VIP Access.
VIP Access.
Walk a vast outdoor environment of assemblage and desert ruins where found materials, time and landscape collide to reveal a radical vision
Set within the open desert of Joshua Tree, this guided visit explores the vast outdoor environment created by Noah Purifoy, where assemblage, landscape, and time are inseparable. Walking among large-scale sculptures made from salvaged materials, visitors encounter a practice rooted in reuse, social history, and radical independence from traditional art institutions. The work unfolds slowly across the site, shaped by weather, decay, and persistence, revealing Purifoy’s belief that art could exist as a lived, evolving relationship with place. The tour offers space to reflect on how material, labor, and environment converge to form one of the most important and uncompromising artistic legacies in the American desert.
A guided introduction to High Desert Test Sites, the pioneering platform for site-responsive art founded by Andrea Zittel.
This guided tour offers an immersive introduction to High Desert Test Sites, the influential experimental arts platform founded by artist Andrea Zittel. Since its founding in 2002, High Desert Test Sites has created a unique model for presenting site-responsive art rooted in the landscapes, ecology, and communities of the Mojave Desert.
Over the past two decades, the organization has hosted projects by artists from around the world who engage directly with the desert environment, creating installations, performances, and interventions that respond to the land and its cultural context. The initiative has played a pivotal role in shaping the high desert as a destination for contemporary art and experimentation.
Visitors will learn about the history of the program, its curatorial philosophy, and the ways artists continue to engage with the Mojave’s unique terrain.
Andrea Zittel will also be hosting the annual High Desert Test Sites benefit dinner on March 28, honoring artist Andrea Bowers and supporting the organization’s ongoing work. More information about the event can be found here:
https://www.hdts.site/events/2026-andrea-bowers
LUNCH AND Studio tour with Ryan Schneider
Friday, Mar 27 from 1:30 pm to 4:00 pm
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Encounter carved wooden figures drawn from desert trees, revealing an intuitive practice of excavation where form, matter, and landscape con
An immersive visit into Ryan Schneider’s desert studio, where fallen trees become towering, hand-carved sculptures shaped through intuition and physical labor. Working directly into wood gathered from his Joshua Tree surroundings, Schneider releases forms that feel ancient, ceremonial, and alive, revealing a practice rooted in excavation rather than construction.
Tour of Rachel Whiteread’s Ghost Cabins. Collection of Jerry Sohn
Saturday, Mar 28 from 10 am to 11:30 amm
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Tour Rachel Whiteread’s Ghost Cabins—casts of desert cabin interiors that transform absence into sculpture.
This special tour offers access to Ghost Cabins, a striking installation by British sculptor Rachel Whiteread, presented in the collection of Jerry Sohn.
Whiteread is internationally known for her groundbreaking work casting the negative space of everyday architecture — from houses and rooms to staircases and furniture — revealing the invisible volumes that define how we inhabit space. With Ghost Cabins, she brings this practice to the desert, transforming the interior voids of small structures into solid sculptural forms.
The resulting works feel both familiar and uncanny: architectural memories rendered as quiet monuments within the vast landscape. Set against the openness of the desert, the cabins take on an added resonance, reflecting on absence, shelter, and the traces of human presence in remote environments.
This guided tour provides a rare opportunity to experience Whiteread’s work in situ, where sculpture, architecture, and landscape intersect.
Tour of Arata Isozaki’s Desert Rooms. Collection of Jerry Sohn
sunday, Mar 29 from 10 am to 11:30 am
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A rare guided tour of Arata Isozaki’s Desert Rooms, an architectural installation exploring space, light, and contemplation in the desert la
This special tour offers visitors the opportunity to experience Desert Rooms, a series of architectural pavilions conceived by the renowned Japanese architect Arata Isozaki and stewarded in the private collection of collector Jerry Sohn.
Designed as a sequence of minimalist structures placed within the desert environment, the Desert Rooms explore Isozaki’s long-standing interest in the relationship between architecture, perception, and landscape. Each pavilion frames the surrounding terrain in a different way, transforming light, shadow, and scale into elements of spatial experience.
More than architecture alone, the project functions as a contemplative environment — inviting visitors to slow down and consider how built form can interact with the vast openness of the desert.
This guided tour provides rare access to the installation and offers insight into Isozaki’s vision of architecture as both physical structure and philosophical inquiry.