Contemporary Art Council

The Contemporary Art Council had an outstanding 2007-2008 season with many events and a successful, third ARTrageous Auction. The CAC is looking forward to a great 2008-2009 season with terrific local tours and our highly sought after extended tours to locations around the world. If you would like to join the CAC membership and request further information about the events planned for the CAC, please contact the CAC coordinator Lisa Wiley at 760.322.4823.

L.A. Art Tour

Thursday, January 22

8 a.m. – 10 p.m.

$350 per person

Bob Bogard This motor coach day tour will take CAC members to Los Angeles to visit three private collections and enjoy two delicious meals. First we will visit the Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation Collection with a guided tour through the private Beverly Hills residence to view the collection as originally installed in his home. Weisman was one of the most internationally prominent collectors of modern and contemporary art, and he formed an extensive collection with important pieces by de Kooning, Picasso, Rothko, Rauschenberg and many other great artists of the 20th century. Participants will receive a hardcover, slipped-cased book on the Weisman collection.

After lunch at Mako Restaurant, we will proceed to a private art collection in the West Hollywood hills. The residence is filled with cutting-edge art works by such artists as Francis Alys, Jeff Koons, Richard Tuttle, and Marlene Dumas along side classic sculptures by Calder, Caro, Shapiro, and Tony Smith.

Next, we motor coach to Brentwood to visit a collection that comprises works made over the last three decades by an international slate of prominent artists, including Kiki Smith, Nam June Paik, Mark Grotjahn, Sigmar Polke, Mike Kelley and Lari Pittman. During sunset we will experience James Turrell’s “sky space” that dramatically alters one’s perception of the California sky.

Our day concludes with a very special dinner at Wilshire Restaurant in Santa Monica before returning to Palm Springs.

Please contact CAC coordinator, Lisa Wiley at 760-322-4823 for more information. Participation is limited to CAC members only.

2008-2009 Schedule of Events

September 26, 2008 - Museum Members Lecture & Preview Reception for the exhibition Enrique Chagoya: Borderlandia (Exhibition sponsored by CAC)
5:30 PM – Lecture, Annenberg Theater
6-8 PM – Reception

November 6, 2008 - Preview Gallery Tour with guest curator Mark Coetzee for the exhibition: Against All Odds: Keith Haring in the Rubell Family Collection followed by a reception. Exclusive event for CAC members only (Exhibition sponsored by CAC)
5:30 PM – Preview tour and
Reception, Annenberg Art Wing

November 14, 2008 - Presentation by Artist Enrique Chagoya and Printmaker Bud Shark followed by dinner (Complimentary to CAC 1000 members)
5:30 PM – Lecture, Annenberg Theater
7 PM– Dinner, Le Vallauris

January 22, 2009 - Los Angeles Art Tour to visit Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation Collection & private art collections with lunch and dinner
8a.m.- 10 PM

January 23, 2009 - Museum Members Lecture & Preview Reception for theexhibition Robert Mapplethorpe: Pantheon of Portraits
5:30 PM – Lecture, Annenberg Theater
6– 8 PM, Reception

January 31, 2009 - Pizazz Gala 2009

February 10, 2009 - Museum Members Lecture & Preview Reception for the exhibition Wayne Thiebaud: Seventy Years of Painting
5:30 PM – Lecture, Annenberg Theater
6– 8 PMReception

March 26, 2009 - New Members Reception and tour of special areas of the Museum
5:30– 6:30 PM – Reception, Marcuse Sculpture Garden
6:30 – 8 PM – Museum tours

April 2, 2009 - Local Art Collection Tour with cocktail party
1:30 – 5:30 PM

April 16, 2009 - Annual Meeting, Election of Officers with Program by Jordan Schnitzer & Luncheon
10:30a.m. – Meeting & Program Annenberg Theater
12 PM – Luncheon, Le Vallauris

May 2 - 10, 2009 - Extended Art Tour to Argentina – Art + Wine

October 2009 - Extended Art Tour – Art and Architecture in the Hudson River Valley

The Art Museum currently has 28 galleries, five art storage vaults, two sculpture gardens, four classrooms/resource centers, a 90-seat lecture hall, the 433-seat Annenberg Theater, a Museum Store and a Café in an architecturally significant building designed by architect E. Stewart Williams at the base of Mount San Jacinto. An adjacent Administration building contains offices and a 12,000-volume Library.