Shepard Fairey is not afraid of AI art and other lessons from the High Desert Art Fair

Shepard Fairey is not afraid of AI art and other lessons from the High Desert Art Fair

During a hot weekend in Pioneertown, the High Desert Art Fair drew creatives in droves, including Shepard Fairey and Mark Mothersbaugh, to a region long celebrated for attracting artistic misfits prone to experimentation.

California’s High Desert Is Rich With Natural and Artistic Beauty—All Amplified by a Budding Art Fair

If you got the uncanny feeling, while visiting the High Desert Art Fair (HDAF) last weekend, that you were on a movie set, that’s because, in a way, you were. The event took place in California’s High Desert, at the Pioneertown Motel, built in 1946 by Gene Autry and Roy Rogers to simulate a Western town on screen. It’s located a couple of hours’ drive (if you time it right) from Los Angeles; about an hour from Palm Springs, with its thriving art…