji on canvas, 39.5 x 31.5 in, Taylor Fine Art; Deasa Turner, Out of Gas, torched violin with burned hotwheels matchbox cars and found objects, 36.5 x 8 x 5 in; and Susan Spector, Feeling The Space Around, 2024, mixed media, 31 x 25 in, courtesy of Taylor Fine Art

Join Taylor Fine Art in Booth 314 for a conversation with artist Jinny Suh, Deasa Turner, and Susan Spector.

Can’t make it to the booth? This talk will be streamed on Instagram Live.

Open to all Intersect Palm Springs ticket holders.

Join Timothy Yarger Fine Art in Booth 214 for a conversation with artist Caroline PM Jones.

Can’t make it to the booth? This talk will be streamed on Instagram Live.

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Join Artier Fine Art in Booth 424 for a conversation with artist Ariel Vargassal.

Can’t make it to the booth? This talk will be streamed on Instagram Live.

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Susan and Rod Lubeznik, recipients of the Intersect Palm Springs Art + Design 2026 Arts Advocacy Award

Join us as Tim von Gal, CEO, Intersect Art + Design shares a few remarks as he presents Susan and Rod Lubeznik with Intersect Palm Springs 2026 Arts Advocacy Award.

Open to all Intersect Palm Springs ticket holders. Attendees are encouraged to RSVP to best accommodate the experience.

Susan and Rod Lubeznik are passionate collectors of contemporary art and longtime supporters of the performing and visual arts. Their globally sourced art collection spans nearly three decades of acquisitions. Their commitment to artists includes supporting arts institutions, expanding contemporary art awareness in the communities in which they live, and ensuring works are seen by opening their home and providing loans to museums. The Lubezniks co-founded ART AT TAMARISK at private Tamarisk Country Club in 2021. In its fifth season, the annual, rotating program has exhibited 80 artists ranging from emerging to internationally acclaimed, selected by curators including Brooke Hodge, Rochelle Steiner, David Pagel, Bryan Barcena and currently, Jack Pierson.

Susan Lubeznik is a retired industry leader in internet and strategic marketing with an MBA from Northwestern University. Among other non-profit and corporate board positions, Susan was a trustee of Robert Wilson’s Byrd Hoffman Foundation and a member of the MCA Chicago’s Exhibitions Committee. She served seven years as a trustee of the Palm Springs Art Museum where she was Vice Chair, served on the Executive Committee, and chaired the Advancement committee. She is a trustee of High Desert Test Sites in Joshua Tree, CA and co-chair of ART AT TAMARISK.

Rod Lubeznik serves on the board and executive committee of the Michigan City, Indiana-based Lubeznik Center for the Arts. A veteran of community planning, and forprofit and non-profit boards he served on the board of the Arts Club of Chicago and the Collections Committee of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago. A graduate of Purdue University, Rod is the CEO of RMC Enterprises, LLC, which owns and operates McDonald’s restaurants in Chicago and Northwest Indiana. Currently President of the Tamarisk Country Club Board of Directors, Rod also co-chairs ART AT TAMARISK.

Steven Biller, recipient of the Intersect Palm Springs Art + Design 2026 Stewardship of the Arts Award. Photo: Albert Angelo

Join us as Tim von Gal, CEO, Intersect Art + Design shares a few remarks as he presents Steven Biller with Intersect Palm Springs 2026 Stewardship of the Arts Award.

Open to all Intersect Palm Springs ticket holders. Attendees are encouraged to RSVP to best accommodate the experience.

Vasa Velizar Mihich, recipient of the Intersect Palm Springs Art + Design 2026 Artist Award

Join us as Tim von Gal, CEO, Intersect Art + Design shares a few remarks as he presents Vasa Velizar Mihich with Intersect Palm Springs 2026 Artist Award.

Each year Intersect honors outstanding artists whose creativity, commitment and impact extend beyond the studio. The award celebrates not only the artistic excellence but the meaningful ways in which these individuals enrich and inspire the communities around them.

Open to all Intersect Palm Springs ticket holders. Attendees are encouraged to RSVP to best accommodate the experience.

Join us as Intersect Palm Springs Art + Design officially opens to the public with a celebratory evening for all attendees. Enjoy a first look at the 2026 fair and explore dynamic roster of galleries and special exhibitions behind this year’s vibrant presentations.

Open to all Intersect Palm Springs ticket holders.

Be among the first to experience Intersect Palm Springs Art + Design as we welcome VIPs for an exclusive preview of the dynamic roster of galleries and special exhibitions shaping this years fair. Enjoy light bites and wine while connecting with this year’s featured artists and exhibitors in an intimate reception setting.

Open to Intersect Palm Springs VIP/All-Access pass holders. Attendees are encouraged to RSVP to best accommodate the experience.