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Art, Mystery Lights Keep West Texas Town Weird
[Ft. Worth Star Telegram] ... Photographer Jill Johnson and I are in Marfa mostly because of Jill. She loves this place, with its clean desert air, tremendous bookstore, minimalist art galleries, renovated adobes. I am a little jaded. I lived in Santa Fe in the early '80s and witnessed its transformation from a beautiful, centuries-old cultural crossroads into a plywood-coyote-bedecked attraction with a chain ice cream store on the historic Plaza.
Could it happen here? Some of the elements are in place: desert, adobe, art, great sunsets, simplicity, serenity. In fact, some of the same transplanted Easterners are here -- they left Santa Fe and moved to Marfa. The price of a quaint, crumbling adobe is climbing faster than a lizard up a tree -- from around $20,000 decades ago to as much as $300,000-$400,000 now.
But Marfa is pretty remote. It's a long day's drive from the Metroplex, and three hours from the airport in Midland. The only thing it's really on the way to is the Big Bend, a good place to go when you really need to be in the middle of big, gorgeous nowhere.
On the surface, Marfa looks like any other small Texas town. Then you find out about great New York-style pizza; an Andy Warhol hung in giant, otherwise empty room that is randomly open for viewing; world-class sculptures standing around out in the pasture; a never-to-open Prada store sitting in the middle of the desert and planned to become a ruin (it's an art installation). . . .
Thompson says, "So far, Marfa is intact. We don't have any of those tacky, craftsy stores."...
On the Screen at the Library
Monday 8:30 - Heights
Tuesday 8:00 - The Squid and the Whale
Wednesday 8:00 - Good Night, and Good Luck
Coming Soon: Paradise Now, Loggerheads, A History Of Violence, Bob Dylan: No Direction Home
20th-Floor Views for Judd at Christie's
[Artnet] New York’s coolest new exhibition space is the 20th floor of the Simon & Schuster Building at 1230 Avenue of the Americas in Rockefeller Center, where Christie’s New York has put on view 36 Donald Judd works that go on the block on May 9-10, 2006. Installed in a raw, cement-floored office space flooded with natural light (and with striking vistas of midtown Manhattan), the works range from rare early pieces from 1962-63, fabricated in 1988 for Judd’s Whitney Museum retrospective, to a large Plexi and plywood stack piece made a year before the artist’s death in 1994...
Coen Brothers to Film in Marfa
The Production Manager for the Coen Brothers' new film based on Cormac McCarthy's last book, No Country for Old Men, has been scouring Marfa for shoot locations. Talk has it it will star Tommy Lee Jones, and possibly Joaquin Phoenix, Barry Tubb (who was in Top Gun and is from Snyder), and Heath Ledger. Filming may be out at Liz Lambert's bunkhouse north of Marfa, Fowlkes Ranch, as well as other locations. We hear that "all external shots" will be filmed here. The story follows a Vietnam vet who stumbles upon a heroin deal gone bad. He then becomes the hunted, as the various interested parties search for their dough. It takes place in 1980. (thanks Marge)
DeGuerin: Meetings Law Muzzles Pols
Ann Arbor, MI: Big-Picture Minimalism
[Ft. Worth Star Telegram] ... Photographer Jill Johnson and I are in Marfa mostly because of Jill. She loves this place, with its clean desert air, tremendous bookstore, minimalist art galleries, renovated adobes. I am a little jaded. I lived in Santa Fe in the early '80s and witnessed its transformation from a beautiful, centuries-old cultural crossroads into a plywood-coyote-bedecked attraction with a chain ice cream store on the historic Plaza.
Could it happen here? Some of the elements are in place: desert, adobe, art, great sunsets, simplicity, serenity. In fact, some of the same transplanted Easterners are here -- they left Santa Fe and moved to Marfa. The price of a quaint, crumbling adobe is climbing faster than a lizard up a tree -- from around $20,000 decades ago to as much as $300,000-$400,000 now.
But Marfa is pretty remote. It's a long day's drive from the Metroplex, and three hours from the airport in Midland. The only thing it's really on the way to is the Big Bend, a good place to go when you really need to be in the middle of big, gorgeous nowhere.
On the surface, Marfa looks like any other small Texas town. Then you find out about great New York-style pizza; an Andy Warhol hung in giant, otherwise empty room that is randomly open for viewing; world-class sculptures standing around out in the pasture; a never-to-open Prada store sitting in the middle of the desert and planned to become a ruin (it's an art installation). . . .
Thompson says, "So far, Marfa is intact. We don't have any of those tacky, craftsy stores."...
On the Screen at the Library
Monday 8:30 - Heights
Tuesday 8:00 - The Squid and the Whale
Wednesday 8:00 - Good Night, and Good Luck
Coming Soon: Paradise Now, Loggerheads, A History Of Violence, Bob Dylan: No Direction Home
20th-Floor Views for Judd at Christie's
[Artnet] New York’s coolest new exhibition space is the 20th floor of the Simon & Schuster Building at 1230 Avenue of the Americas in Rockefeller Center, where Christie’s New York has put on view 36 Donald Judd works that go on the block on May 9-10, 2006. Installed in a raw, cement-floored office space flooded with natural light (and with striking vistas of midtown Manhattan), the works range from rare early pieces from 1962-63, fabricated in 1988 for Judd’s Whitney Museum retrospective, to a large Plexi and plywood stack piece made a year before the artist’s death in 1994...
Coen Brothers to Film in Marfa
The Production Manager for the Coen Brothers' new film based on Cormac McCarthy's last book, No Country for Old Men, has been scouring Marfa for shoot locations. Talk has it it will star Tommy Lee Jones, and possibly Joaquin Phoenix, Barry Tubb (who was in Top Gun and is from Snyder), and Heath Ledger. Filming may be out at Liz Lambert's bunkhouse north of Marfa, Fowlkes Ranch, as well as other locations. We hear that "all external shots" will be filmed here. The story follows a Vietnam vet who stumbles upon a heroin deal gone bad. He then becomes the hunted, as the various interested parties search for their dough. It takes place in 1980. (thanks Marge)
DeGuerin: Meetings Law Muzzles Pols
Ann Arbor, MI: Big-Picture Minimalism
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