CALIFORNIA, US — The Hi-Desert Cultural Center’s state-of-the-art Joshua Tree Gallery of Contemporary Art (JTGOCA) opens its newest exhibition, ARCHIVES + DESERT DWELLERS, with a free public gala on Saturday, January 4, 2025 from 6:30-9+pm where art patrons, buyers, enthusiasts, collectors, and aficionados, may celebrate the new and unique works. The exhibition features the artwork of Christopher Cole, Joanna Fodczuk, Bobby Furst, Eliot Lee Hazel, Hutch, Grant Earl LaValley, Sunny Moon, Stefanie Schneider, Patricia Vernhes, Adam Villacin, Magdalena Wosinska, Jay Zaretsky. The gala includes a no-host bar and musical entertainment. ARCHIVES + DESERT DWELLERS will remain open every Saturday and Sunday from 11am to 6pm through January 30, 2025.
No-host bar and snacks available.
Control stands apart from most music biopics because it refuses to turn Curtis into a simple icon or legend. Instead of building toward a triumphant performance or a tidy moral, the film lingers on the small spaces where Curtis’s life actually unfolded–small homes, rehearsal rooms, backstage hallways, and hospitals.
Kenneth Anger considered cinema not as storytelling but as an act of Magick in the tradition of Aleister Crowley’s “art and science of causing change in accordance with one’s will.” The film is not meant to explain itself. Its creator believed that meaning, like ritual, is experiential; it is something the viewer feels, not interprets.
