By Bill Davenport on December 1, 2012
Second only to Halloween as an art-saturated holiday, the end of each year is an orgy of group gift shows, holiday decorating events, and year-end pleas from nonprofits happy to help tax-dodging donors. Here’s an incomplete roundup of upcoming seasonal happenings around the state:. I’ll be updating as we check off the last few weeks [...]
Posted in Houston Artletter | Tagged 500X, Chinati Foundation, craftidote, gallery black lagoon, holiday shows, Marfa, orange show |
By GT contributors on September 6, 2012
Glasstire contributors offer up their picks for Fall 2012! AUSTIN Emily Roysdon: Pause Pose Discompose Visual Arts Center September 21 – December 8, 2012 Super smart curator and art historian Andy Campbell invited New York- and Stockholm-based artist Emily Roysdon to take over the VAC’s Vaulted Gallery for the fall semester. I first heard of Roysdon in [...]
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By Bill Davenport on August 23, 2012
Pop star Beyoncé made a road trip to West Texas, and took photos. Endless bloggging and re-blogging ensued, including a pithy observation from the Gawker’s Calty Weaver: “The magical thing about Texas is that everything bright-colored becomes Art against the state’s washed-out sandscape backdrop.”
Posted in Newswire | Tagged beyonce, calty weaver, gawker, Marfa, perez hilton |
By Bill Davenport on August 6, 2012
Noting the “almost half dozen features” published in the NY Times about Marfa in the past three years, NPR‘s Neda Ulaby joins the scrum, outlining the tiny town’s makeover as an art mecca. Always even-handed, the piece contrasts the undeniable economic benefits to the local economy with muted naysaying from old-time townies and a “What [...]
Posted in Newswire | Tagged donald judd, Marfa, marfa book co., neda ulaby, npr |
By Bill Davenport on May 6, 2012
Gerald Peters Gallery of New York and Santa Fe is opening a branch in Marfa, under the direction of their director of contemporary art, Mary Etherington. The new outpost marks the return to Texas (albeit a remote and windy corner) for the gallery, which Mr. Peters began in Dallas in 1986. For years one of [...]
Posted in Newswire | Tagged ashley tatum, gerald peters gallery, Marfa, mary etherington |
By Kelly Klaasmeyer on April 23, 2012
At least one person in the crowd at the opening of John Waters’ exhibition “Neurotic” at McClain Gallery appeared to be angling to be the next Divine. Waters was in attendance, wearing a natty blue suit with stripes “painted” across it. The work he presented was as sly and smartass as his pencil-thin mustache. His [...]
Posted in 350 Words, Article, Review, Uncategorized | Tagged elizabeth taylor, John Waters, Marfa, McClain Gallery, Neurotic, tom cruise |
By Bill Davenport on March 6, 2012
The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette ran a short feature about Marfa in today’s paper, and though Judd, Chinati, and modern art art all prominent themes, it’s nice that the Mystery Lights, Marfa’s other mystic, transcendent tourist experience get a paragraph as well.
Posted in Newswire | Tagged chinati, judd, Marfa, mystery lights |
By Bill Davenport on January 9, 2012
The Real Artists of Marfa/Foundation for Jammable Resources is four guys who moved to Marfa about five years ago; one from Alpine, one From Marathon, one from Austin, and one from California, just as the budding service industry supporting the budding art/industrial complex began requiring more educated low-level employees than the local population could supply. [...]
Posted in Newswire | Tagged foundation for jammable resources, jeff elrod, Marfa, rooster |
By Bill Davenport on December 22, 2011
The Master of Mashed Metal, the Car-avaggio of Crushed Steel, relentlessly lowbrow and matter of fact about his work despite years of international acclaim, John Chamberlain has died at his home in Shelter Island, NY at age 84. Chamberlain took Duchamp’s anything-can-be-art promise literally, fusing pop art’s agressive contemporariness, Duchampian readymadiness, and poetic abstract expressioniness [...]
