They say art imitates life. In Bombay Beach, Calif., it's a little hard to identify what's art and what is rubbish. The town is situated on the western side of the Salton Sea, the largest body of ...

An offbeat art festival called the Bombay Beach Biennale has come to the Salton Sea. How do the locals feel about the influx of art and opera? In the 1950s and ‘60s, Bombay Beach, California was a ...

Reporting from Bombay Beach, Calif. — It is dawn on Sunday morning and a sliver of blue light has begun to emerge from behind the Chocolate Mountains, illuminating the steely waters of the Salton Sea.

LA filmmaker Alma Har’el was scouting locations for a music video in southern California when she discovered Bombay Beach, a dying hamlet (population: 295) on the eastern shore of the Salton Sea. A ...

Three hours out of Los Angeles off Highway 111 lies an unassuming 9×5 mile grid of a town called Bombay Beach. Driving by, one might assume this is like any one of hundreds of coastal towns ...

In 2007, I stumbled upon a peculiar image in a bookstore: an Airstream trailer sitting in a puddle of toxic pink liquid. This photograph appeared on the cover of Kim Stringfellow’s book about the ...

Chris Metzler and Jeff Springer’s 2004 documentary Plagues & Pleasures On The Salton Sea covers the strange history of the manmade body of water in southern California, and how it sustained a vibrant ...