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Ballroom Marfa is a creative force in the contemporary arts community. Founded in the spring of 2003 in Marfa, Texas, by Virginia Lebermann and Fairfax Dorn, Ballroom Marfa is non-profit center for ...

Jan. 16—MARFA — Ballroom Marfa is proud to present "Elemental Currents — Material, Memory, and Myth," a group exhibition featuring the work of Christopher Blay, Laddie John Dill, and Virginia L.

On Jan. 10, 1978, the Sex Pistols played at Longhorn Ballroom in something of a local music folklore moment. It was the band’s penultimate stop on their U.S. tour, their last before disbanding ...

In January of 2023, they started the renovation on the Val Air Ballroom. Last winter, they finished them. All through 2024, Sam Summers and company rocked the house, and the Waterbury neighbors didn’t ...

A little dog is turning on the charm with a particular — almost human-like — facial feature in a Beaumont shelter. Bud is a schnauzer mix with deep, expressive eyes; beige snoot and leg ...

Group exhibitions include Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA, Nerman Museum, Overland Park, KS, Ballroom Marfa, Marfa, TX, and Marin MOCA, Marin, CA. Baker is a 2022 Joan Mitchell Fellow, and was an ...

For more than 135 years, people have reported strange lights above the horizon in Marfa, Texas. No-one knows exactly what they are, and that’s what makes them so captivating. Video by Eliot Stein.