Scheduled for April 25 - April 29, 2019, Marfa Myths' sixth year boasts the "most eclectic and electrifying" programming that the festival has seen yet.
"Ballroom Marfa"
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Stone Circle, commissioned by Ballroom Marfa, debuted during the April 29 full moon and will remain for at least five years, reports CultureMap Austin. Located near the Marfa Municipal Golf…
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“Eat, sleep, dub, repeat,” Marie sang, and the crowd sang back. This is Part Two of a two-part dispatch on this year's Marfa Myths.
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Brooklyn-based record label Mexican Summer and Texas artspace Ballroom Marfa have announced that their annual music and arts festival Marfa Myths is returning for its fifth year in 2018. The four-day…
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We headed out via I-10 for a weekend of transcendent music, provocative art, and the recurring experience of wondering whether you are actually seeing Father John Misty everywhere or whether there are just 35 dudes around you who all look exactly like Father John Misty.
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The annual Marfa Myths festival kicks off this Thursday and runs through the weekend, and one point of programming we like is Dirty Gay Movie Night at the Crowley Theater on…
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Marfa Myths is officially returning for its 4th year of music and art in the hight desert of West Texas. The four-day festival, put on by Ballroom Marfa and Brooklyn-based music…
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In its sixth year, CineMarfa continued building layers of connections upon its impressive, ongoing program through really smart and playful placement of our media mirrors.
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A weekend of dialogues about climate change and the enviornment. The programs are co-presented by Ballroom Marfa, FotoFest International and the Public Concern Foundation.
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Now in its third year, Marfa Myths will come to Marfa, TX on March 10–13. Curated by Brooklyn-based record label Mexican Summer and Ballroom Marfa, it’s referred to as a…
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… here’s one: Steve Earle is slated to play at the Crowley Theater on June 14. The great singer-songwriter (and soundtrack composer/actor/Renaissance man) Earle recently released his newest album Terraplane, and like his…
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The massive SXSW in Austin has led to a number of smaller overspill festivals in other Texas cities eager to take advantage of so many music acts passing through, and…
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On November 7, A little more than a week before his trial was set to begin in the 394th District Court of Jeff Davis County, Prada Marfa vandal Joe Magnano…
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When it’s a battle between Art and the State, it can get ugly. Max Ernst vs. the Gestapo. Robert Mapplethorpe vs. Senator Jesse Helms. Ai Weiwei vs. the Chinese government.…
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Joseph Magnano, the Waco artist behind the recent Prada Marfa vandalism, a project he calls TOMS Marfa, has released an open letter to the art world. In it, Magnano speaks about…
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News
It’s Complicated: “Prada Marfa Explainer” on Why it’s OK to Maintain Artwork
by Lucia Simekby Lucia SimekAfter last week’s media blitz about the most recent defacing/art-application (up to you!) to Prada Marfa by an artist/vandal (also, up to you!) called 9271977, Ballroom Marfa, the art organization tasked…
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Ballroom Marfa and the Art Production Fund plan to clean up and restore recent unauthorized alterations by vandal/installation artist 927 1977 to Prada Marfa, Elmgreen and Dragset’s meant-to-be-destroyed fake shoe…
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An artist known as 9271977 is likely behind the vandalism that befell Prada Marfa Sunday morning, the Big Bend Sentinel reports. Various clues left on the scene led reporters at…
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Join Ballroom Marfa this Saturday evening for the first installment of Graham Reynolds’ Marfa Triptych, a musical composition over three years in the making. Part One: Country and Western Big Band…
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Elmgreen and Dragset, the artist duo behind Prada Marfa, have released a statement with their thoughts on the Texas Department of Transportation’s decision to declare the installation illegal. There are…