Noah Purifoy: Outdoor Desert Art Museum, Joshua Tree

Two days after filming the Noah Purifoy retrospective at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) we went to Joshua Tree to have a look at Noah Purifoys magnum opus, the Outdoor Desert Art Museum. In the late 1980s after eleven years of public policy work for the California Arts Council, Purifoy moved his practice out to the Mojave desert, where he lived for the last fifteen years of his life. He created tenacres full of largescale sculpture on the desert floor, constructed entirely from junked mate