Marfa Magic Propagates in Pittsburgh
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.
Car-avaggio of American Sculpture John Chamberlain is dead at 84
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 [...]
Arp Art For Kids: Chinati Fills Winter Break With Children’s Art Classes
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 [...]
Kellein heralded in Marfa
The Chinati foundation is celebrating its new director, Thomas Kellein on Tuesday, March 29. Refreshments will be served amid the John Chamberlain sculptures from 5:30-7pm. Kellein, a Judd scholar, begn work in January, succeeding Dr. Marianne Stockebrand, who retired last year. He will be featured on KRTS Marfa Public Radio’s “Talk at Ten” on Tuesday, [...]