"Chinati Weekend"

The opening weekend of Robert Irwin’s new project at the Chinati Foundation. For more information on the project, go here and here.

In the north gallery of Ballroom Marfa, artist Dan Colen waves his arms before a crowd, trying to explain three massive canvases that surround him.

We should all just relax, lie back, and enjoy our enrichmutainment.

If you’re not one of those people who stay in, turn off the porch light and pretend you’re not home when the doorbell rings, you might still be looking for…

Allison V. Smith, Godbolt, March 2007 Marfa Contemporary, a brand-new West Texas outpost of the Oklahoma City-based City Arts Center, which bills itself as “a nonprofit organization dedicated to encouraging creative…

The Judd Foundation has received a $300,000 grant from the Brown Foundation for repairs to Donald Judd’s Architecture Office building in Marfa. The foundation planning to restore all its desert-worn…

A lot of people claim to look at the glass as half-full. What you don’t hear is crowing about the half-empty glass. But with the exception of Larry David and…

Our best guesses for Fall 2010… Albany The Old Jail Art Center Harry Geffert September 25,  2010 – January 23, 2011 Harry Geffert is arguably the granddaddy of all those…

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 or Popsicle sticks, and no…

The Chinati Foundation is holding a weekend of festivities surrounding the re-opening of Donald Judd’s untitled concrete works in Marfa. With new footings and some surface restoration, the fifteen big…

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For one weekend only, The Chinati Foundation is hosting this exhibit of work by current artist-in-residence Adam Davies at the Locker Plant. "Adam Davies is a photographer whose work focuses…

Coinciding with Chinanti Open House Weekend, Ryder Jon Piotrs (RJP), the collaborative art group based in Lubbock, has taken their act (or more specifically, their converted 24 foot Ryder moving…

Lubbock I rolled into town around dinner time. Texas Tech’s Joe Arredondo met me at Café J, which he deemed "the only decent restaurant in town." Due to his persistent…

The Big Bend Sentinel has reported that the board of Chinati is deliberating whether to keep the Open House weekend as it is — the big weekend in Marfa has…

Ollier and inde/jacobs will donate a percentage of the sales on Open House weekend to the Chinati Foundation. Also don't miss the chance to see one of Judd's copper armchairs,…

This ain't the old Marfa Open House weekend when a handful of cognoscenti descended on Chinati then wandered aimlessly around the empty streets — Marfa keeps on growing, and this…

I’m not sure if during the Open House is the best time to visit Marfa. But then, I’m not sure when a best time might be. It definitely can be…

Big museums tend to have their shows planned out several years in advance; while some of the small artist-run spaces are lucky to know what’s happening next month. But we…

There’s a new non-profit in West Texas. The Ballroom comes slickly packaged, promising “visual art / performance / music / film and video” and is one of the hot tickets…