Author: Matt Jacobs

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CineMarfa Takes Off

  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 [...]

Louis Black introduces "The Whole Shooting Match"

Feeding Frenzy (for a Good Cause)

  Word spreads fast here in Marfa. Whether it’s a concert, play, or art opening, it’s not uncommon to see almost all of Marfa’s artistic community gathering at whatever event is happening that evening. This was the case last Saturday at the Marfa Book Company where the Dersu Collective exhibited and sold works to raise [...]

Home-made cardboard outside the Marfa Book Company's Gallery. Image courtesy Nick Terry.

Where the Art Lives: Exhibitions 2D

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 [...]

Foreground: xast iron sculpture. Background: a related wood print made using the iron sculptures. Image courtesy Exhibitions 2D

Howdy

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 [...]

Donald Judd, 15 untitled works in concrete, 1980-1984, detail.   Permanent collection, the Chinati Foundation, Marfa, Texas, photograph by Douglas Tuck, 2009..