Deep Comedy is an exhibition of work by artists whose conceptual practices are underpinned by humor. Brought together by artist Dan Graham and independent curator Sylvia Chivaratanond, the works in Deep Comedy transform elements of the commonplace into playgrounds for amusement through a wide range of media including sculpture, video, installation, photography, and performance.
Opening weekend festivities for Deep Comedy culminate at Ballroom's Liberty Hall on Saturday, March 24th, 2007 with a rare live appearance from the composer, musician, and artist Sam Prekop.
Noted American singer-songwriter and guitarist Richard Buckner will play Liberty Hall this Sunday evening as part of Ballroom Marfa’s 2007 music series.
Indie wunderkind Jose Gonzalez was born to Argentinean parents and grew up in Gothenburg, Sweden with formal guitar studies and a family record collection that was equal parts bossa nova and Beatles.
Join us on April 28 for a performance by national treasure Mingo Saldivar, a master of the push-button accordion and one of norteno's living legends.
GLORIA is a new work by choreographer Maria Hassabi, created in collaboration with performers Hristoula Harakas and David Adamo, visual artist Scott Lyall, sound designer Jody Elff, and lighting designer Joe Levasseur.
On Saturday, May 12, Angela McCluskey and Paul Cantelon join forces for a rare and very special duo showcase at Ballroom's Liberty Hall.
The latest in our award-winning 2007 music series, BALLROOM MARFA welcomes Animal Collective and Sir Richard Bishop to Liberty Hall for an evening at the experimental bounds of pop music.
In honor of the
upcoming release of Allen's Best of the Sugar Hill Years CD retrospective,
he'll be reuniting with the Panhandle Mystery Band at Ballroom Marfa's
Liberty Hall for a special, one-off appearance on Saturday, July 7th.
Mika Tajima and her band, New Humans, will perform in Ballroom Marfa’s outdoor courtyard on the opening night of Every Revolution Is a Roll of the Dice, playing with a band and instruments on a white sand stage.
Every Revolution Is a Roll of the Dice is an exhibition of sculptural objects that, by way of their presentation, can be seen as actors on a stage.
The 2007 season continues with renowned classical pianist Bruce Levingston, who plays October 4, 2007.
Poster-making demonstration at Ballroom Marfa's Liberty Hall.
In collaboration with the Chinati Foundation, Judd Foundation, and board member Charles Attal, Ballroom Marfa proudly hosts Sonic Youth for the 2007 Open House weekend.
Ballroom Marfa is proud to present Boris with Damon and Naomi on October 18 at Liberty Hall.
Ballroom Marfa collaborates with artist Matthew Day Jackson to create a site-specific project in booth G2 at the NADA Art Fair for Miami Basel.
film.text.performance.film pairs two seemingly disparate areas of contemporary cinematic practice: filmic performance and visual text.
The MARFA BIG READ, the reading program initiated by the National Endowment for the Arts, kicks off on January 10 at Ballroom Marfa with performances by Leah McWilliams and San Antonio folk singer, Azul.
Ballroom Marfa kicks off the 2008 music season with a special solo acoustic concert by Texas singer-songwriter Robert Earl Keen.
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.
