Visit Noah Purifoy Outdoor Desert Art Museum (Noah's Art), Joshua Tree, California

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In the late 1980s, Purifoy moved to the Mojave Desert, and over the last fifteen years of his life built what is now the Noah Purifoy Outdoor Sculpture Museum. Located on 10 acres of open land near the town of Joshua Tree, California, the museum contains over one hundred works of art, including large scale assemblages, environmental sculptures, and installation art created by the artist between 1989–2004. The Noah Purifoy Outdoor Sculpture Museum was expanded in 2016 to contain the adjacent land art sculptureUnagi. Viewed best from the highest point in Purifoy's Sculpture Museum, the sculpture evokes the image of larger than life eels made out of damaged and obsolete freight trains collected from the nearby Desert Freight Services. The sculpture can be accessed by a trail-head north of Purifoy's Outdoor Sculpture Museum, where visitors can walk through the freight trains and explore current and past installations. One freight operates as a permanent squat, where travelers are welcome to stay. The last freight in the line features a permanent installation by the anonymous artist "Unagi Boi": the space is dark, insular and cave-like while simultaneously flooded with bright teal and magenta, dynamically tactile with comfortable, soft places to lie down as well as sharp natural cacti, functioning both as a shrine to the natural resonant silence of the desert and an ideal space for live musical performance. This free and public space is actively used and well known for its revolutionary services as a meeting ground for communication, connection, relaxation, celebration and stimulation among individuals and the greater society at large. Adrian’s Little Theater is an air hangar-looking structure inJoshua Tree. Step up on the stage and show off your performing skills. What’s the worst thing that could happen? You’re in the middle of a desert!

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