Chamberlain Building Decrepit: Chinati Issues Plea for Fix-It Dollars
According to an email broadcast last week, The Chinati Foundation’s John Chamberlain Building needs roof repairs, the adobe and concrete walls need patching, and the Donald Judd-designed wooden doors and windows are rotting and need to be replaced. The Foundation is looking for year-end donations to help pay for the fixes, calling the former wool [...]
‘Twas the Month Before Christmas . . .
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 [...]
Chinati Community Spirit Sprouts New Garden: 100 Works in Arugula Now on View
A new community garden is growing at the Chinati Foundation out in Marfa, full of organic vegetables, flowers, and natural dye plants. Chinati staff, community volunteers, and area students involved in the museum’s education programs grew and shared newly harvested radishes, herbs and arugula at a garden social in June. Future programs are sprouting: a [...]
Chinati’s Newish Director Resigns, Staff to Soldier On at Fort DA Russell
Today the Chinati Foundation announced that Dr. Thomas Kellein has resigned from his position as Director, which he has held for only fifteen months. He has agreed to continue to serve the institution in the role of a consultant until September. “Dr. Kellein brought to Chinati a knowing and scholarly insight into the artist Donald [...]
Big Ol’ Horseshoe Getting Older, Chinati Seeking Donations to Restore Desert-Ravaged Oldenburg Monument
Since 1991, Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen’s Monument to the Last Horse has stood at the center of the Chinati collection, a bit of cornball figuration amid arid transcendentalism, a testament to both the history of Fort D.A. Russell and to the friendship between Donald Judd and the two artists. In 2012, Chinati will [...]
Margarita-Fueled Partying Vies With Minimalist Introspection at 25th Chinati Weekend in Marfa
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 [...]
Chinati Awarded Federal Grant for Education Programs
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 [...]
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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 [...]