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1/26/2018                      Marfa Road Trip: Thelma and Louise, With a Happier Ending - The New York Times















































          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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