marfa ii

We just figured out the view from our AirBnB.

​Yesterday Laura observed that perhaps all together, Marfa’s stores constituted the world’s largest contemporary art museum gift shop. Today we found she wasn’t wrong. Plus some clothing and obligatory western wear. (We are certain many visitors end up buying straw cowboy hats given the heat.) And a few nice galleries. We bought a small work by a local artist LéAna Clifton (https://leanaclifton.com/frequency-2019) . And Ballroom Marfa had some interesting work on exhibit and purple hats.

​We went out to Chinati to see the work not included on our guided tour tomorrow. Maybe it was the heat, but we both discovered we are not really Donald Judd fans. What does that mean for the next two days?

​We found our way to the historic and segregated Blackwell School (https://www.theblackwellschool.org) which served the Hispanic children of Marfa. It has been preserved thanks to the work of the school’s alumni and it was recently designated a National Historic Site. Today there was a Block Party to celebrate, which mean the site was busy and festive. It has such an interesting history and the community seems to have really come togther to celebrate it. It’s a great project. https://www.texasmonthly.com/being-texan/marfas-blackwell-school-has-a-painful-past-thats-why-the-town-wants-to-save-it/
 

Ended the day with a great Tex Mex dinner in a hole-in-the-wall, thanks to Yelp.