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Fall Preview! Rainey Knudson, Christina Rees, and Brandon Zech do Glasstire's top picks for this fall.
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For the past few years, Austin-based composer Graham Reynolds has been working on The Marfa Triptych, a three-part project commissioned by Ballroom Marfa. Part one, a 14-piece band concert, premiered in November of 2013,…
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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.
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Rainey Knudson, Christina Rees, and Brandon Zech on the importance of a great installation, reaction shots, and a load of sad-but-gorgeous photographs.
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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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Everyone in the art world complains about the art world all the time: "We all hate the art world and we’re not part of the art world!"
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Atkins' work hooks us, and our hunger to realize his pattern of communication is engaged like a heat-seeking missile.
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This week, Christina Rees and Brandon Zech tackle mammalian hands, shiny crosses, and an original Texas Modernist. 1. Texas Moderns: BROR UTTER Old Jail Art Center (Albany) September 19 – February…
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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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Today Ballroom Marfa‘s board announced the hire of Laura Copelin as new associate curator. For the past four years she’s been developing exhibitions and programs for the Santa Monica Museum of Art.…
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For those who haven’t yet seen the latest issue of Vogue, there is a feature article on Ballroom Marfa’s new Executive Director Susan Sutton. Sutton, who assumed the position in…
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Fairfax Dorn, Ballroom Marfa‘s co-founder and outgoing executive director, is transitioning to Ballroom’s artistic director. Today the board has named Susan Sutton as its new executive director. Sutton comes to Marfa…
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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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By SARAH M. VASQUEZ of the Big Bend Sentinel (used by permission) MARFA – Ballroom Marfa’s much-anticipated drive-in theater project has been “indefinitely deferred,” or postponed. In a letter to…
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History is built from stories; Hubbard and Birchler ask us to pay attention to the role that filmmaking plays in its construction.
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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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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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Dallas, Dallas, Dallas: Three of a Kind for the Texas Center of Novel Projects
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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…