No Country for Old Interns

  This is my last post. Thank you for your loyal readership over the past six months. My internship at the Chinati Foundation has come to an [...]

  The Marfa Book Company’s spare, beautiful installation of works on paper by Ian Hamilton Finlay—a Scottish poet, writer, artist and noted gardener who died in [...]

  Marfa is full of curious things, and the Ayn Foundation is one of the most curious.    The windows of the two storefronts of the old Brite [...]

    In a little casita not far from downtown Marfa, Catherine Cox is working diligently to set up her studio, which she’s named Marfa Made [...]

The last NYC vs. Marfa post was so popular that I decided to try it again. See if you can guess which photos feature Marfa and which [...]

  The Chinati Foundation is located on 340 acres of the former Fort D. A. Russell, which closed following World War II in 1946. Barracks, latrines, mess halls, [...]

  This summer, Ballroom Marfa hired a new curator, Mike Bianco. He replaces Alicia Ritson, who began the graduate program at the Bard College Center [...]

  In her review of Kate Carr’s October 2009 exhibition at Box Gallery for Art In America, Harmony Hammond positioned the artist as a feminist foil to minimalism.     Although Carr’s work [...]

The Chinati Foundation holds its annual October open house weekend this Thursday through Sunday. You can read all about the museum-sponsored events on the foundation’s website, but [...]

For many travelers, the most convenient way to get to Marfa involves flying to El Paso and then driving three hours east. The short trip [...]

  Texas-based artist Peter Rand took footage from a Donald Judd exhibition at Tina Kim gallery in New York and overlaid sound from the Double [...]

  When it comes to making sculptures, Matt Wedel likes to keep it real.  “I am interested in the work not trying to be an [...]

There’s one week left to see Native American Works on Paper at the El Paso Museum of Art. After five months of display, the exhibition in the museum’s [...]

    You’ve come to expect insightful commentary and hard-hitting reporting from No Country for Old Interns on Glasstire.com, and this post is no exception. [...]

    To create Timelapse: 54 Days, Lincoln Street, Marfa-based artist Martha Hughes completed 54 paintings of the same subject—her kitchen table. Over the course of [...]

The free summer programs for children offered by Ballroom Marfa and the Chinati Foundation make me wish I were a kid again. The programs involved absolutely no pipe cleaners [...]

Mona Garcia is exactly what non-Texans expect a Texan to be. A native Houstonian, she comes from oil and ranching families. She’s polite, but unafraid [...]

For those of you who watched Bravo’s Work of Art: The Next Great Artist, Peregrine Honig needs no introduction. If you didn’t watch, check out Keith Plocek’s weekly [...]

  No single person has left as indelible a mark on Marfa as Donald Judd. The Judd logo (see above) is plastered all over downtown. Take [...]

Last month I took a break from Marfa and traveled to New York to volunteer for a week at 101 Spring Street. The Judd Foundation recently finished de-installing [...]