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BIZARRE: Marfa - What They Never Told You

Before scandal, Rep. Tony Gonzales had complicated relationship with his West Texas constituents

The moderate Republican’s votes on gun control and marriage equality upset the region’s most conservative voters, but local officials said they’re grateful for the work he did on public safety and health.

The Texas Tribune

Leaky roofs, collapsed walls, mega debts: when art’s master minimalist Donald Judd tried architecture

Weary of the New York scene, and keen to focus on architecture, the artist started buying up properties to play with in a tiny Texas town. Trouble was, he couldn’t stop. We take the tour of his Marfa creations

The Guardian - UK

Trame Paris’ algorithmically generated and handcrafted furnishings, debuted in Texas

During Marfa’s Art Blocks Weekend event, gallery and studio Trame Paris launched new collections highlighting the potential of controlled randomness, generated through code but carried out by master craftspeople

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Volunteering at music festivals supported my post-retirement trip to the US and Canada

Working in exchange for tickets from Vancouver to Texas was an ideal way for a 60-year-old solo traveller to find friends, fun and an instant community

The Guardian - UK

An epic two-week road trip around Texas — from Austin to Dallas

Meg Honigmann doesn’t eat meat and she’s terrified of horse riding, but a fortnight travelling through the Lone Star State and the cowboy capital of America was the trip of a lifetime...

Evening Standard

A Paris to Marfa March for Reproductive Rights

A West Texas teenager says she’s only begun to fight for access to livesaving care. From Editor-at-Large Gayle Reaves.

Texas Observer

Sophi’s Murder and the Unanswered Calls for Justice

Relatives of Sophi blame Danny Sullivan and seek justice. Homicides involving alleged domestic violence are often mishandled in Texas.

Texas Observer

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Donald Judd’s home and studio in New York: celebrating 10 years

The late Donald Judd’s home and studio in New York opened to the public in June 2013, after a three-year restoration process; we celebrate the occasion’s 10-year anniversary by revisiting our story from the archive

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OPINION - Head to deepest Texas to see the cult of Trump in all its sheer weirdness

By November 2018, Donald Trump was already well into his presidency. Everything many Americans feared had come true, and there was a copper-bottomed combovered nincompoop running their country. That month, I took my elder daughter to Marfa, in Texas, to see the extraordinary arts hub there: the Donald Judd Foundation,…

Evening Standard

Hispanic students were once segregated at this school. Now it will be a historic site

Former students at the Blackwell School in Marfa, Texas, who were once banned from speaking Spanish, have worked for years to preserve the school's history.

WEKU

Congress makes historic segregated Blackwell School in Texas a national park site

DALLAS — The House of Representatives approved The Blackwell School National Historic Site Act on Tuesday to make the site of Blackwell School in Marfa a national park site.

Tribune News Service

Calling All Marfans: Mystery Lights Inspire Annual Celebration

The annual Marfa Lights Festival brings together artists, tourists, and even Indigenous residents of the Big Bend region.

Texas Observer

Congress acts to save segregated 'Mexican' school

DALLAS — The U.S. Senate unanimously passed legislation co-sponsored by Sen. Alex Padilla, D-Calif., to turn a formerly segregated, "Mexican" school in west Texas into a historic site, the first of its kind.

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