Posted in Newswire | Tagged chinati, john chamberlain, Marfa |
By Bill Davenport on December 12, 2011
That void-within-a-void that is the Winter Holiday Break in Marfa has a new bright spot: Chinati invites all students Pre-School (3 and 4 years) through 8th grade to our FREE Winter Art Classes during their holiday break, Dec 27-30. Beginning with a visit to Chinati’s Jean Arp exhibition, students experiment in the ArtLab with different [...]
Posted in Newswire | Tagged children's art classes, chinati, Marfa |
By Bill Davenport on December 7, 2011
Jet on out to Marfa this weekend, Dec 9-11; LAND (Los Angeles Nomadic Division) is hosting a celebration of its citywide exhibition Nothing Beside Remains, a suite of eight commissioned public projects set to open in September, but already installed. Artists from Los Angeles use Marfa as a blank canvas to “address the beauty and [...]
Posted in Newswire | Tagged los angeles nomadic diviion, Marfa, nothing beside remains, shamim momin |
By Bill Davenport on October 3, 2011
Gas up the car and pick up some lip balm, it’s Open House weekend at the Chinati Foundation in Marfa. This year, their 25th anniversary, is marked by two special exhibtions: a series of glass pagodas from noted photographer of nothingness Hiroshi Sugimoto and sculptures by Jean Arp, noted sculptor of things that might be [...]
Posted in Newswire | Tagged Chinati Foundation, el cosmico, hiroshi sugimoto, julie speed, Marfa, Santa Fe |
By GT contributors on September 6, 2011
Here they are, sorted by city, our picks for the best shows in Texas this fall! ALBANY Eric Zimmerman: Sixteen Tons The Old Jail Art Center September 24, 2011 – January 22, 2012 Hey North Texas: if you missed Eric Zimmerman’s recent shows at the Austin Museum of Art, Art Palace Gallery, or the Southwest [...]
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By Bill Davenport on August 11, 2011
A $120,000 grant from the federal Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) will enable the Chinati Foundation to enhance its education, public program, and outreach efforts to benefit Marfa and the surrounding communities. Thanks to the grant, events at Chinati will remain free, efforts at the once hermetic institution to reach a broader, younger [...]
Posted in Newswire | Tagged alpine, Chinati Foundation, donald judd, ft davis, imls grant, Marfa |
By Bill Davenport on June 5, 2011
Fieldwork: Marfa, a researcher-in-residence program organized jointly through three european art schools, ESBA Nantes Métropole, HEAD – Genève, and Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam, will send six visitors to West Texas to practice art in public space, research critical approaches to landscape/borders (a lot of those in Marfa) and artistic projects based on field investigation [...]
Posted in Newswire | Tagged chinati ballroom, chinati gerrit reitveld, fieldwork marfa, Marfa, marfa clui los angeles, marfa nantes |
By Matt Jacobs on May 30, 2011
As the setting for a number of films including Giant, There Will Be Blood, and No Country for Old Men it only makes sense that Marfa would have a film festival all it’s own, right? Cinemarfa is the name of the festival, and it’s a unique one at that. Unlike traditional film festivals Cinemarfa [...]
Posted in The Marfan | Tagged Cinemarfa, film festival, Marfa, No Wave |
By Matt Jacobs on April 11, 2011
Marfa is a town overflowing with renovated spaces. Gas stations have become restaurants, textile buildings are now theaters, and even the Chinati Foundation’s campus was once an active military base. Exhibitions 2D falls in line with this theme as a house-turned-exhibition space and Dennis Dickinson, the friendly proprietor, is more than happy to show you [...]
Posted in The Marfan | Tagged exhibtions 2D, John Robert Craft, Jonathan Dankenbring, Marfa, Susan York |
By Matt Jacobs on March 22, 2011
As far as the art world is concerned, it’s difficult if not downright impossible to mention the town of Marfa without mentioning Donald Judd. Whether you love him, hate him or fall somewhere in between; you do have to admit that Judd played a large role in making this town into the art capital of [...]
Posted in The Marfan | Tagged Ballroom Marfa, Chinati Foundation, Marfa |