HE UNIVERSE of illumination and color, along with reflections on how we perceive it, is the subject of “Light + Change,” a show at the Palm Springs Art Museum (until May 7, 2023) featuring Phillip K. Smith III’s light-based work of the last two decades. Add to that the elements of space and of time, as you stroll through the four galleries and see works cycle through a palette of colors on flat LED panels. They are, as Smith says, “Akin to an animated painting that is durational.” The availability of these panels—hard to believe but they weren’t always available to
