We’re planning a trip to Chinati, and I’m wondering if anyone has recommendations for where to stay in Marfa, Alpine, or Fort Davis. (I know, I know, we missed the big Open House, including the performance of the fantastic Yo La Tengo… but you gotta go when you can get away).
[update: we’ve narrowed it down to staying in Marfa, either the Hotel Paisano or the newly opened Thunderbird. Maybe. Unless Alpine or Fort Davis would be better.]
We just got back from a whimsical, rainy wedding in the Taos Ski Valley. Somewhere in Arizona on I-40 — clouds.
Nice to see that those Brits appreciate art (and honky tonk) in the Lone Star State: Texas — The State of Art.
The Dallas/Ft. Worth Metroplex certainly has the museum collections, but it’s too bad there isn’t more of a gallery scene in either city. This is perhaps due, in part, to the fact that there aren’t that many strong MFA programs in the area, particularly in comparison to the number of programs in cities of comparable size (Chicago, for example). Houston and San Antonio (sadly unmentioned in the Guardian article) are where it’s at when it comes to vital art-making communities in Texas.
[Via: ArtsJournal].
The Menil Collection, Houston, TX, Renzo Piano, architect
I was reminded how much I love Houston while we were marveling over the Renzo Piano exhibit at LAMCA in West Hollywood last weekend. Houston is very much like Los Angeles — both are highway towns with abundant traffic and smog, and relative proximity to the ocean. Both cities are swamped with the excesses of plenty and of poverty. Where LA has its celebrity royals, Houston has the sultans of oil. Both cities also have first-rate culture that can take visitors by surprise. While few people come to Los Angeles just to visit MOCA (despite its desperate wish that they would), even fewer people travel to the so-called Third Coast just to see art. But they should.
“I regret to have to be laid away in a foreign country.” -Oliver Loving, “The Dean of Texas Trail Drivers,” 1812-1867