Images from Sunday night’s Beach House/Holy Shit show at the Crowley Theater. All photos courtesy of the wonderful Lesley Brown.

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Just in case you’re not joining the army of 60 Minutes tourists who are expected here in our quiet Far West Texas town any day now, you can now take a virtual tour of our gallery space and Rashid Johnson’s New Growth solo exhibition via Google Maps.

And if you do come by IRL, just a reminder: New Growth is on view until 7 July 2013 — and the Ballroom gallery is open with free admission Wednesday through Saturday, 10a–6p and Sunday, 10a–3p.

Roman Empire 228-345 AD (East), 2012, hand-stitched cotton, 71″ x 53″

Ballroom alumna Anna Von Mertens‘ solo exhibition Gold! And Other Fallen Empires opens this Friday at the Boston Center for the Arts, and she writes with word of myriad Marfa connections:

“First off, the title gets its spark from the Gold Rush work exhibited as part of Data Deluge and which Cat Clifford has generously agreed to loan for the exhibition. The Ballroom Marfa diptych will be the first piece viewers see as they enter BCA.

In the main gallery is my latest series Migrations, Invasions, Plagues and Empires which also has a Ballroom connection: when I first started researching ideas for my Ballroom commission I was reading about Texas drought cycles and came across several studies linking climate change and the fall of empires through the study of tree rings. While I was hoping to create a piece in time for Data Deluge, I had to adapt to the timeline of the researchers who were generously collaborating with me. So a year later the series finally exists, and all thanks to Ballroom.”

Anna Von Mertens
Gold! And Other Fallen Empires
BOSTON CENTER FOR THE ARTS, MILLS GALLERY
April 19-June 16, 2013

Opening Reception
Friday, April 19, 6-8 pm

Artist Talk with Guest Curator Kirsten Swenson
Saturday, May 11, 4 pm

On view for the first time is Migrations, Invasions, Plagues and Empires, a series of large scale black-and-white quilted panels whose stitch patterns of historic tree ring cross-sections are derived from studies linking climate variability and periods of human instability. Working for the last two years with international dendrochronologists, Von Mertens culled images from their archives. The events represented in the series–the Fall of the Roman Empire, the Aztec Conquest, the Black Death, and Anasazi migration in the 12th century–correlate to periods of drought recorded by the tree rings. The tree rings (and hence the tree) become a stand-in for empire while being, as W.H. Auden puts it in his poem The Fall of Rome, “altogether elsewhere.”

This survey exhibition will also include a 2012 commission for Ballroom Marfa as well as a selection of aura interpretations of iconic paintings from Von Mertens’ 2009 series Portraits.

Additional images and project statement for Migrations, Invasions, Plagues and Empires can be seen here:
http://www.annavonmertens.com/portfolio.php

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As part of their visit to Marfa, 60 Minutes stopped by Prada Marfa, declaring Elmgreen & Dragset’s installation to be “the most bizarre spot in these parts.” Skip ahead to the 11:35 mark in the above video for a brief interview with Boyd Elder, the sculpture’s caretaker.

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From “The Nothing Act”, a profile of Alex Pearlstein’s recent work in Art in America:

“The circling camera of The Drawing Lesson was a device Pearlstein also used for her 2008 show at the Kitchen. Having created the four-channel video After the Fall in the venue’s black box theater downstairs, she then showed the piece in the white box gallery upstairs, alluding to the differing modes of performance in theater and art. Filmed using a set of four cameras, the video first shows a couple on the verge of having sex, and then the interplay between two groupings of actors, one in pink-and-red costumes and the other in gold-and-black. A couple of the actors feign injury from altercations. The way the actors are divided by costume and actions harkens back to Pearlstein’s earlier, more allegorical work. But the constant observation of the actors by the camera, as well as the greater immediacy of their connection with the viewer, makes the work feel more elemental. Building on such effects, Pearlstein went on to adapt the premise of the musical A Chorus Line (the 1975 play and 1985 film) for her video Talent (2009). A Chorus Line, which ran for over 6,000 performances, setting a Broadway record, is about actors auditioning for parts in a new musical. They laugh, cry, sing, dance and tell heartbreaking stories about themselves and their careers. Pearlstein stripped the musical of its songs and dialogue, leaving only the wondrous, spontaneous ephemera of actors at an audition: waiting, hopeful, bored or yearning for attention. At one point they share a loaf of bread. They turn their acting personas on and off and mingle occasionally, though they mostly stay in line as the camera moves in a parallel track back and forth across them.”

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Alix Pearlstein is the featured artist in this year’s Artists’ Films International, a program organized by Ballroom in conjunction with London’s Whitechapel Gallery, opening 19 July 2013 in Marfa. Read more here.

From Big Bend Now:

“Award winning Tejano accordionist AJ Castillo stars as the 27th annual Marfa Lights Festival concert returns to Vizcaino Park on Labor Day Weekend.

The Marfa Chamber of Commerce hosts the annual festival, and this year the chamber is planning a great event.

This year’s event is co-presented by Ballroom Marfa. The arts and culture organization is partnering with the Marfa Chamber of Commerce to help fund and organize the concert, which takes place on the future site of the Ballroom Drive-In, an ambitious project that will reestablish the 21-acre Vizcaino Park as a state-of-the-art performance venue and community gathering space.

Three-time award winner AJ Castillo is known for his unique accordion sound and style, his energetic live performances, and his extraordinary custom accordions.”

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Krallice guitarist, Ballroom pal, OG hesher and all-around ace shredder Mick Barr serenades diners into infinity at the Ballroom Marfa 10 Year Anniversary Benefit Dinner. Video via Jeffrey Brodsky.

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Images of From the Desert to the City, Ballroom Marfa’s 10 Year Benefit Auction and Dinner from Hanuk.

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Fairfax Dorn. Photograph by BFANYC.COM

“New York gallerygoers, on-the-cusp artists and fashion notables flooded Chelsea’s Center 548 on Monday for a night of performances—both musical and non—and art auctions to benefit Ballroom Marfa, the highly-esteemed nonprofit space for contemporary art, film and music based in Marfa, Texas. Over 40 artists, including Liz Cohen, Solange Azagury-Partridge and Maryam Amiryani, participated in the silent and live auctions held during cocktails and dinner, respectively—some creating new pieces for the event.

The gallery celebrates 10 years of supporting exceptional artists, filmmakers and musicians, but the benefit (which raised $765,000 this year) extends beyond Texas’ art scene: Fairfax Dorn, Ballroom Marfa’s co-founder and executive director, told DuJour before dinner, “We’re going to continue doing what we’ve been doing, but also expand our Marfa dialog,” the forefront of which is a focus on climate change and environmental issues through programs involving grants and partnerships in New York this fall.”

Read more and peruse the photo gallery at DuJour.