When:Saturday through May 27
Where: Palm Springs Art Museum, 101 Museum Drive, Palm Springs
Additional details: Free outdoor film series will be displayed in the exhibition.
Museum hours: 10 AM to 5 PM Monday-Wednesday, Friday-Sunday; noon to 8 pm Thursday. Closed Mondays and major holidays.
Login: Adults, $ 12.50; 62 and older, $ 10.50; students, $ 5; Members, 12 and younger, active military and their families with id, free of charge. Free admission from 4 to 8 p.m. Thursday and the second week of the month.
Information: (760) 322-4800; psmuseum.org
Free movies pool
The swimmer, 6 pm, February 2. 1968. Director: Frank Perry. Burt Lancaster stars as a man who tried to swim away pools of people s problem. Based on the short stories of John Cheever. Annenberg theater.
Swimming pool, 6 pm. March 8, 2003. Director: Fran ois ozone. A twisted psychological thriller with Charlotte Rampling as the author of the heat in rural France is not what he expected. Annenberg theater.
Esther Williams double feature: 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. March 11. 11 am, Bathing beauty, 1944. Director: George Sydney. Williams as the Teachers gymnasium with boyfriend troubles. Lecture Hall. 2 PM, Million dollar Mermaid (1952). Director: Mervyn Leroy. Biopic with Williams as the Annette Kellerman. Annenberg theater.
A bigger Splash, 6 PM on 12 April. 1973. Director: Jack Hazan. A documentary about artist David Hockney, with emphasis on its swimming pools work. Annenberg theater.
Men’s swimming, may 3rd, 6 pm.. Director: Dylan Williams. A man who approached 40 joined men’s synchronized swim team for battling a mid-life crisis. Annenberg theater.
backyard swimming pool will be forever associated with the Southern California lifestyle.
sparkling blue water icon Picture Sapphire offset by green grass Emerald has been respected, reviled and parodied. Here in the Coachella Valley, the swimming pool is close to the needs of desert life.
But how it came to symbolise the good life? It’s a microcosm of hope and disappointment post-War II culture? And how has the one change our perception?