The Kaplan/Ostergaard Glass Center has been recently redesigned and relocated to galleries in the southwest end of the Denney Western American Art Wing. The renovations have transformed the galleries into a light-filled spacious environment with an innovative exhibition design that presents glass sculptures in fresh new ways against a wall of light.

This exhibition explores the relationship between ancient Mexican objects and 20th-century art. Created as early as 100 B.C., the ancient objects provide insights into the creativity and beliefs of Latin American indigenous cultures while Modern artworks by Diego Rivera, Rufino Tamayo, David Alfaro Siqueiros and others reveal a direct link between Mesoamerican objects and modern art forms. Inspired by the archaeological discovery and exploration of Aztec, Mayan and West Mexico Amerindian cultures, 20th-century artists recognized and appreciated the aesthetic importance and significance of these ancient cultures. For Mexico, the concept of national identity has been shaped in large part by the ongoing discovery of its own antiquity.

Born on a ranch near Fresno, California, Maynard Dixon (1875-1946) became a noted illustrator, landscape artist and mural painter of the early 20^th-century American West. His favored subjects included landscapes (especially the desert), Indians, early settlers and cowboys. Influenced by modernism, he developed a unique style of painting bold masses of color with simple lines which led him into mural painting where he excelled much of his professional life

This exhibition, specifically organized for the Palm Springs Art Museum and personally curated by Mark Coetzee, Rubell Family Collection director, is the first of other future collaborations between the two museums involving a range of initiatives featuring exhibitions drawn from the rich holdings of the Rubell Family Collection.