This is what my stepmom says about what's going on in Marfa (so you get a local opinion):
The Prada is not a store. It is a false display window. Sitting in a cow pasture LOL!!! with no safe place to stop or pull off of the Highway 90. It is vandalized about every 2 weeks. Even though there is only left shoes there and all the purses are stripped of all insides and unusable. Very highly published fact but they still keep tearing up the building and taking the showy trash. It between Valentine and Van Horn. 46 miles from Marfa. Only about 30 miles from Van Horn. Weird, very weird the entire thing.
Ballroom Marfa!! HAHA!!! Everyone thought that someone was opening a place to go dancing and drink. Where there would be bands that were not "Mexican country players." Nope it is a gallery. With paintings that look like they were done by drunk monkeys that were not allowed to go to the bathroom until it was all finished.
Lots of people coming out here with much more money than good sense. If they need to make money, they won't. But that is of course only my opinion.
i think marfa should be vistited before judged. i've lived here for most of my life and i think it is a wonderful place. the artists who have moved here have began to clean-up our little town of marfa. the town was beginning to look run-down. i am a local...not someone who moved here for the art.
The Prada is just for show...some people don't understand common courtesy and choose to destroy other's property.
Many people have made money coming out here . the foundations and organizations that have been formed have saved the economy for those who agree with it or not