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Prada Marfa, a minimalist, stand-alone building on a desolate highway, is a permanent sculpture by
the Berlin-based artists Michael Elmgreen and Ingar Dragset. Stacy Sodolak for The New York Times
We drifted from one strange experience after another. First we played Ping-Pong
in the local artist Michael Phalen’s (http://www.michaelphelanart.com/) gallery.
We shopped at Ranch Candy (https://www.facebook.com/pages/Ranch-Candy-
Marfa/1168091509918155), an oddities-and-gift shop on the main drag, and
chatted with the shop owner, an amiable guy with wide silver-rimmed glasses. (I
bought an embroidered, vintage Western shirt there for my husband, Andy.)
We stopped later at a gas station to fill up the tank, attempted to pump gas from a
nonworking pump, then quickly realized that it was not a gas station after all —
but an art exhibit. (Instead of prices for gas, the sign read: “ART.” Who knew?)
And that night, we saw an experimental chamber opera, “Pancho Villa From a
Safe Distance,” about the life of the Mexican Revolutionary general Pancho Villa,
at The Crowley Theater (http://crowleytheater.org/), a single-story, weathered
stone building with a curved Spanish Colonial facade; a string of white globe
lights outlined the building in the velvety black sky.
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