Marfa Myths 2014
Marfa, TexasMexican Summer and Ballroom Marfa are coming together for a day-long celebration full of music and good vibes at the El Cosmico campground in Marfa, Texas on Saturday, March 8, 2014. Free. Doors open at noon.
Mexican Summer and Ballroom Marfa are coming together for a day-long celebration full of music and good vibes at the El Cosmico campground in Marfa, Texas on Saturday, March 8, 2014. Free. Doors open at noon.
Marfa Book Company, Interdimensional Music and Ballroom Marfa present the excellent duo, NEW BUMS, consisting of cult-heroes Ben Chasny and Donovan Quinn, formerly of Six Organs of Admittance and Sky Green Leopards, respectively. Admission is $5.
As part of the Presidio County Fair, Ballroom Marfa is proud to present a free concert by The Doodlin' Hogwallops on April 12, 2014 in Marfa, Texas.
Ballroom Marfa is proud to present a free concert by guitarist Marisa Anderson at the Ballroom Marfa gallery on April 21, 2014 in Marfa, Texas.
Ballroom Marfa presents a free concert by Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks on May 5, 2014, in Marfa, Texas. Party With Death opens.
As part of MISD's Summer Shakeup program, Ballroom Marfa is hosting Music Moves U, a workshop led by Dr. Kahil El’Zabar and his band, the Ethnic Heritage Ensemble. The class is free to attend and open to all students 10 years and older.
DJ Camp is back! Ballroom Marfa present its popular week-long DJ Camp from June 30 – July 5, 2014 with instructors Faith Gay and Javier Arredondo.
Bonnie "Prince" Billy brings his shambling, country-tinged indie rock to West Texas for an evening performance on July 12.
Ballroom Marfa is proud to present Vidas Perfectas, an all-new, Spanish language version of the classic avant-garde television opera from the 1980s: Robert Ashley's Perfect Lives.
The Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts, Ballroom Marfa and the Public Concern Foundation will bring Marfa Dialogues to St. Louis from July 30 – August 3, 2014 as we continue our examination of artistic practice, climate change science, and civic engagement.
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.