Author of The Last Prince of the Mexican Empire, etc. |
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Apart from El Paso, Marfa is the town
best known outside Far West Texas.Other towns in this vast area
of high desert plains, mountains and /or river valleys include
Alpine, Ruidosa, Candelaria, Fort Davis, Fort Stockton, Lajitas,
Marathon, Redford, Pecos, Presidio, Sierra Blanca, Terlingua,
Valentine, and Van Horn. Herewith a page of links, to be frequently updated. |
Marfa Basics Fifty Years of Movie Magic in Marfa,
Texas and more to come |
Art in Marfa & Environs Arber & Son Editions | Valerie Arber | Ayn Foundation | Baxter Gallery | Ballroom Marfa | Chinati Foundation | Dumitrescu Gallery | James H. Evans | Exhibitions 2 D | Fancy Ponyland | Field Work Marfa | Galleri Urbane | Martha Hughes Studio | Inde/Jacobs/ Marfa | Judd Foundation | Lannan Foundation Residency Program | Marfa Contemporary Art + Education | Marfa Studio of Arts | Allison V. Smith Photography | The Tiny Foundation | Wrong Mary Baxter, Painting the Big Bend My podcast with artist Mary Baxter recorded in her studio in Marfa, October 2012. Mary Bones on the Lost Art Colony My podcast interview with Mary Bones, curator of the exhibit "Lost Colony: Texas Regionalist Paintings" at Sul Ross State University's Museum of the Big Bend Avram Dumitrescu, An Artist in Alpine My podcast interview with artist and illustrator Avram Dumitrescu. New York Times Magazine series: "Real Artists of Marfa" by Vincent Dilio and Chris Wallace > January 9, 2012: Foundation for Jammable Resources: John Rayburn, Carlos Lujan, John C. and Anthony DeSimone >January 16, 2012 Sam Schonzeit >January 23, 2012: Ann Marie Nafziger >January 30, 2012: Adam Bork >February 6, 2012: Solid Waste: Jonathan Lujan, Dione Acosta, Erik Quintana, and Richard "Chachi" Covarrubias >February 13, 2012: Cobra Rock Boot Company: Logan Caldbeck and Colt Miller >February 22, 2012 Jennifer Lane >March 5, 2012: David Hollander National Public Radio: "Marfa, Texas: An Unlikely Art Oasis in a Desert Town" by Neda Ulaby Area Authors ----> Many more links to come... Lonn Taylor Author of Texas, My Texas, among many other works, and columnist for the Big Bend Sentinel Peter Behrens Profiled in the New York Times: >A Moth to Marfa's Flame by Penelope Green >A Winter Home in the West Texas Desert Blogs Mostly Marfa David Beebe's Online Journal Cowboy Poetry Texas Cowboy Poetry Gathering Music Many more links to come... Washtub Jerry |
& Environs (For links to local businesses, be sure to visit the chamber of commerce websites) Alpine Alpine, Texas Chamber of Commerce Chihuahuan Desert Nature Center Museum of the Big Bend Sul Ross State University Sul Ross State University's Center for Big Bend Studies >Interview with archaeologist Richard Walter (Marfa Public Radio, Jan 11, 2010) Sul Ross State University's Archives of the Big Bend Big Bend National Park and Big Bend Ranch State Park Big Bend National Park Ross Maxwell Scenic Drive A video that shows you the actual drive, speeded up Driving through the Chisos A video of the drive (lordkev99) Charles Angell in the Big Bend My podcast interview witn Charles Angell, owner of Angell Expeditions NORTH AND NORTHEAST Fort Davis and Davis Mountains Fort Davis, Texas Chamber of Commerce Texas State Historical Society: The Davis Mountains Davis Mountains State Park Davis Mountains Scenic Drive A video that shows you the actual drive, speeded up (takemytrip.com) McDonald Observatory Fort Stockton Historic Fort Stockton Annie Riggs Memorial Museum Marathon Marathon Chamber of Commerce Marathon Webcam Pecos West of the Pecos Museum West of the Pecos Rodeo |
SOUTH AND SOUTHWEST Sierra Diablo |
BIG BEND Terlingua Links to be posted soon... |
Trans-Pecos (General Area) Get Acquainted with Big Bend History and Archaeology (Center for Big Bend Studies, Sul Ross University, Alpine TX) Rock Art Foundation (leads tours in the Lower Pecos) |
Local Media Alpine Avalanche Alpine Daily Planet Cenizo Journal Big Bend Now (Big Bend Sentinel) Marfa.org News & Views Marfa Public Radio 93.5 FM Local Bloggers Alpine Daily Planet Autoliterate (Peter Behrens) Judy Morgan Glenn Justice's Texas History Blog Mostly Marfa: Greetings from Mary Lou Texas Mountain Trail Daily Photos Megan Wilde's The Wilde Life: Adventures in Gardening, Critter Care and Rural Living in West Texas Favorite Book Shops Cactus Book Shop (A bit far east, in San Angelo) Front Street Books (Alpine and Marathon) Fort Davis National Historical Site Excellent bookstore with many titles on local history Marfa Book Company Wide ranging and eclectic |
Bibliography (under construction) Ragged Horde Reach Marfa (about the Huerta Army), January 9, 1914 Recent Newspaper and Magazine Articles about Marfa & Environs and its Denizens *Sterry Butcher, "Judd's Ranches: Sanctuaries for the Artist's Life and Work," Big Bend Sentinel, October 6, 2011 *Cox, Jennifer, Cultural Desert: The Art Scene of Marfa, Texas, The Guardian, May 14, 2011 *Cureton, Emily Joe, Bootmaker Sets Up Shop in Marfa, Big Bend Now, May 12, 2011 *Dilio, Vincent and Chris Wallace, "The Real Artists of Marfa: Foundation for Jammable Resources New York Times Magazine, January 9, 2012 *Dilio, Vincent and Chris Wallace, "The Real Artists of Marfa: Sam Schonheit" New York Times Magazine, January 16, 2012 (first in a series, see individual links above under "Art and Artists in Marfa & Environs) *Egan, Maura, Wanderlust: Marfa, Texas, New York Times Magazine, June 5, 2009 *Di Piero, W.S., "Marfa Moments," San Diego Reader, May 16, 2012 *Patoksi, Joe Nick, Far Out Far West Texas, The Texas Observer, December 16, 2005 *Rentería, Ramón, "Old Time Marfa Lives on in Memories," El Paso Times, May 18, 2012 -----"Metamorphosis in Marfa: Newcomers Offer Infusions of Arts, Enthusiasm," El Paso Times, May 13, 2012 *Rodewald, James, "Way Out West: Gardens of Marfa," Garden Design, December 29, 2010 *Suqi, Rima, "Asked and Answered: Flavin Judd" New York Times, May 5, 2001 An interview with the President of the Judd Foundation |
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