Art World Mecca Marfa Offers Imaginative Getaways
Henri Stout Dirt Real Estate EditorThose eager to flee the COVID-infested confines of crowded cities might consider the remote art-centric hipster’s paradise, Marfa, Texas, as a possible destination. Deep in the Chihuahuan high desert, Marfa was colonized in 1979 by minimalist sculptor Donald Judd, who purchased a compound of decommissioned military buildings and transformed them into austere exhibition spaces for art by he and his friends.