This coming weekend, October 6-8, hundreds of patrons, collectors, artists, and art lovers will descend on the small West Texas town of Marfa for the Chinati Foundation’s annual open house…
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In a talk yesterday at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Solange Knowles described working with art institutions as feeling that they think “you should just be happy to be…
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As Glasstire reported a couple of months ago, Solange Knowles will soon be performing in Marfa at the Chinati Foundation. The Houston native musician and performance artist first debuted “Scales,”…
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10 students at Marfa ISD with help from Sally Beauvais, Zoe Kurland, and Marfa Public Radio put together a wonderful 30 minute podcast for the KRTS Youth Media Project about…
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Marfa artist Ann Marie Nafziger, who received her MFA degree in painting from the University of Houston in 2008, ran for mayor of Marfa, the West Texas town that most…
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Ariane Roesch interviews artists living and working in Marfa, Texas.
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Interviews with the smitten crowd at Made in Marfa during the 2016 Chinati weekend.
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An announcement came through Facebook today that after two years of development, Bike Marfa is up and running. This bike-share program/app in the art-pilgrimage town right now boasts 14 brand-spanking…
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The show: Project Marfa The venue: Octavia Art Gallery The city: Houston The date: July 8 Photographs by Lizette Belen Soto …
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“Transparent” Creator to Make Pilot Set in Marfa: “I Love Dick”
by Paula Newtonby Paula NewtonAmazon Studios has given a pilot order to I Love Dick, a half-hour comedy pilot directed and executive produced by Transparent creator Jill Soloway, according to Deadline.com. Based on Kris…
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Squat a House in Marfa; Invite the Public to Look at Some Art This Sunday
by Glasstireby GlasstireAn abandoned house on the edge of Marfa is now an ad-hoc art space founded by local artists Daniel Chamberlin and Tyler Spurgin, and on Sunday, October 25 there will be…
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Christina Rees and Brandon Zech chat with art pilgrims and natives in Marfa during Chinati Weekend, October 2015. Tequila and prickly pear Jell-O shots abound.
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Christina Rees and Rainey Knudson count down this week's picks. There's a flying weenie in there somewhere.
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Marfa visitors and residents know that Marfa is bigger than Marfa, bigger than Chinati and the Judd Foundation, bigger than Big Bend—it’s the whole West Texas sense of independence, self-reliance,…
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Dispatch from Marfa: Tim Crowley, Marfa’s own BMOC (philanthropist/owner of the Crowley Theater/former president of the Chinati Foundation), is in the process of building a new four-story, 55-room hotel in…
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California artist Robert Irwin’s permanent piece for the old hospital building at Fort D.A. Russell in Marfa has been in the works for years, but as it nears actual construction,…
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I’ve certainly noticed a “go with the flow” attitude for Chinati Weekend in not fighting all the artists’ love and regard for the local landscape. I, too, went with the flow.
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Robert Irwin, 86 year old California light-and-space artist has finalized plans for a 10,000 s.f. building at the Chinati Foundation in Marfa with the help of Vernon and Amy Faulconer…
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Read this week's list here, or watch as Glasstire Editor Bill Davenport and Founder Rainey Knudson discuss it on video.
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The "expanded field," literally: Tones' pieces make open space for viewers to enter or they smoosh a pair of shoes under a large rock.