Events

The second Marfa Architecture & Design Symposium explores the art of desert living in Marfa.  Speakers will showcase the creativity, imagination and restoration that desert living can require.  The weekend includes lectures and home visits. Friday, Nov. 1, 10 a.m. – 4 p.m. Considering Climate and Culture: Gary Cunningham Case Study – They Said It […]

In this documentary, made in 2013 and directed by Peat Duggins, a pair of urbanites set out on a 4000-mile cross-continental bicycle ride in search of the last wild place in America, to their dismay, they get exactly what they asked for.

Allana Mitchell, environmental activist, writer

Join CineMarfa as they welcome film-makers Faythe Levine and Sam Macon, and show their award-winning documentary. There was a time, as recently as the 1980s, when storefronts, murals, banners, barn signs, billboards, and even street signs were all hand-lettered with brush and paint.  But, like many skilled trades, the sign industry has been overrun by […]

1pm Donald Judd; Printmaker;  Brenda Danilowitz, Chief Curator, Josef and Anni Albers Foundation 2:30pm On Albrecht Durer (1471-1528); Francesca Consagra, Senior Curator, Prints and Drawings and European Paintings, Blanton Museum of Art 4pm Preview / Review; Artists Robert Irwin and Zoe Leonard discuss new work for Chinati, with Lynn Cooke and Rob Weiner

Sasha Pirker, current artist-in-residence at the Chinati Foundation, will be screening her experimental film works.  Sasha’s work for film engages the relationship between architecture and a sense of place.

Pitchfork describes this one-man act as someone who “shares qualities and a scene with acts like How to Dress Well, Games, and soul-aspiring indie bands from Bon Iver to Yeasayer … but Autre Ne Veut has something special.  For one thing, every song on his self-titled debut is a marvel, each in its own way.  […]

Nick Turse; political essayist and author

The second annual meeting of Fieldwork Marfa

Widely admired Polish translator Bill Johnston will be joining us for a reading from his work which includes translations for the novels of Magdalena Tulli, Anderjez Stasiuk,  Stefan Żeromski,  Wiesław Myśliwski, and many others. In addition to many other honors, Johnston has been recently awarded the PEN Translation Prize and the Best Translated Book award […]

Award winning poet Joanna Klink will be reading from her work.  Her most recent books are “Circadian” and “Raptus”, both published by Penguin. You can read her poem Auroras here.

Ballroom Marfa is pleased to present a lecture by Michael Corris of The Dallas Collective, creators of Open Studio: Every Person is a Special Kind of Artist, with Baggage, a Texas Biennial Commissioned Project on display at Ballroom Marfa, Sep 14 – Nov 9, 2013

Chinati Foundation Artist-in-Residence Jered Sprecher will talk about his work.  He describes himself as a “hunter, gatherer” in relation to the visual world.  In his own words, “My work is based in an eclectic aesthetic.  My paintings extract elements from the high and low of visual culture.  This culture and crush of images is in […]

A Marfa tradition lives on!  Open call for anyone wanting to write, direct, act.  You will have 24 hours in which to get your production together, at the end of which all plays are performed.  It’s a classic.  Watch local media for the call-to-entry.

The Texas Lyceum group will bring its members to Marfa for a weekend of private meetings and events, including two forums and a film presentation on Friday morning in the Theater.