Conceptual artist Mel Chin brings these two seemingly separate incidents together in his first animated film, "9-11/9-11, Chile/USA," a fiction that weaves the lives of a Santiago couple embroiled in the attack on Santiago 1973, with two young lovers in New York City, 2001.
Ballroom Marfa welcomes worldly chanteuse Keren Ann and gauzy pop duo Dean & Britta (formerly of Luna) to the Goode Crowley theater on February 22 for the second installment of its 2008 music program.
Too raucous to be neatly included with the current psychedelic-folk scene—and too resolutely underground to be commercial—San Francisco's the Dodos are anchored by furiously propulsive energy and indie-folk songwriting talent.
To inaugurate the opening of the visual arts exhibition Hello Meth Lab in the Sun, Brooklyn psychedelic/space-rock band, Psychic Ills, will perform at Ballroom’s Marfa’s Liberty Hall on Saturday 5th April, at 9pm.
Ballroom Marfa's Spring 2008 exhibition is a collaboration between three early career artists, Jonah Freeman, Justin Lowe, and Alexandre Singh.
In December 2007 Ballroom Marfa launched film.text.performance.film, a two-part program pairing seemingly disparate areas of contemporary cinematic practice of filmic performance and visual text.
Noted for her "power and introspection" (The New York Times) and "heart, intellect and fabulous technical resources" (Fanfare), pianist Sarah Rothenberg has one of the most distinguished and creative careers of her generation.
Irena Havlová and Vojtěch Havel, the duo who are The Havels, have been collaborating for more than 15 years, making music that has been described as “a duet between violoncello and piano taking place in a cathedral of sound.”
BALLROOM MARFA is proud to bring Balmorhea and Bexar Bexar to the Goode Crowley Theater on August 7th for an evening of idyllic instrumentals.
To celebrate the opening of The Marfa Sessions, Kurt Wagner of Lambchop will perform on Saturday, 27 September 2008, at the Capri in Marfa, Texas. DJ Damon Locks follows.
Independent curators Regine Basha, Rebecca Gates, and Lucy Raven will bring together fifteen artists with specific interests in sound work and its potential as a transgressive medium across place and geography.
Ballroom Marfa is thrilled to bring Brooklyn based noise-rock pop-punk duo, Japanther, back to Marfa for a special Halloween show, “The Dancing Mummies Curse."
This Saturday, 1 November, will mark the first installment of Ballroom Marfa’s month-long film and video series, Art in the Auditorium.
Ballroom Marfa wraps up our 2008 music season with a performance by Rolling Stone's 2008 songwriter of the year, Conor Oberst, performing with The Mystic Valley band. Opening set by the Felice Brothers and RIG 1.
Yacht kicks off our 2009 music season on January 31, 2009. White Rainbow opens!
Ballroom Marfa warmly welcomes to town the original outlaw-country musician hailing from Waco, Texas -- Billy Joe Shaver.
Ballroom Marfa is proud to be hosting Paul Villinski's Emergency Response Studio, a solar-powered, mobile artist's studio repurposed from a salvaged FEMA-style trailer.
Wild Combination pays homage to the inimitable Arthur Russell: avant-garde cellist, composer, singer, and disco artist.
On Saturday, May 9, 2009, Green Mountain's Super Earth mascot, along with representatives from Green Mountain, Ballroom Marfa, and members of the community were on hand to celebrate Ballroom Marfa's new solar panels.
In hosting Michael Almereyda as a filmmaker-in-residence, we put the spotlight on a unique force in American independent film and invite audiences to immerse themselves in a discussion with the artist as he walks us through a retrospective spanning two decades.
