If you're in Palm Springs now, or on your way here, there is a good chance you are going to be here from February 16 - 19.  A major art event, Art Palm Springs, will be held over this holiday weekend.  The Fair is the "Official Contemporary & Modern Art Exhibit and Market Place in Palm Springs California". The seventh annual edition will bring nearly 80 galleries from Asia, Europe, North and South America representing hundreds of artists to the Palm Springs Convention Center. The Fair is strategically scheduled over the extended President’s Day Weekend coinciding with Palm Springs Modernism Week at the height of the Coachella Valley’s season. Art Palm Springs and Modernism Week turn the Desert into a cultural mecca over this weekend, attracting close to 15,000 acquisition oriented art lovers to the Fair year after year.

Since its early editions, Art Palm Springs has been a draw for curators, collectors, designers and celebrities that include Cheech Marin, Jodie Foster, Alexa Davalos, Udo Kier, Shelby Lynne, Rain Phoenix, and award-winning designers Christopher Kennedy, Dann Foley and Erin Valencich.

The opening night will be on Thursday, February 15, and is for VIP ticket holders only.  The event will benefit the Palm Springs Art museum and will include an "Artist of the Year award presentation" to Ed and Andy Moses, who are father and son as well as gifted artists.