In the interwar years, the base became the headquarters for the Marfa Command, which had replaced the Big Bend District.

In the north and west, clay and sandy loam cover the rolling plains known as the Marfa Plateau and the Highland Country, providing good ranges of grama grasses for the widely acclaimed Highland Herefords.

During World War II Presidio County enjoyed economic prosperity as the home for two military installations-Fort Russell and Marfa Army Airfield.

The Riata house and exteriors for Giant were at Marfa.

Marfa Army Airfield served as a training facility for several thousand pilots during World War II, including the American actor Robert Sterling, before closing in 1945.

Outside of Donald Judd and modern art, Marfa may be most famous for the Marfa lights, visible on clear nights between Marfa and the Paisano Pass when one is facing southwest ( toward the Chinati Mountains ).

Each year, enthusiasts gather for the annual Marfa Lights Festival.

The famous 1956 Warner Bros. film Giant, starring Elizabeth Taylor, Rock Hudson, James Dean, Sal Mineo, Carroll Baker and Dennis Hopper, was filmed in Marfa for two months.

In August 2006, two movie production units used locations in and around Marfa: the film There Will Be Blood, an adaptation of the Upton Sinclair novel Oil !, directed by Paul Thomas Anderson, and the Coen Brothers ' adaptation of the Cormac McCarthy novel No Country for Old Men.

The music video for Diamond Rings and PS I Love You's collaborative single " Leftovers " takes place in Marfa and includes local businesses such as The Get Go and El Cosmico.

* airport code for Marfa Airport in Marfa, Texas

Not only did Saint-Léon and Petipa have their own respective audiences and critics, but also their own ballerinas — Petipa mounted the majority of his works at that time for his wife, the Prima ballerina Mariia Surovshchikova-Petipa, while Saint-Léon mounted the majority of his works for the great ballerina Marfa Muravieva.

* Marfa Mystery Lights – The Secret Machines – A Concert for the UFO's ( A performance conceived and filmed by Charles de Meaux ) ( 2007 ), Les presses du réel

The spareness of his technique often seems more akin to the school known as Minimalism, however, and indeed his closest personal associations were with artists such as Dan Flavin and Donald Judd, the latter of whom wrote a praising essay on Wesley's early work and later set aside a space for him at his complex in Marfa, Texas.

Marfa houses the offices of the Big Bend Sentinel, a weekly newspaper covering the areas of Marfa, Fort Davis, Presidio, and far west Texas.

Shafter is just west of the Big Bend along the highway that goes from Presidio to Marfa.

Some of the smaller West Texas cities and towns include: Alpine, Andrews, Big Spring, Brownfield, Crane, Fort Stockton, Hale Center, Iraan, Kermit, Lamesa, Levelland, Littlefield, Marfa, McCamey, Monahans, Ozona, Pampa, Pecos, Plainview, Post, Rankin, Seminole, Slaton, Snyder, Socorro, Sweetwater, and Van Horn, Texas.

Marfa Independent School District serves eastern Presidio County while Presidio Independent School District serves western Presidio County

Marfa is served by the Marfa Independent School District.

Redford is served by the Marfa Independent School District.

In 1979, with help from the Dia Art Foundation, Judd purchased a 340 acre ( 1. 4 km² ) tract of desert land near Marfa, Texas which included the abandoned buildings of the former U. S. Army Fort D. A. Russell.

Critics also note that the designated " View Park ," a roadside park on the south side of U. S. Route 90 about 9 miles ( 14 km ) east of Marfa, is located at the site of Marfa Army Airfield, where tens of thousands of personnel were stationed between 1942 and 1947, training American and Allied pilots.

The Marfa Army Airfield was constructed nearby and was used as pilot training facility.

Marfa was established in 1883, and the county seat was moved there from Fort Davis in 1885.

Furthermore, The Lannan Foundation has established a writers-in-residency program, a Marfa theater group has formed, and a multi-functional art space called Ballroom Marfa has begun to show art films, host musical performances, and exhibit other art installations.

The base was expanded and renamed Camp Marfa during World War I.

Catherine I (; Yekaterina I Alekseyevna, born,, later Marfa Samuilovna Skavronskaya ) ( – ), the second wife of Peter I of Russia, reigned as Empress of Russia from 1725 until her death.

Seven months later, on 24 February 1682 Fyodor married a second time Marfa Apraksina ( 1667 – 1716 ), daughter of Matvei Vasilievich Apraksin and wife Domna Bogdanovna Lovchikova.

The abbey stood in ruins until 1471, when two sons of Marfa Boretskaya died in a vicious storm ; their bodies were recovered on the beach near the monastery twelve days later.

One block later, the route turns north and leaves Marfa along N. Dean St. North of town, the route passes Marfa Municipal Airport.

A dry line ( also called dew point line, or Marfa front ) is an imaginary line across a continent that separates moist air from an eastern body of water and dry desert air from the west.

According to tradition, the proponent of an alliance with Poland-Lithuania to save the Republic, called the Lithuanian party, was led by Marfa Boretskaya, the wife of Posadnik Isak Boretskii.

Asif Jahi Nizams had patronized them with rewards and there music called Marfa Music got popular which was performed during there official celebrations and ceremonies.

She also hosts an artist-to-artist interview radio show called The Spark with Tift Merritt which is produced by KRTS in Marfa, Texas, and whose guests have included Nick Hornby, Kiki Smith, and poet C. K. Williams among others.

The Marfa AAF and Fort D. A.

Marfa Magazine is a yearly publication distributed out of Marfa Texas, founded and operated by Johnny Calderon, Jr. Marfa Magazine focuses on current issues and general information about Marfa, Alpine, and Fort Davis.

Principal photography began in 1984 at a number of locations, primarily in Texas, including Alpine, Austin, El Paso, Fort Davis, Lajitas, Marfa, Monahans, Pecos, and San Elizario, Texas.

Fort D. A. Russell is the name of an American military installation near Marfa, Texas, that was active from 1911 to 1946.

* Marfa Lights at Fort D. A.

Martin '€™ s work can be found in major public collections in the United States, including the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY ; The Chinati Foundation, Marfa, TX ; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D. C .; Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art ; The Menil Collection, Houston, TX ; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York ; The Museum of Modern Art, New York ; National Gallery of Art, Washington, D. C .; Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City ; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art ; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York ; Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford ; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis ; and Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, among others.

* Judith M. Brueske, Ph. D., " The Marfa Lights, Being a Collection of First-Hand Accounts by People Who Have Seen the Lights Close-Up or in Unusual Circumstances, and Related Material ," Second Revised Edition, Ocotillo Enterprises, P. O.

Chamberlain's work is represented in many major public collections including Chinati Foundation, Marfa, Texas ; Menil Collection, Houston ; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York ; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York ; Museum Ludwig, Cologne ; Tate Modern, London ; Galleria Nazionale d ' Arte Moderna, Rome ; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D. C .; Kunstmuseum Winterthur, Switzerland ; Moderna Museet, Stockholm ; Centre Pompidou, Paris ; Museum Moderner Kunst, Vienna ; Museum Brandhorst, Munich ; Philadelphia Museum of Art ; Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City ; Saint Louis Art Museum ; and Walker Art Center, Minneapolis.