The far West Texas town of Marfa — population 1,500 or so — first gained national notoriety as a desert art colony. Today you ...
As a longtime Marfa resident, I’ve heard plenty of theories about why our high desert town is so beloved. Some people think it’s the quality of light; or the expansive Trans-Pecos sky; or the ...
What if art could rise from the desert and transform a quiet Texas town into a global stage? Marfa sits in the remote high desert, where minimalist installations meet endless skies, and mystery ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It sticks out like a sore thumb: a tiny luxury boutique on the side of a barren stretch of highway in Far West Texas. The tiny ...
Deurbanization is everywhere these days. The cool kids move to Brooklyn. Brooklyn gets lame and they move to Detroit. Or Omaha. Or, in extreme cases, to the most desolate place on earth, Downtown Los ...
Heading west out of San Antonio can seem sparse. However, if you venture off the interstate, travelers can find two nat ...
At first glance, it’s a rather unmarkable, plain-looking, one-story building that sits in an unadorned lot in the dry West Texas town of Marfa. It has off-white adobe walls and a metal roof. On the ...
When Playboy Enterprises—yes, that Playboy Enterprises—erected a forty-foot-tall sculpture near Marfa, it was convinced the town would appreciate its take on the local art scene. Instead it started a ...
WHO: Community activists in Marfa, who are celebrating a win after nearly two decades of advocacy to preserve the historic Blackwell School—and all Texans, who now have a new National Park Service ...
"He went to the property, he looked at the mountain range and he said, 'My God, this is it,'" Farley recounted in an interview last week. She is now representing the same 10 acres—with the house ...
A West Texas school built in 1909 for Mexican and Mexican American students as part of "separate but equal" education segregation was designated Wednesday as a national park. U.S. Secretary of the ...