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 recaps on Hustletown, his Glasstire.com blog.…
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Theresa Bembnister
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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 a stroll along Highland Avenue,…
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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 Donald Judd’s former residence in…
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In March, April and May, Brooklyn-based artist Bill Saylor lived and worked in Marfa as a Chinati artist in residence. Saylor took full advantage of the cavernous studio space in the former Marfa…
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The easy availability of tin in the early 1800s led to the development of retablos, oil paintings on tin depicting Roman Catholic saints or holy people. The metal was cheap…
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Syzygy, an astronomy term used to describe the alignment of celestial bodies, is the title of Alex Marks’ first solo exhibit at the Marfa Book Company. His nomenclature makes sense:…
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Welcome to No Country For Old Interns, Glasstire’s new blog focusing on visual art in West Texas—specifically Marfa. Every blog worth reading has a FAQs or an “About Me” page, right? So form demands…
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When curator Alicia Ritson first watched Carta Abierta a Dr. Atl (An Open Letter to Dr. Atl) at the 2007 Venice Biennale, she knew right away she wanted to show…
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