Art installation in Palm Springs honors the life of Tyre Nichols

Palm Springs, California — In the blazing desert heat, an alluring snapshot towers above what seems to be an endless highway. "It's such a simple, ...

May 5, 2023
6:52 AM

Palm Springs, California — In the blazing desert heat, an alluring snapshot towers above what seems to be an endless highway. "It's such a simple, beautiful photograph, the actual surface of the road disappearing into the landscape," Desert X artistic director Neville Wakefield told CBS News of the photograph snapped by the late Tyre Nichols, which is one of several on highway billboards, part of the biennial Desert X exhibition in Palm Springs, California. Nichols, a California native, died in January, three days after being violently beaten by police in Memphis, Tennessee, during a traffic stop.

Elise Preston