Palm Springs 'Mixed Feelings' Lectures Planned Through 2024

PALM SPRINGS, CA —The Palm Springs Art Museum's "Mixed Feelings" lecture series, featuring talks on seemingly unrelated topics that are somehow connected, will hold its last lecture of the year Thursday.

The back-to-back lectures, "Susan Sontag" and "The Salton Sea," will begin at 6 p.m. in the Palm Springs Art Museum Annenberg Theater, 101 North Museum Drive.

The first lectures to pick up the series in the new year will be "Boxing Culture" and "Queer Photography" on Jan. 4 before the series concludes with "Bad Bunny' and "The Light and Space Movement" on Jan. 18.

The series features two speakers who are paired to discuss their respective areas of expertise, and the audience then has an opportunity to connect the two subjects during a Q&A session.

The series started Oct. 26 with lectures on "Vegan Meat" and "The Representation of Zombies," and continued with "The History of Broadway Musicals" and "Deep-Sea Diving" on Nov. 29, and "Exoplanets" and "Contemporary Native Art" on Dec. 7.

"The series was started as 'Mixed Taste' by Palm Springs Art Museum's current CEO Adam Lerner when he was at the helm of the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver," museum spokesman Scott Slaven said. "He introduced 'Mixed Feelings' to the Coachella Valley in 2022."

Tickets for the lectures, each $16, can be purchased at psmuseum.org/events/.