Border Crossings and the Transborder Biennial at the El Paso Museum of Art and Museo de Arte de Ciudad Juárez
June 27, 2018
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Border Crossings and the Transborder Biennial at the El Paso Museum of Art and Museo de Arte de Ciudad Juárez

Extending nearly 2,000 miles from the state of Texas, though Southwestern New Mexico, along the…

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Imaginary Concerts & Charged Objects: Marfa Myths/Hyperobjects at Ballroom Marfa
March 17, 2018
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Imaginary Concerts & Charged Objects: Marfa Myths/Hyperobjects at Ballroom Marfa

<em>Tierra. Sangre. Oro.:</em> Rafa Esparza at Ballroom Marfa
December 6, 2017
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Tierra. Sangre. Oro.: Rafa Esparza at Ballroom Marfa

An adobe brick archway made by artists Rafa Esparza and Beatriz Cortez reorients and frames…

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Oz and Odessa Collide: Kelly O’Connor at the Old Jail Art Center
September 20, 2017
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Oz and Odessa Collide: Kelly O’Connor at the Old Jail Art Center

Two hundred miles separate the West Texas towns of Albany and Odessa. Best known for…

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Disco Balls in the Desert and other Marfa Adventures
June 14, 2017
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Dance

Disco Balls in the Desert and other Marfa Adventures

When I saw that this year's Marfa Sounding focused on the great California-based legend and…

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Differences Intertwined: Teresa Margolles at UTEP Rubin Center for Visual Arts
February 12, 2017
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Differences Intertwined: Teresa Margolles at UTEP Rubin Center for Visual Arts

How might artists use their work to create connections across difference in these difficult times?…

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The Varieties of Experimental Experience: Soundings on Marfa Sounding
July 24, 2016
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Music

The Varieties of Experimental Experience: Soundings on Marfa Sounding

The thing about writing about “experimental music” is that the phrase “experimental music,” if it…

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Playing the Block: Maria Chavez at Marfa Myths
February 25, 2016
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Playing the Block: Maria Chavez at Marfa Myths

Marfa Myths is the devil-may-care response to the revelry of SXSW. Curated by Ballroom Marfa…

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Opera in the Desert: Fire Island Opera Festival in Marfa
December 16, 2015
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Opera in the Desert: Fire Island Opera Festival in Marfa

If you took the Santa Fe Opera’s summer performance schedule and, while you were busy…

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Curating in Texas
December 10, 2015
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Curating in Texas

Marfa Motion
May 13, 2015
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Marfa Motion

Marfa Live Arts presents the Lower Left Performance Collective in Secondary Surface Rendered

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Uniting past, present and future
March 6, 2015
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Art

Uniting past, present and future

Clear Eyes, Full Arts, Can’t Lose
March 30, 2014
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West Texas

Clear Eyes, Full Arts, Can’t Lose

Kaleidoscopic Symmetry
March 30, 2014
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Kaleidoscopic Symmetry

On March 29th, Leslie Wilkes opens her solo exhibition Optic Verve at Women & Their…

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Sites of Cinema
February 3, 2014
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Sites of Cinema

We know that every picture tells a story. But sometimes it’s easy to take for…

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Alyce Santoro: Delicate Empiricist
October 25, 2013
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Alyce Santoro: Delicate Empiricist

Artist Alyce Santoro believes that everyone is endowed equally with the ability to imagine. It…

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