Ballroom Marfa is pleased to announce the opening of Immaterial, an exhibition that will focus on the physical and psychic tensions between form, color, and space across varied visual and structural mediums. Open October 2, 2010 - February 20, 2011.
Join us for a live music performance by Ty Segall, followed by a DJ set by Boom Bip, on October 2, 2010, in honor of our Immaterial opening.
On Saturday, November 20, 2011, Ballroom Marfa presents The Rat Trap Ball featuring Austin band, The Royal Butchers. It's a dance party!
For our second annual New Year's film program, we'll show Jean Cocteau's avant-garde film The Blood of a Poet, accompanied by a live score by Eluvium, at the Masonic Lodge on January 1, 2011.
Please join us this Monday, January 10, 2011, for a panel discussion, "Red-Haired Stepchild: Making Visual Art in New Orleans," with curator Dan Cameron and artists Skylar Fein, Srdjan Loncar, and Dan Tague, from our upcoming exhibition, The World According to New Orleans. The Masonic Lodge, 6 pm.
Please join us for a special performance by three-time Grammy Award-winning solo guitarist, Sharon Isbin, on Monday, February 14, 2011 at the Crowley Theater. Doors open at 6 pm; show begins at 6:30 pm.
We are honored to host visiting guitarist Sharon Isbin at Marfa Jr/Sr High School as part of our ongoing program, Making Art Work, on 14 February 2011.
Join us this spring break for our Student Haiku Poetry Workshop, hosted by visiting artist Dan Tague and arts educator Mallory Jones, from 15-17 March 2011.
Join us for a live music performance by Little Freddie King, on 18 March 2011, as part of our The World According to New Orleans opening weekend.
In the spring of 2011, Ballroom Marfa will collaborate with curator Dan Cameron on the exhibition, The World According to New Orleans, which focuses on artists living and working in New Orleans, LA.
On March 26, 2011, please join us for performances of The Reading, a professionally staged screenplay presentation that spotlights a winning script from the prestigious 2010 Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting.
On April 18, 2011, our Texas Biennial artist Alyce Santoro will visit Marfa Jr/Sr High School as part of Making Art Work.
Ballroom Marfa is pleased to participate in this year's Texas Biennial with the artist Alyce Santoro, who will present her project, The Synergetic Omni-Solution, 29 April to 01 May 2011.
Ballroom Marfa and Marfa Book Company are proud to present an evening with the Cass McCombs Band on Friday, 8 July 2011, at the Crowley Theater in Marfa, Texas. Pink Nasty opens the show. Doors at 8:30 pm; tickets $10.
Grouper Limited Edition 7-inch Ballroom hosted musician Liz Harris, aka Grouper, for a recording residency at Ballroom Marfa. During her stay, she made field recordings and recorded tracks at Marfa Recording Company, which appear on this limited-edition 7-inch (only 500 pressed). Side A is titled "Water People" and Side B is "Moving Machine." The 7-inch […]
The first in our lecture series features artist Kathleen Shafer, who will speak about her current work, which concerns airfields, airspace, Marfa's military history, the repurposing of spaces, and an examination of what constitutes the concepts of place and space within the fields of geography and art.
For the second year, Ballroom Marfa will present its popular week-long DJ Camp from July 18 - July 22, 2011 with instructor Faith Gay.
On August 8, 2011, Austin three-piece eets Feats will be stopping through town for one night only and blessing us with their awesome rock sounds. Show at 8:30 pm outside the Thunderbird Lounge.
Ballroom Marfa will continue its collaboration with Whitechapel Gallery, London, and nine other international art spaces for the third installment of the film and video program, Art in the Auditorium.
Explosions In the Sky play some of the most passionate, powerful instrumental music you will ever hear. Equal parts romance and tragedy, their beautiful melodies have the tendency to ignite into head-spinning walls of noise. Twin Sister opens. Doors at 7 pm.
