Lake — Erin Shirreff, 2012 Colour video, silent

Board member, artist and awesome guy Matthew Day Jackson just curated a show, Science on the Back End, that opens tomorrow, May 1, at Hauser & Wirth in New York. As Matt says in his curator’s statement (written “from a hotel in Frankfurt unable to sleep”):

I am not a curator. I merely selected the five artists for this exhibition and left to them the decision of which artworks to present. These artists inspire me. Their artistic reality is full, expansive, and not contingent on the studio environment. … I neither suggested nor requested specific works for the show. My interest lies instead in the larger creative impulse that the six of us share and the way in which each one of us processes and reorders our life experience into formal strategies, according to our personal priorities. I believe those formal strategies develop as we systematically gain knowledge through the experience of life every day, and they become a language we use to communicate with each other and the larger world.

The lineup includes five of our personal favorites (and almost all Marfa alums): Larry Bamburg, Marc Ganzglass, Rosy Keyser, Erin Shirreff, and Nick van Woert. Don’t miss it. Tomorrow night, May 1, from 6 to 8 pm. Show runs until June 16. –nicki

Just got the photos back from Feist — what a show. She was so lovely, and left the whole town with a special glow. Special thanks to Lesley Brown for her concert shots, and Alex Marks, who continues his amazing musician Polaroid series for us, against all the odds (see the series here). And thanks again to Marfa Public Radio and Marfa Book Company for making the whole show happen.

And to all poster & Feist lovers: you can buy the latest and greatest Feist poster here. Designed by Simone Rubi, it features the grandson of the chief of the Jumano Indians, one of the first tribes in West Texas. Holla. –nicki

The Crowley Theater. Photo by Lesley Brown.

Feist by Alex Marks

Feist. Photo by Lesley Brown.

Scott Hug, whose collaged pie charts are included in Data Deluge, has a new show right now at Rawson Projects in Brooklyn. Titled Hell to Pay, the show is the second in the gallery’s series of poster projects, in which they invite an artist to design an open-editioned, un-signed poster. Hug designed his posters, pictured above, by remixing found graphics and text from advertising, a process inspired by the little-known California artist/poet/publisher/gallerist/physicist Bern Porter (1911-2004). As Hug puts it in an interview: “Basically, I filter the visual pollution of our printed world via magazines, newspapers, catalogues, junk mail, etc. and export it through a sharpening lens.” Looks good! Up through May 6. More info here.

Well, at least that’s not all it is. Smithsonian recently rated Marfa the 8th best small town in America citing not only Prada Marfa and the mystery lights as draws, but the upcoming DRIVE-IN project as well. Read the article here!

Here’s a sneak peek at rehearsals for our second year of The Reading, featuring Dion Cook’s screenply, Cutter, about a Miami trauma physician who moves to the United States after surviving the horrors of the 1994 Rwanda genocide. We’re pretty stoked to have over 17 actors here from Dallas (!), plus director John S. Davies and Marfa-newcomer Fred Curchack, who’s designing and orchestrating the shadow play (of which you can see a bit in the photos above). It’s going to be pretty amazing. Performances are one day only, this Saturday, 21 April, at 2 pm and 8 pm (come to the matinee and then have your pick of restaurants around town). RSVP here! –nicki

By now, you must know about our Polaroid project, where the amazing and amazingly talented (and patient) photographer, Alex Marks, takes Polaroids of all of our visiting musicians

For At the Drive-In, who played here last Thursday, Alex braved the crowds and the heavies and the very loving moshpit to get these two shots

I will never stop loving this project

–nicki

Just wanted to give a big thanks to
org/archive/event/at-the-drive-in/#event-release”>At the Drive-In for an amazing show, and everyone who came out and shared the night with us — and special nods to Dan Chamberlin, Rob Crowley, Robert Lara, Karen Longshore, JP Schwartz, everyone at the Thunderbird Hotel, and especially Graham Williams and the team at Transmission Events, who made it all possible

We were honored to be involved

A few photos from last night, courtesy of Rob

More photos to come

— nicki

It’s happening

After the show, around 10:30 pm, local metal awesome band LBS — who take their “cues from the early Sabbath days with the speed of Slayer” will play at Lost Horse Saloon

A

NIGHT

TO

REMEMBER

–NICKI

LBS

We are beyond honored to present At the Drive-In with Transmission Events on Thursday, 12 April 2012, at the Capri in Marfa, Texas. Doors at 7 pm. Show at 8 pm. No tickets will be sold at the door. Tickets ($20) only available online.

Please note: Thanks for your support — we are now sold out.

The latest in our Polaroid series: Eleanor Friedberger, as photographed by Polaroid wizard Alex Marks. Favorite project ever. Many thanks to Alex and Eleanor for being such photogenic champs. You can see the whole series, bit by bit, here.