The Marfa Triptych is three portraits of West Texas as envisioned by Austin-based composer Graham Reynolds. The second composition, The Desert, is for layered piano, a production that uses means both digital and site-specific to process the acoustic instrument’s sounds and will take place at the Overlook at Mimms Ranch, Marfa, Texas.
Organized in conjunction with Whitechapel Gallery, London, Ballroom Marfa is pleased to present the sixth season of Artists’ Films International, a program that showcases international artists working with film, video and animation. This year Ballroom Marfa will feature the work of Nicole Miller.
Marfa Myths is a four-day festival of music, cinema, and visual art in the high desert grasslands of Far West Texas. Presented by Ballroom Marfa and Mexican Summer, the festival enters its third year in 2016.
Ballroom Marfa presents an exhibition of new work by artist Sam Falls opening March 13, 2015.
Ballroom Marfa is proud to present legendary songwriter Steve Earle and his band the Dukes at the Crowley Theater on June 14. The Mastersons open.
DJ Camp is back! As part of Camp Summer Shakeup, Ballroom Marfa presents its popular week-long DJ Camp from June 29 – July 3 with instructor Javier Arredondo.
Ballroom Marfa presents Desert Surf Films - a program curated by Executive Director Susan Sutton - on Friday and Saturday, August 28-29, at 8:30pm in the Ballroom Marfa courtyard.
Following the reception for Äppärät on Friday, September 25 we'll be hosting a DJ set from Mike Simonetti in the Ballroom Marfa courtyard.
Äppärät, opening at Ballroom Marfa on September 25, 2015, is about the mammalian hand, and the tools it touches, holds and uses. Taking its title from the name of a fictional post-iPhone device at the center of Gary Shteyngart’s 2010 near-future novel Super Sad True Love Story, Äppärät is concerned with labour, play and the uncertain zone between the two; with the extension of the body and the self, through technologies ancient and contemporary; with compulsion; and with death.
Organized in conjunction with Whitechapel Gallery, London, Ballroom Marfa is pleased to present the 2015 season of Artists’ Film International, a program that showcases international artists working in film and animation. This year Ballroom Marfa will feature the work of Los Angeles-based filmmaker Brigid McCaffrey in a weekend of screenings, discussions and public walks in Marfa and the Big Bend.
Marfa Myths is a four-day festival of music, cinema, and visual art in the high desert grasslands of Far West Texas. Presented by Ballroom Marfa and Mexican Summer, the festival enters its third year in 2016.
In March of 2016 Ballroom Marfa will open After Effect a group exhibition offering new interpretations of landscape, sublimity, and spirituality. The program will feature Dan Colen; Loie Hollowell; key works by Emil Bisttram, Raymond Jonson, Agnes Pelton, Florence Miller Pierce, and Stuart Walker of the Transcendental Painting Group; an animated film by Oskar Fischinger; and an installation by Arturo Bandini.
As part of Marfa Dialogues/Houston, Lucky Dragons, an experimental music group from Los Angeles, will perform a site-specific work that features a collaboration with Houston-based vocalists, arranged alongside an array of environmental field recordings and live electronics; a composition that lyrically speaks to biodiversity, human ecological impact and climate change as a loss of complexity in a moment of transition.
Ballroom Marfa, FotoFest International and the Public Concern Foundation will bring Marfa Dialogues to Houston in March 2016 as part of the FotoFest 2016 Biennial. Join us for MD/HOU as we consider the scale of climate change from the perspective of artistic practice, public policy, critical theory, and environmental science.
Bitchin Bajas returns to Marfa for an evening of kaleidoscopic psychedelia and collective good vibes in the Ballroom courtyard. Bitchin Bajas is the project of Cooper Crain, Dan Quinlivan and Rob Frye. Using a combination of synthesizers, guitars, flutes and saxophones, the trio conjures an otherworldly sound informed by the hypnotic rhythms of Krautrock, the scintillating guitar work of Robert Fripp, and the longform mysticism of classic New Age cassette tapes.
Lecture Ballroom Marfa hosted a lecture by artist Mary Weatherford, “Agnes Pelton and the American Transcendental” to complement After Effect, an exhibition in Ballroom’s galleries. The lecture took place at the Crowley Theater in Marfa, TX. A painter herself, Weatherford spoke on the work of Agnes Pelton, a member of the historical Transcendental Painting Group […]
DJ Camp is back! As part of Camp Summer Shakeup, Ballroom Marfa presents its popular week-long DJ Camp from June 27 – 30 with instructor DJ Bigface.
This exhibition features newly-commissioned work from artist collective the Institute for New Feeling (IfNf), including the video nominated by Ballroom Marfa for the 2016 season of Artists’ Film International (AFI). he IfNf project will be complemented by two micro-exhibitions hosted by Arturo Bandini in Ballroom’s courtyard. These distinct projects will both respond to the theme of AFI 2016: technology.
In November 2016, Austin-based composer Graham Reynolds returns to Marfa for the final installment of The Marfa Triptych: the chamber opera Pancho Villa From a Safe Distance.
Ballroom Marfa is pleased to announce Grey Goo Gardens, the last of four exhibitions conceived for Arturo Bandini's year-long installation in Ballroom's courtyard.
