It’s tough to make a living in Marfa; as the saying goes in this Texas town, where I’ve lived on and off since 2015, most people wear several hats. Someone may give tours at the Chinati or Judd ...

Without Ballroom Marfa, there might not be a Prada Marfa. But, the West Texas-based non-collecting museum is much more than its most infamous project. Over the past two decades, Ballroom Marfa has ...

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Out in West Texas, travelers will find an eclectic mix of small towns. Steeped in history, Marfa is home to about 2,000 people and serves as the county seat for Presidio County. It started as a water ...

Marfa, Texas has quite the fan base of visitors from near and far alike. The small desert town is big on culture and outdoor recreation and offers plenty of stellar events and activities. If you're ...

The artist turned the remote town of Marfa into a cultural pilgrimage site. Three decades after his death, the foundations charged with preserving his complicated legacy are debating how to move ...

No matter what you've heard about its art and architecture, the town of Marfa, Texas, still looks like classic ranch country. Apart from a cluster of cafés, hotels and homes, this land belongs to the ...

When the artist Donald Judd began buying up land in Marfa in the 1970s, he saw the sleepy West Texas town and its sweeping desert vistas as the perfect backdrop for his austere sculptures. In Marfa, ...

EL PASO - The Prada Marfa stands out, but not like the Italian luxury brand's stores in the world's major fashion capitals: It's surrounded by desolate prairie, alone in a plot of dirt along a rural ...

In his 1977 text on architecture and signage, Learning From Las Vegas, Robert Venturi argued against the vilification of commercial architecture and symbolism and made the then underrepresented case ...