A new book documents the creative essence of the High Desert and the folks who choose to live there. This exclusive excerpt previews a few of the artists featured in its pages.

Leave behind the familiar fields and open roads of the Imperial Valley, and you soon encounter a desert landscape that feels ...

With its dramatic rock formations, vast desert landscapes and iconic Joshua trees reaching for the sky, the Joshua Tree area ...

It’s like a horror scene out of some crazy science fiction movie,” says Quentin Nardi, Smithsonian magazine’s chief ...

Several waterfalls on Mount San Jacinto are normally only visible from the road, miles away. But a Desert Sun photographer got a closer look.

Nevada's desert landscape is filled with life that is hidden to human eyes. But when conditions are just right, typically ...

Private yachts were moored nearby, and some of the biggest celebrities were in attendance as Saudi Arabia partially opened Neom, its ambitious $500 billion mega-city in the desert. The event was ...

Desert X 2025 installation view of Sarah Meyohas, Truth Arrives in Slanted Beams. Courtesy of Desert X.. Image © Lance Gerber Desert X 2025 installation view of Jose ...

Desert X 2025 installation view of Sarah Meyohas, Truth Arrives in Slanted Beams. Courtesy of Desert X.. Image © Lance Gerber ...

In California’s Coachella Valley, home since 1999 to the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, the fifth edition of the renowned international site-specific contemporary art exhibition Desert X ...

"Capture the breathtaking beauty of desert landscapes with your iPhone. Discover stunning angles, play with golden hour lighting, and embrace unique textures of sand and rock formations. This guide ...