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But Marfa also had a dusty, timeworn Texas feel. Turquoise pickup trucks were
parked on the street. Most buildings had midcentury Spanish facades. (Marfa is
about 60 miles from the Mexican border.) A Union Pacific train ran through the

middle of town. We strolled past cattle feeders and beat-up hardware stores with
nothing in the window but a deer head and portable gas cans for sale. And if

anything speaks old-school cinematic Texas history, it’s the movie “Giant,”
starring James Dean and Elizabeth Taylor, filmed here in 1955. Life-size photos
from the movie line the 1930s-era Hotel Paisano.

Marfa Burrito is popular with locals and visitors. Stacy Sodolak for The New York Times

Marfa is an eccentric and remarkable mix of artists and cowboys. Their

seemingly comfortable coexistence is most likely owed to the vision of the artist
Donald Judd. Judd, who died in 1994, is the magnet of art pilgrimages to Marfa.

In 1971, a successful minimalist artist, he moved to Marfa with his children to
escape the New York art scene, turning abandoned offices of the United States
Army Quartermaster Corps into his home and personal work space. La Mansana
de Chinati, informally known as The Block

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